The Idea of Building

Thought and action in the design and production of buildings

 

 

 

 

 


 

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The Aalto Atelier, Helsinki, Finland

 

architect's office for himself, designed by Alvar Aalto, on a suburban site. The site slopes down from the road and one enters at the lower level. There is a secondary entrance direct to Aalto's own work space. The stair to the upper level takes one to the main office and to Aalto's own work space (which looks down the garden through the curved wall). The garden is an amphitheatre, formed by the walls and by literalizing the natural contours of the ground.

 

 

 

 

 

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Aalto's own work space.

 

Note the secondary entrance, the high window (at right) and the rooflight in front of the short, free- standing wall. Photo: Leonardo Mosso, courtesy the Museum of Finnish Architecture.

 

 

 

 

 

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