Designed at Big Room: Concrete Structure of the Year
An 11-storey rental apartment building by VVO has been completed next to the Rastila metro station in Helsinki. Its special features include a carpooling service to reduce the need for parking spaces, as well as cantilevered balconies designed using the Big Room method. The project was chosen as the Concrete Structure of the Year in 2016.
Two-week pipe renovation
In autumn 2016, the pipe renovation project in the Satumaanpolku housing cooperative became the most famous renovation in the country. This pilot scheme was implemented using the new Fira Agile model, and the entire project was completed in two weeks. The pipe renovation project was designed and implemented in cooperation with the housing cooperative, and it won an innovation award at Housing Fair Finland in 2017.
A city never stops. It lives and grows with its people. New city structures always create new forms of community.
Construction affects our daily lives. It determines how we live, where we go and how we spend our free time. We need – and we deserve – better buildings. We can make a difference by listening to people and making the construction process more transparent.
Let’s build better cities together.
Palvelut
Verstas workshops
In construction, projects often consist of a chain of actions carried out by different parties, and the builders don’t necessarily ever meet any of the future residents. At Workshop, we will turn this around: we invite all parties to design spaces and their future uses together, right from the start.
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