A small seaside building, designed and then actually built, one to one, by the studio that drew it.
This was a design/build studio: faculty and students designed the kiosk together and then constructed it. The initial concept changed a great deal before anything was cut. It stands in Hanko, the small seaside town at the southernmost tip of Finland, and in keeping with the town it is built of wood — timber-framed, with spruce cladding.
The building was made in parts, mostly by students with faculty and staff helping, and then transported to the site. The cladding is cut into tall interlocking shapes, which does something we did not fully anticipate until dark: at night the light comes through it and the whole kiosk reads as a lantern.
Helsinki University of Technology, Wood Program · timber frame, spruce cladding · Hanko, Finland · 2008