💣 OOPEAA Wins Multi-functional Church and Social Housing Proposal in Helsinki
OOPEAA WINS MULTI-FUNCTIONAL CHURCH AND SOCIAL HOUSING PROPOSAL IN HELSINKI
OOPEAA, Lujatalo
CONSTRUCTION
Oopeaa, Lujatalo
PROJECT YEAR
2020
LOCATION
Tikkurila, 01300 Vantaa, Finland
AREA
15225.0 m2
DESIGN TEAM
Kazunori Yamaguchi, Juha Pakkala, Tanja Vallaster, Hanna Jahkanen, Timo Etula, Liisa Heinonen
OOPEAA and Lujatalo worked together to design the winning proposal for a new multi-functional church and social housing project for Tikkurila, Helsinki entitled Church in the City. The project is unique in the way that the architect, builder, and client participated in a highly collaborative design process.
The new church will be centrally located while relating to the urban fabric of eastern Helsinki. Because Tikkurila is the business center of Vantaa, Church in the City will incorporate office and meeting spaces to better serve the community it occupies.
The project will also adjoin 11,700 square meters of social and student housing. These 185 units, called Bethania Housing, are planned be built simultaneously with Church in the City.
While Church in the City will be Tikkurila’s newest landmark, its interior spaces intend to be at a more intimate, calm human scale.
The main church hall will have the capability to seat 500 parishioners or be divided to entertain smaller, concurrent events. Church facilities will include: a café, a store, an outdoor gathering space and workrooms for up to 143 people.
