Aalto University Campus Otaniemi Finland

Otaniemi Technical University - library - Alvar Aalto
The library building, which is closely related to the other main buildings of the Institute, is situated parallel to an old avenue which had formerly led to the centre of a large estate, and it forms one side of a large park. The library closes off at an oblique angle the third side of the park/court established by the main buildings of the Institute of Technology, begun twenty-two years previously. As a major reference library, the main problem was to provide good working conditions for the students over a three-storey basement for the library stacks. These spaces, and the small lending collection are housed in a faceted volume on the side, away from the main buildings. In the rectilinear tail of the building, offices and seminar rooms are provided. The library was designed in 1964 and built 1965 to 1969.
Otaniemi Technical University - auditorium - Alvar Aalto
The focal point of this university centre is the auditorium building with two large halls (also intended for congresses). Its staircase-like ascending rows of windows suggest from the outside and amphitheatre. All tuition rooms are in adjacent buildings grouped about small internal courts, and here are also found the smaller lecture-rooms, laboratories and professors' rooms. The centre is divided into three principal departments: general, geodetic and architectural. The chief materials are dark red brick, black granite and copper. Primary materials are dark red brick, black granite and copper. 1949 competition, completed 1964

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