TRIADI

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TRIADI – Myllykoski Church Extension, presentation panel 72 dpi

TRIADI
Myllykoski church extension

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Religious Centre · Church

Additional building to an early 20th century church in a historically significant industrial town in Kouvola area, Finland. Project based on a competition-winning design.

The author's competition-winning entry has been further developed in this project in collaboration with the users and engineers, anticipating the following realisation. The proposed design creates a functional extension in a context-sensitive way, respecting the scale and characteristics of the existing early 20th century church architecture, the original industrial buildings as well as the surrounding small-scale housing. The extension's material palette, humane scale and streamlined aesthetics simultaneously reflect the nationally significant legacy of Myllykoski, its factories and villas, modest workers' houses and the simple yet majestic church. Traditional building techniques such as massive brick walls and a lightweight timber roof structure are utilised. Meanwhile the extension still clearly represents the modern age without resorting to pastiche. The result is a new construction deeply rooted in its historical context by virtue of sensitive design.

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