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4| SAUKONLAITURI PARKING FACILITY
HELSINKI, FINLAND
COMMISSION. 2016-2019 (Completed)
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ALA Architects
The new Saukonlaituri parking garage is situated in the vacated old cargo port and dock yard area in Jätkäsaari, right by downtown Helsinki. The area will house 17,000 people and workplaces for another 6,000. Since the underground construction of parking below sea level would be too expensive, the city is developing a series of architecturally ambitious above ground parking facilities for the area.
The new Saukonlaituri parking garage consists of six circuits of parking around a central courtyard forming a light well. The southern side of the building is designed using a series of planted 'switchbacks', allowing residents to hike up to their cars across the sand and seaside grassed terraces/ roofs. The facade is made of burnt clay bars in varying hues of natural sand.
Project Involvement:
Concept studies, early massing (both digital and analogue modelling)). Facade development involving digital modelling and visualisations. Elevation drawings.
