Kuopio (FI) winner
Kuutti Halinen (FI)
Anssi Lauttia
Anssi Lauttia (FI)
T.+358415494448
Tuomas Raikamo (FI)
anssi.lauttia@hotmail.com
architects
294 Savo nueva Team point of view Savo nueva consists of the new Health Campus with residential quarters around it. Both are linked to Kuopio city centre via a new pedestrian bridge. Meandering housing blocks on both sides of the railway (Hatsala Hill & North west Hatsala) enhance urban quality in the east-west axis. Former Savonia University of Applied Sciences campus is being converted to a Health Campus. The main objective is to provide housing and wellness services for both elderly people and students, who share similar living requirements, providing synergistic and flexible advantages for both. The Health Campus is also a cultural hub. The former sports hall is renovated into a multi-purpose hall, which can serve as a venue for sports and cultural events. The Health Campus is part of the new public attractions for outside visitors.
Masterplan
View from pedestrian bridge to Health Campus
Jury point of view The three blocks containing apartment buildings as well as townhouses on Hatsala Hill, just south of and parallel to the railway, together with the bridge over the railway and its continuation as the “Health Bazaar”, form one of the competition’s most interesting and original urban ensembles of the competition. The wide bridge over the railway that going north turns into the Health Bazaar has the potential to become one of the most handsome public spaces in Kuopio. This “health axis” also provides the programmatic “meat” for the new area.
