Studio Aalto
{{Infobox building
| name = Studio Aalto
| native_name=
| image = Aalto studio.JPG
| caption =Alvar Aalto’s studio in Munkkiniemi, Helsinki
| former_names =
| building_type =
| architectural_style =
| structural_system =
| location = Tiilimäki 20, Munkkiniemi, Helsinki
| owner = Alvar Aalto Office, Alvar Aalto Foundation (since 1984)
| current_tenants =
| landlord =
| coordinates = {{ coord|60|11|53.7|N|24|52|10.13|E|type:landmark_region:FI-18|display=inline,title }}
| start_date =
| completion_date = 1955
| demolition_date =
| height =
| diameter =
| other_dimensions =
| Gross floor area =
| Cubic volume =
| Contractor =
| architect = Alvar Aalto
| structural_engineer =
| services_engineer =
| civil_engineer =
| other_designers =
| quantity_surveyor =
| awards =
}}
The Studio Aalto is a house in the Tiilimäki neighbourhood of Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, which Alvar Aalto designed during 1955–56 to be the studio of his architect bureau.{{cite web | url = http://www.museo-opas.fi/fi/museo/alvar-aallon-ateljee | title = Uudenmaan museo-opas (’Uusimaa Museum Guide’) | last = | first = | date = | work = Museo-opas.fi | publisher = | accessdate = 2014-07-23}} Due to a large number of commissions, the office needed more space in which to work. The studio is said to be one of his best buildings from the 1950s. Near the studio there is also Villa Aalto, the home (and previous office) of the Aaltos. Both the studio and the Villa are now part of the Alvar Aalto Museum, and they are open to the public.{{cite web | url = http://www.alvaraalto.fi/studioaalto.htm | title = Studio Aalto | last = Sippo | first = Hanni | date = | work = Alvar Aalto Museum website | publisher = | accessdate = 2014-07-23}} The Alvar Aalto Academy and Alvar Aalto Museum Architectural Heritage Department are housed in Studio Aalto.{{cite web | url = http://www.alvaraalto.fi/about_us.htm | title = About us | last = | first = | date = | work = Alvar Aalto Museum website | publisher = | accessdate = 2014-07-23}}
Architecture
The building is designed to be used as an architect's office. It is not a conventional office building. Aalto is reported to have said that “architectural art can not be created in an office-like environment.”
The façade is built in plain style, in white-painted, lightly rendered brickwork. The closed-in mass of the building conceals a garden shaped like an amphitheatre in its inner courtyard.
The slender mass of the office wing is in white-painted, lightly rendered brickwork. From the working space upstairs, large windows give a view to both east and west.
An extension was built in 1963, with a kitchen and a dining space. These two were referred to as “the taverna”.{{cite web | url = http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/alvar-aalto-office-house-tour-102153 | title = Studio Aalto: Alvar Aalto's Design Office | last = | first = | date = 2009-11-23 | work = Apartmenttherapy.com | publisher = | accessdate = 2014-07-23}} In the courtyard there is an amphitheatre-like small space, the steps being built out of natural slate.
Alvar Aalto ran the office until his death in 1976. After that, the office continued under the leadership of Elissa Aalto until 1994. The building came into the custodianship of the Alvar Aalto Foundation in 1984 and today it houses the Alvar Aalto Foundation, the Alvar Aalto Academy and the Alvar Aalto Museum Architectural Heritage.
Gallery
File:WP 20140419 002.jpg|Exterior
File:Studio Aalto, court yard.jpg|Courtyard
File:Studio Aalto's court yard.jpg|Courtyard
image:Studio Aalto, Munkkiniemi, Helsinki.jpg|Entrance doors
File:Studio Aalto 2023 17.jpg|Entry plate
File:Studio Aalto.jpg|Upstairs working space
File:Studio Aalto 2023 02.jpg|Interior with Alvar Aalto desk
File:Studio Aalto 2023 05.jpg|Blueprints
File:Studio Aalto 2023 06.jpg|Projects show room
File:Studio Aalto 2023 10.jpg|Desks with samples
File:Studio Aalto 2023 16.jpg|Cafeteria
File:Studio Aalto 2023 14 lamp.jpg|Grenade lamp
File:Studio Aalto 2023 03.jpg|Coat hanger & luggage rack made of plywood
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [https://www.alvaraalto.fi/en/location/studio-aalto/ Studio Aalto on the Alvar Aalto Foundation website]
- [http://www.istv.fi/asuminen/vid-1288414716623.html ISTV: Alvar Aallon ateljee avasi ovensa vierailijoille (‘Studio Aalto opened its doors to visitors’ (video))]
{{Commons category-inline}}
{{Authority control}}
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1936
Category:Alvar Aalto buildings
Category:Buildings and structures in Helsinki
Category:Modernist architecture in Finland