The design area is located by the railway, at the junction of City of Oulu’s urban fabric, where the low and small-scale district of Puu-Raksila meets with the more high-rising city centre. The design joins together these two different scales and construction methods, which, at the same time, creates an areal entity with a distinctive and attractive identity.
Team: Ilmari Lahdelma,Rainer Mahlamäki, Janne Pihlajaniemi, Kari Nykänen, Jukka Savolainen, Petri Saarelainen, Teemu Seppälä, Laura Iivarinen, Heidi Siitonen, Taavi Henttonen, Joona Hulmi, Julius Seniunas, Cristian Stoian, Hanna Kosunen, Ville Rautiainen.
Landscape architecture: Maisema-arkkitehtitoimisto Näkymä Oy
Traffic Planner: Plaana Oy
Cost Consultant and Real Estate: Rakennusinsinööritoimisto Rimako Oy
Kastelli Community Centre is a place for learning, education, sports and culture.
The many users of the Centre include the comprehensive school, upper secondary school for youth and adults and a library. There are also facilities for the adult education and a youth centre. Variety of sport halls of different sizes serve athletic clubs after school days. The largest sports hall with 800 seats is used also for floor ball, basketball and volleyball games in the national league level.
Designers / competition phase: Authors: Arkkitehtitoimisto Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Oy / Ilmari Lahdelma, Rainer Mahlamäki, Working Group: Petri Saarelainen (architect SAFA), Sampsa Palva (architect SAFA), Teemu Seppälä (architect SAFA), Miguel Silva (architect SAFA), Leila Hyttinen (building draughtsman), Helsingin opetusvirasto / Kaisu Kärkkäinen (pedagogic expert), Insinööritoimisto Magnus Malmberg Oy / Eero Pekkarinen (DI, structural design), Masu Planning / Malin Blomqvist (Landscape architect)
Project Architect: Petri Saarelainen, Maria Jokela, Mikko Jakonen, Juho Vuolteenaho, Sampsa Palva, Leila Hyttinen, Alli Bur, Valter Rutanen, Anis Souissi, Teemu Pirinen, Taina Silmujärvi