Kannisto School in Vantaa, Finland by LINJA ARCHITECTS LTD.

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Kannisto School is the building for primary school, daycare centre, local community centre and local dental care. School is situated in the Marja-Vantaa area, which is the most significant new urban residential and business area to be emerged within the Helsinki Region. It will offer homes for some 30.000 inhabitants and 25.000 jobs in the future.

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• Architects: LINJA ARCHITECTS LTD.
• Project: Kannisto School
• Location: Vantaa, Finland
• Client: City of Vantaa
• Software used: designed mainly with AutoCad. 3D modelling with SketchUp.

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Kannisto school offers these services to the inhabitants moving to these residential areas in the future.

Site is part of larger park area between residential areas and commercial centre.

On the east side of the building is situated one family houses, whereas west side offers space for soccer field. On the south side there will be large leasure park.

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Kannisto school offers spaces for 500 pupils and day care is for 100 children. There will be second phase and after that there will be almost 1000 children spending their daytime.

The building is partly two storeys and partly three storeys high. The wave- shaped roof follows this massing. Curves like on the eaves are used also on underside of west entrance and suspended ceilings inside.

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The wedge-shaped building form greates spaces for the playgrounds on the west side of the building while the east side of the building follows the border of the site.

The main materials used on fasade are Swisspearl panels and handmade dark brick with black pointing. Four different colors on the panels were chosen to give playful look for the building.

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The colors from fasade are transformed to the indoor colors as well. Floors are slightly green and playful elements are used on main halls. The main lobby / dining hall is almost entirely white but it is opened to the green environment through large glass walls. Also handmade brick is used indoors.

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LINJA ARCHITECTS LTD

INTRODUCTION

LINJA ARCHITECTS LTD is an architect’s office founded in 2006.

Architects Timo Koljonen, Ville Niskasaari and Esa Paajanen are joint partners.

LINJA ARCHITECTS LTD is one of the biggest architect offices in Finland. The company employs 30 people, 17 of which are university-trained architects. The firm has two locations in Oulu and Helsinki.

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Our company is a member of The Association of Finnish Architects’ Offices (ATL).

• “All of the partners graduated from the University of Oulu in the same year, so we have known each other and worked together as architects since 1992. Ever since our student days we dreamed about starting our own architect’s office, and in 2006 we decided to finally establish our own firm,” explains Timo Koljonen.

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The firm’s work covers every aspect in the field of architectural design, with projects covering all phases of both new building and renovation design, in addition to land use design, city planning and various development plans. In association with their assorted projects, Linja Architects Ltd also provides interior design and environmental design services, among others.

Designs from Linja Architects Ltd have been featured in several professional journals in Finland and abroad. Over the last four years, the office has gained seven prize-winning awards in architecture competitions.

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The firm’s customers range from public institutions, construction companies and businesses to private individuals. Linja Architects Ltd individually chooses the appropriate design methods and tools for each project in order to best meet the needs of the assignment and customer in question, providing BIM services as well as visualisation and animation services on several different software formats, for example.

• Koljonen describes the firm’s working methods: “We approach every design project with an open and innovative attitude. In each we strive to attain a standard of superior quality, regardless of the scope of the project at hand.”

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Tags: Finland, Vantaa

Categories: Autocad, School, sketch up

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