Parviainen Architects

ABB Strömberg Park

ABB Strömberg Park
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ABB Strömberg Park

Parviainen Architects

YEAR
2019

CATEGORY
Office Buildings, Renovation, Offices Interiors

MANUFACTURERS
Autodesk, Elam Oy, Act 3d, Skan-mikael Oy

AREA
30000 m²

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Bratislav Toskovic, Agneta Huuhtanen

WORKSPACE DESIGN
Workspace Oy

LOCATION
Vaasa, Finland

DESIGN TEAM
Tea Savolainen (Interior Architect), Iida Nylund (Interior Architect), Albina Hakkarainen (Project Architect), Eija Raunio (Project Architect), Tero Pulkkinen (Bim Coordinator), Merja Tanska (Assistant Designer), Hannu Kymäläinen (Assistant Designer), Tijana Pesic (Assistant Designer), Milla Alhonoja (Assistant Designer), Astria Exell (Interior Architect), Panu Rimmi (3d Visualization), Jyri Jernström (3d Visualization)

CLIENTS
Abb Oyj

HVAC & ELECTRICAL DESIGN
Granlund Oy

STRUCTURAL DESIGN
Contria Oy

FIRE CONSULTANT
L2 Paloturvallisuus Oy

MAIN CONTRACTOR
Lujatalo Oy

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Genpro Solutions Oy

Text description provided by architect.

Strömberg Park is a culturally and historically valuable industrial milieu located in Vaasa, Finland. The construction of the area began in the 1940's based on a town plan formulated by Alvar Aalto. Strömberg Park is for the most part owned by the global engineering company ABB.

ABB Strömberg Park
© Mika Huisman - Decopic
ABB Strömberg Park
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Over the years, the gradual joining of what were originally two smaller separate production buildings resulted in the Strömberg Park area’s most extensive unified industrial entity, the 300-meter-long production hall designed in the 1970s by Architect Eskil Haldin.

 ABB’s need to concentrate the operations of its separately located units under the same roof lead in 2019 to an impressive makeover of the old building.

ABB Strömberg Park
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ABB Strömberg Park
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Its hall-like interior has been naturally converted into an architecturally attractive 700-person multi-spatial office environment where a unique history, top-level expertise, and modern technology converge.

The basic principle underlying the architectonic and supportive interior design concept is an open-minded and creative dialogue between the old and new.

ABB Strömberg Park
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ABB Strömberg Park
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The large scale of the existing factory hall was exploited in the vertical and horizontal directions by constructing a new interior mezzanine floor and locating an active 250-metre-long inner street on its upper level.

Besides clearly functioning as a luminous element that delineates the extensive building’s spatial volumes visually and functionally , the inner street passing through the structure is also an amenable meeting place for visitors and staff.

ABB Strömberg Park
© Mika Huisman - Decopic
ABB Strömberg Park
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A drive-through parking garage running in the same direction is located under the new mezzanine level.

The new gable window and balcony at the end of the inner street match the form language and scale of the large old windows that architecturally dominate and characterize the building’s longitudinal façade.

ABB Strömberg Park
© Mika Huisman - Decopic
ABB Strömberg Park
© Mika Huisman - Decopic
ABB Strömberg Park
© Mika Huisman - Decopic

In keeping with the new spatial concept, the large windows are also visually prominent from inside the building and are an essential part of the new working environment’s ambience.

There are no corridors as such in the building; pedestrian movement takes place naturally through a varied and richly visual spatial sequence.

The new spaces bordered by the expansive luminous glass surfaces express the spirit of an era of open information technology as well as a new interactive operational culture.

ABB Strömberg Park
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ABB Strömberg Park
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ABB Strömberg Park
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ABB Strömberg Park
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ABB Strömberg Park
© Mika Huisman - Decopic


ABB Strömberg Park
Site plan
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Ground floor plan
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1st floor plan
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2nd floor plan


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3D section - furnished
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3D section - unfurnished
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Sections
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Facades

Parviainen Architects
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Parviainen Architects
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