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the palette café
Interior Design 2019
The project is a renovation proposal for an abandoned sauna building in Jokiniemi, Finland. The new proposal features a small café, an atelier, and a gallery space for the nearby community.
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The project was developed during my Erasmus+ at the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland. Project in partnership with Agnese Jauja, supervised by Merita Soini, Timo Paaer, Pauli Siponen, and Tuomas Klaus, for our Building Technology- Field Experience, Measuring and Renovation course. Photo credits: Sanna Oksanen
The former sauna building is located close to the Jokiniemi mall and train station, in the Vantaa area in Helsinki, Finland. This area is facing a recent renovation with the introduction of new one-room apartments. The sauna was built in the 1930s and has been abandoned since the '90s.
The Palette café is thought for the young people living in the new one bed room apartments and the families in the Jugen houses, in Jokiniemi, Finland.
The Palette café is created for the young people living in the new one-bedroom apartments and the families in the Jugen houses in Jokiniemi, Finland. For our proposal, we imagined getting home to our one-bedroom apartment, tired of people and just wanting to let excessive stress out in a creative way, but not having space or equipment for it. Or even worse, waking up without our morning cup of coffee and not having any café or bar close by. Not the best scenario for coffee lovers. “The palette café” will therefore serve as a bar, a gallery space, and an atelier for the nearby residents.
The Palette cafe's architecture has been cut on the East, South, and West sides to let in natural light and create an exciting and curious sneak peek to the inside.
We only kept the structural walls for the interior to divide the gallery space from the bar area. For the bathroom area, new wooden frame walls have been added. The entrance door has been moved from the south side to the Westside to facilitate the flow and to welcome the users better. The damaged foundations will be redone and reinforced, and the flooring will be heated from beneath. Also, the attic flooring will be renovated and lowered to the beam height. Here the radiators will be below floor level, running by the east and west walls.
The attic’s gloomy feeling is the life force of the space, so to keep this essential feature, the inner structure has been saved, adding on the exterior the needed isolation and a reinforced structure.
Ground Floor Program: Entrance, Café, Storage, Galley, and Bathroom.
First Floor Program: Attic Atelier
Sections
Flooring: Bringing out the original flooring to life by using polished concert flooring in the gallery and backroom. In the cafe, the flooring is oak parquet and the lounge and bathroom are tiled. With an aim to keep the original atmosphere in the attic we brought out the structural beams and added new lacquered spruce flooring in between the beams.
Walls: The original concrete of the first floor outer walls are brought out and painted with linseed oil paint. Also, the structural inside walls are brought to their original glory by bringing out the red bricks. The bathroom and lounge walls are partly tiled and the rest of the walls are wallpapered with a 20’s style. For the attic, the interior structures and walls have been conserved.
Ceilings: For the first floor, the concert slab has been exposed and painted with linseed oil paint giving more hight to the space and a raw feeling. In the attic, the original roof structure and planking is conserved and works as the ceiling of the art studio.
Doors and windows: Original windows and doors are kept and renovated un- less they are affected by the architectural changes. Large three-layered glass panels, isolated with a steel frame are used on the facades and the glass entrance door is inlaid in them. The windows in the attic are kept and renovated.
Café visual.
Attic Atelier visual.
Skills: In this project, I collaborated with my group-mate to measure the building, develop the project's concept, material selection, and the renovation proposal. I contributed to the project through the Archicad File, graphics, InDesign files, and final visualizations.
Software: Archicad, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop.
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