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102 103 Guidelines for presenters Registration and info

Please note that the presentation time for academic Registration and info desk is in the main entrance hall papers is 30 minutes in total, i.e. 20 minutes for the talk (doors Z and F) of the Venue Otakaari 1 on Monday 18th and 10 min for discuss. For Brainstorming session, the at 8:30–18. On Tuesday 19th you will find the desk on presentation time is 10 minutes and discussion time U-wing in Otakaari 1M at 8–17, Wednesday 20th at 8–16 20 minutes. Visual presentations time is 6,4 minutes. and Thursday 21st at 8–15. The time for workshops is 30 minutes. Round table sessions include 20 minutes for presentation, following Lost and found with audience discussion in small tables for 20 minutes, and another 20 minutes for shared conversation and Please contact to the registration desk or janitors by the feedback. It is extremely important that presenters stay information desks (by doors F and M). within their allotted time. Each visual, academic and brainstorming session will have an appointed chair to facilitate discussion and to assist with time keeping. All rooms have a student volunteer to assist. Presenters who have a presentation material, are requested to bring their files in the room earlier on the same day, and report to the session chair no later than Useful information 10 minutes prior to the start of their session. Please, take your presentation files with you in a USB stick. In addition, we advise you to have a back-up copy of your presentation for example in your email. Presentations will be uploaded on the computer at the room during the breaks. The standard equipment available in each room will be a PC with internet access and a Data Projector.

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116 117 Welcome to the Otaniemi Campus

The Otaniemi area is situated in the eastern part of Contents Due to a strike, the planning of the Otaniemi area was – in the centre of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area Tuula Isohanni extended to the end of the 1950s, when the first larger Päivi Kiuru these days. The area is now recognized as the cradle of buildings for the Helsinki University of Technology modern Finnish technology industry as well as the main Written by were completed. The first part of the university’s Tuula Isohanni campus of . Meeri Karvinen main building was opened for use in 1964, and the Before the construction of the campus, Otaniemi was Meri Löyttyniemi inauguration was held in connection with the promotion Tiina Metso part of the centuries-old Espoo rural landscape. The Panu Nykänen ceremonies in 1966. need for technical laboratories and increasing number Pauli Saloranta Otaniemi grew into a nucleus for research Tom Simons of students in higher education as well as investment in Verstas Architects supporting Finnish industry during the 1970s and 1980s. the construction of a higher education infrastructure Approximately 40,000 people currently work in the area. required a move of the Helsinki University of Technology That number is set to grow in the years to come as Aalto away from Hietalahti in Helsinki to Otaniemi. The State University concentrates its operations on Otaniemi. The purchased Otaniemi Manor for this purpose in 1949. campus is continuing to develop: the West Metro section Architect won the area’s design is in use, a new university buildings will be completed competition along with his spouse, Aino Aalto, who at Aino Square, and residential construction will be succumbed to a difficult illness over the course of the increased. Regional planning is directed by sustainable competition. The plan was deployed as the basis for development and the goal is self-sufficiency in energy. the area in 1950. It included not only the premises of Useful information the Technical Research Center of (VTT) and Helsinki University of Technology but sports facilities and a student village as well. In the same connection, the area received its current nomenclature. Part of the Teekkari Village and the sports facilities were the first buildings to be completed for the 1952 Olympic Games. After the end of the Games, Otaniemi has frequently functioned as a sports village for European and World Championship events. Of the More information research institutes, the first to be completed were the www.aalto.fi artcoordination.aalto.fi/en Geological Survey of Finland building and the University www.aalto.fi/sustainability of Technology’s sawmill, which were needed not only for www.aaltonet.fi www.alvaraalto.fi research in wood technology but as a material supplier www.kaupunkipolut.fi 118 for the construction of the area. www.visitespoo.fi 119 Explore the Campus Points of interest

1. Otakaari 1 – 3. Shopping Centre Undergraduate Centre At the outset of the 1960s, Alvar Aalto designed The main building of the former Helsinki a shopping centre and bank building for the University of Technology, designed by Alvar centre of Otaniemi. The copper gambrel roof and Elissa Aalto, was completed in 1964. It of the long, one and a half-storey building dominates the central area of the campus, culminates in a fifth, clamshell-like facade, where the main building of the Otaniemi which descends in front of the business Manor was located during the 1700s. The premises into a curved-edged canopy. In the roof of the auditorium continues towards the building is now also found A:space, an open, park in the form of an amphitheatre. The red collaborative space with the driving principles bricks of the campus buildings suggest old such as design thinking, interdisciplinary Finnish industrial architecture, illustrating the learning, and entrepreneurship. A:space is an close relationship of the work done within its initiative launched by the Design Department edifices with industrial activity. The building of Aalto University. In 1987, Aalto’s office is now the Undergraduate Centre of Aalto designed an additional building for the north University, where the students of art and design, section of the shopping centre, where are now technology and business meet. located the services and offices of the Aalto University Student Union (AYY). 2. The Library – Learning Centre Address: Otakaari 11–15 The library building designed by Alvar Aalto was completed in 1969. It is Finland’s oldest 4. Heating Plant and largest library in the technical field. The The campus-based heating plant building

structure is clearly connected with the former designed by Alvar Aalto was realized at the Useful information main building next to it with respect to the outset of the 1960s. The most visible section materials and contours of the facades. The of the building is the cube-shaped power plant, furnishings in the interiors, designed by Aalto whose internal engineering is exposed to view and Elin Törnudd, are a fixed part of the whole: from a glass facade. The roof of the structure a large number of the shelves, tables, counters and its linked projection are made of copper. and lamps are original items. The building was The laboratories, offices and control centre renovated and opened as the Learning Centre of are situated in the lower rectangular shaped Aalto University in 2016. The Learning Centre premises. On the yard of the heating plant won the Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2017. building the energy company St1 Deep Heat Address: Otaniementie 9 is now drilling into the soil two geothermal energy holes, over 6 km deep. The project is the first industrial geothermal energy plant in Finland to be implemented. It is due to be completed in 2018. Address: Otakaari 6

Undergraduate Centre 120 Photo: Tuomas Uusheimo 121 5. Saw Building 8. Dipoli – Aalto University’s The saw building designed by Alvar Aalto is the Main Building oldest building on campus, completed in 1955. The Student Union building designed by Reima For a long time, it was merely a cold shell on and Raili Pietilä was completed in 1966. The top of a sawing line, as the building did not even materials of the structure, which represent have insulation. The saw served the Helsinki organic architecture, derive from Finnish University of Technology campus during the nature: pine, copper and natural stone. Of the construction period in the 1950s and 1960s, total number of Dipoli’s 500 windows, only and was later used to train students from the four are the same as each other. The opening- Department of Forest Products Technology. and-closing Käpy (Cone, 1968), a work of art by Currently the Saw Building functions as a Reijo Perko and Heikki Koivikko, is found in venue for various events. front of the entrance. The Dipoli building was Address: Konemiehentie 1 renovated and opened as the main building of the Aalto University in 2017. As a building, it 6. Otahalli – Sports Centre represents a new type of multi-purpose design Otahalli Sports Centre, designed by Alvar that showcases the University’s expertise, Aalto, was completed for the 1952 Olympics. activities and people. Dipoli offers the entire The building’s larger hall was at one time the Aalto community and its stakeholders meeting country’s largest structure of its kind, and the places and work spaces as well as event and span between its wooden rafters is 45 metres. exhibition facilities. Otaniemi’s sports centre boasts a grassy field, Address: Otakaari 24 grounds for track and field, a skating area, two street basketball courts, three tennis courts and 9. Teknologföreningen a jogging track. The Swedish speakers’ sorority house, part of Address: Luolamiehentie 7 the former Helsinki University of Technology, was designed by Kurt and Thua Moberg and 7. Jämeräntaival 1 – was completed in 1966. The building has no Student dormitory straight corners, and a mythological drinking This building, completed in 1966, is the only horn inspired its shape. Club TF – the first dormitory on campus designed by Alvar Aalto. disco in the region of Finland’s capital – The four-storey, V-shaped edifice has over 200 functioned in the premises, and since the 1980s Useful information rooms, and originally it functioned during the the tradition has been continued by the Täffä summers as a hotel. The southeast façade on AB restaurant. the dormitory’s east wing undulates and the Address: Otakaari 22 layout resembles a fan, which is reminiscent of Aalto’s previously designed MIT dormitory in 10. Teekkari Village Boston. Teekkari Village was planned and designed by Heikki Siren and Matti Melakari. The first stage of the village – nine ‘point’ houses – was completed for the 1952 Olympics. The construction of these buildings represents the world’s largest stunt ever performed by students: engineering students helped onsite to clear and move, in a voluntary work project, a total of 800,000 bricks from the Soviet Embassy, which had been bombed and destroyed during the Continuation War. Learning Centre 122 Address: Jämeräntaival 3, 5 & 7 Photo: Tuomas Uusheimo 123 11. Servin mökki 14. Väre – New Building 17. Garden For Decaying Wood Kaija and Heikki Siren designed this students’ for the ARTS The ‘Garden for Decaying Wood’ established restaurant, which was completed in the centre Väre is a new building for the Aalto University close to the seashore in 2014 reinforces the of the Teekkari Village in 1952. Currently in School of Arts, Design and Architecture biodiversity on campus. At the same time, it use as a multi-purpose facility, the building’s (ARTS) designed by Verstas Architects, and provides a relaxing place to stop for anyone unpretentious milieu is born from its unplaned, will be opened in July 2018. Together with the proceeding along the shore route. The garden sawn-timber board and structures that have most prominent buildings designed by Alvar also offers a location to dispose of dry twigs been left visible. The original Servin Maijan Aalto, the addition defines a new central plaza collected in the care of green areas. The mökki has evidently been a recreational facility to the very core of the campus and combines ‘Garden for Decaying Wood’ is the winning work in Helsinki’s Alppila district. university premises to metro station and by Kimmo Heikkinen and Sofia Tigerstedt in a Address: Jämeräntaival 4 commercial services. The edifice, segmented student competition. in terms of scale to resemble a village, openly 12. conjoins the operations of the university 18. Laajalahti’s natura area The chapel, designed by Kaija and Heikki with their environment – communicating the This 192-hectare Natura area features some Siren, is situated on the highest hill in the message of Aalto University’s values, ambitions, of South Finland’s best bird wetlands. In Otaniemi campus area. It stands on a plateau creativity and sense of community. Väre addition to the low and reed-filled gulf, it is on the hilltop, resulting in a splendid series building for the ARTS, a new building for the bordered by flood forest, grove vegetation and of premises from the front courtyard to the School of Business (part II of Väre), and ABlock former cultivated fields and shrubbery. Three low vestibule and hall seating 140 people, and shopping centre will form a huge building kilometres of duckboard extend through the proceeding from the same via the altar wall to complex of 33 000 m2, which will also become a area to the Elfvik Nature House. There are two a natural forest area where a cross has been crossroads of public traffic lines, existing metro bird-watching towers along the nature trail. erected directly into the bedrock. Otakappeli station under the building and a becoming Among others, the corncrake, spotted crake and Chapel is a globally renowned and awarded circular tram line in early 2020’s. both the common and Arctic tern nest within architectural site. the area. Address: Jämeräntaival 8 15. Manor Estates An impressive utilitarian and decorative garden 13. Polytechnical was built round the ancient Otaniemi manor Students’ Museum estates (from the 1700s), with greenhouses Other buildings designed by and a linden alley (15a) linking the buildings. The Polytechnical Students’ Museum is an Alvar Aalto in the area: absolute jewel of its kind. According to the Another partially preserved linden alley International Council of Museums (ICOM), proceeds behind the current Learning Centre Useful information acting under Unesco, this is the only museum (15b). In addition to the empire-influenced 19. VTT Technical Research Centre 23. VTT owned and maintained by students that main building (15c) of Hagalund’s manor estate, of Finland VTT Oil and Peat Technology Laboratory, 1960 concentrates on student culture. It presents a red-bricked pigsty (15d) has remained, which VTT Lining Technology Laboratory, 1955/1962 Biologinkuja 5 aspects of the engineering student experience functions these days as a riding school. Metallimiehenkuja 2 that are both visible and less known by means 24. Aalto University of objects and stories. 16. Otaniemi Urban Gardening 20. Aalto University TKK/VTT Wood Technology Laboratory, 1966 Address: Jämeräntaival 3a, open by The urban gardening area opened for use in VTT Thermal Engineering Laboratory, 1963 Puumiehenkuja 2 appointment: [email protected]. 2013 near Ossinlampi Pond reinforces the Lämpömiehenkuja 3 sustainable campus and sense of community 25. Aalto University Aalto University stands for, as its plots can 21. VTT Otaniemi Administrative Board Offices and be rented by all the university’s students and VTT Fire Technology Laboratory, 1966/1973 Workshops, 1966 employees. The rental system is managed by Kivimiehentie 4 Otakaari 8 an association established by the university and student union. The project, realized by 22. Otaniemi Water Tower 26. Sports Field Sofia Tigerstedt, was launched as a result of 1972 Maintenance Building the World Design Capital (WDC) competition Tekniikantie 6 1971 Learning Centre in 2012. 124 Luolamiehentie 4 Photo: Tuomas Uusheimo 125