1. Satu Miettinen, Juha Miettinen, Antti Kares, Raisa Leinonen and Timo Sirviö
Kuopio Academy of Design, Savonia University of Applied Sciences
Finland
P.O. BOX 98, FIN -70101 KUOPIO
Email: office@designkuopio.fi
"DE-SME - Intelligent Furniture - Training for Design,
Environment and New Materials in SMEs"
Agreement n. 2009 - 2196 / 001 - 001

2. Theme 5.2.1. case c) Concept Design in Service Production
CASE: KOKO house (WoodKOKO)
”Innovative KOKO house -concept brings entirely extension for living.”
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3. BRIEF:
Herrala Talot Oy gave the brief to architect and professor Hannu Tikka
and interior architect and designer Tapio Anttila:
”New, innovative and modern wooden prefabricated house”
www.herrala-talot.fi
www.tapioanttila.com
www.aprt.fi/english/partners.html

4. INQUIRY
”But before any sketch or pictures we made a lot of backgroud work
asking people what they really want and what are their needs.”
(Anttila)
RESULTS
• Modifiability – new space solutions to nowaday’s living and life cycle
needs and possibility to private solutions
• Ecological – materials, energy
• Space and privacy in spite of small building lots (city area)
• Price and budgeting – no extra, unspected cost
• Delivery’s realiability and quality
• Architecture

5. FIRST SKETCHS – MODERN VERSION OF ”VETERAN HOUSE”
”From the first sketches it was clear that we use a traditional ”veteran
house” as a archetype for our project. Our aim was to make a modern
version to nowadays needs. We tried to save it’s cosiness by designing
a space more open. An idea of two buildings and between them a
sheltered yard.” (Anttila)
Veteran houses were built after the second war lot in Finland. The
original houses war quite small (about 70m2) but fuctionally active and
suitable for city area where building sites are quite small

6. DEVELOPING AND TESTING THE CONCEPT
• In order to serve clients better designers created concepts which
would help clients in their KOKO house projects; furnishing
packages and design packages
• Proto house ”I have never felt myself as a private house people,
but I was intered in to test in practise how the concept we had
developed would works – so I started my own KOKO house project. I
opened blog which follows the construction of my own KOKO house
near Lahti, Finland.” www.tapioanttila.wordpress.com

7. DIFFERENT SIZES AND LAYOUTS FOR DIFFERENT NEEDS
• A client can choose from three different sizes: S, M and L.
• The amount of totally different combination is nine and along with this
inside of these all several different layouts are available.
•www.herrala-talot.fi/kokotalo

8. SPACE AND PEACE
• Roof truss has turned over which gives more space
• Inside wooden building constructions are in view;
save space and give an athmospire of ”Loft image”
• Big windows bring light
• Living department connects to other spaces and
contructs a shelted yard
ECOLOGICAL
• Bearing wall in the middle of a house heats a whole
house with one full nest all day and night
• Optimized space utilization, no waste square meters,
save energy
• Client can adopt ecological heating system,
for example a heating pump
• Ecological life cycle thinking as the basis of design

9. MODIFIABILITY FOR LIFE CYCLE LIVING
• During inhabitants’ life cycle and during variable periods of life KOKO
house is able to revise according to changing needs.
• Example: A young couple buys a house with a one and half floors with
a reasonable price. When a family grows it is possible to expand a
space to second floor or build more inner walls.

10. FURNISHING PACKAGES – SAVE CLIENTS’ TIME (MONEY)
• Ready designed (by Tapio Anttila) furnishing packages for
bathrooms, saunas, kitchens etc.
• Save client’s time
• Every package has three different price category: A,B,C which helps
budgeting
• Exaple: Bathroom packages includes: pools, showers, toilettes,
taps, plates….. and even stands for toilette-papers
• Client can also build packages self and use sevices of ”House
master” in Herrala Talot which includes the whole network of
manufactures and constructors

11. FURNISHING DESIGN AS A SUPPLEMENTARY SERVICE
Tapio Anttila has also designed for KOKO house furnishing systems
from which a client can easily choose for self the most matching
option. Furnishing has implemented in cooperation with the following
companies.
Koskisen Oy (outside constructions, KOKOA-interior panels)
Laattapiste (wet spaces)
Helo + Lumilaude (sauna premises)
Uunisepät (fireplaces)
Isku Keittiöt (kitchens)
Hoviportaat (stairs)
Tank Indoor (sliding doors and
space utilization)
Saas Instruments (lightning)
Karelia Parketti (floor materials)
Vallila Interior (interior textiles)
Vepsäläinen (furnitures)

12. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication
reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any
use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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