This presentation covers the life of 'JUHANI PALLASMAA' and his relation with architecture, with a few of his works - books and building designs.

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JUHANI PALLASMAA
KAVYA RAVI

2. Born 14 September 1936
Hameenlinna, Finland
Nationality Finnish
Occupation Architect
Practice Arkkitehtitoimisto Juhani Pallasmaa KY
Buildings Art Museum, Rovaniemi
Institute Finlandais, Paris
Kamppi Centre, Helsinki
Moduli 225
Projects Tapiola development plan
Design Helsinki Telephone Association, phone booth
JUHANI PALLASMAA

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• Juhani Pallasma is a Finnish architect as an
exhibition designer, writer, teacher and practicing
architect.
• As director of the Museum of Finnish
Architecture from 1978 to 1983, he was germane in
internationalising its activities and exhibiting over a
decade ago the works of such architects as Tadao
Ando, Alvaro Siza and Daniel Libeskind, who only
later became renowned throughout the world.
• He runs his own architect's office –
Arkkitehtitoimisto Juhani Pallasmaa KY – in Helsinki,
but to date his body of practical work remains
comparatively small.
• Pallasmaa became universally known through his
lectures and books on architectural theory and his
interest in phenomenology.
• In his widely read 1996 book "The Eyes of the Skin.
Architecture and the Senses." he stresses the
importance of experience in architectural
production which today is neglected by most
practitioners.
• Juhani Pallasmaa is currently a member of the
Pritzker Prize Award jury.

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▪Juhani Pallasmaa has designed more than buildings through books, essays ,and lectures, he has created an empire
of ideas. Many young architects have been inspired by Pallasmaa’s teaching and his classic text.
▪Architecture is a craft and an art to Pallasmaa. It has to be both, which makes architecture an "impure“ or "messy“
discipline. He has formulated and described the essence of architecture all of his life.
▪Philosophies : He promotes a back-to-basics, evolutionary approach to architecture that has become revolutionary
in the 21stcentury.
▪"The computer has no capacity for empathy, for compassion. The computer cannot imagine the use of space. But
the most important thing is that the computer cannot hesitate. Working between the mind and the hand we often
hesitate and were vealour own answers in our hesitations.“
▪In spite of the many architecture projects he has completed, Pallasmaa maybe best-known as a theorist and
educator. He has taught at universities all over the world.
▪He has written and lectured extensively on cultural philosophy , environmental psychology, and architectural
theory. His works are read in many architecture classrooms around the world.

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• In terms of architectural production, the work Juhani Pallasmaa has
undergone a shift during his career. His early career is characterized by
concerns with rationalism, standardization and prefabrication.
• Pallasmaa’s first keywork demonstrating these principles was the
Moduli225 (with Kristian Gullichsen), an industrial-produced summer
house,1969-1971,of which around six were built in Finland. However, the
key models for this type of architecture were both Japanese architecture
and their fined abstractions of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
• In Finland ,Juhani Pallasmaa is known as a Constructivist.
• But the interest in Japan also contained the seeds for Pallasmaa’s later
concerns; materiality and a phenomenology of experience. It was after
returning from teaching in Africa that Pallasmaa turned away from pure
constructivism, and took up his concerns with psychology, culture and
phenomenology.
• His concern for details and small works such as exhibition design has
sometimes earned him the label "jewel-boxarchitect".
• 2006 saw the completion of his largest ever work, the Kamppi Center,
incorporating the main bus station, a shopping centre and housing in
central Helsinki, though the work was split up into different sections
involving various architects, and over all design was under the control of
architects Helin&Co.

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WORKS
▪2003to2006 : Kamppi Centre, Helsinki.
▪2004 : Snow Show (with Rachel Whiteread), Lapland
▪2002to2003 : Bank of Finland Museum, Helsinki
▪2002 : Pedestrian and cycle bridge, Viikki Eco-village
▪1989to1991 : Extensions to Itäkeskus Shopping Centre
▪1990to1991: Outdoor spaces for Ruoholahti Residential Area
▪1986to1991: Institut Finlandais (with Roland Schweitzer)
▪1987: Phone Booth Design for Helsinki Telephone Association
▪1986: Renovation of Helsinki Old Market Hall, Helsinki
▪1984to1986: Renovation of the Art Museum in Rovaniemi
▪1970: Summer atelier of artist Tor Arne, Vänö Island

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Moduli 255,Helsinki, Finland
• The project Moduli225 initiated in 1968 by
Kristian Gullichsen and Juhani Pallasmaa takes its
name from the basic dimension of the
geometric module that organizes the 225 cm.
• These houses are built of wood, steel and glass.
• The cubic module forms the edges of the
structure and each of these frames is divided
into three parts of 75cm, which can
accommodate panels of this dimension: these may
contain solid wall panels, doors, windows.
• Although the design was initially earmarked as
summer cottage, the house has been widely used
as a primary residence. Through this system of
prefabrication sixty houses were built between
1969 and 1973.
• The first was the summer residence of one of its
creators, Kristian Gullichsen, on the outskirts of
Helsinki.

8. •The foundation is solved with adjustable metal
supports, so that the need for on site work to support
the home is avoided.
•The adjustable supports can absorb topographic
differences of upto 1.5m.
The assembly time for the most basic housing was two
days and the price was affordable.
•The roof is flat and is constructed with panels made
of two layers of wooden board including insulation
glass wool.
•The roof panel support the beams and alternate their
placement direction. Their section is greater than
that of the wall modules and they have battens that
allow fixing the ceiling cladding. This solution also
provides a groove to house the pipes, which run under
the beams.

9. Kamppi Centre,Helsinki, Finland
▪ Kamppi Centre is a complex in the Kamppi district in the centre of
Helsinki, designed by various architects, the main designer, however,
being Juhani Pallasmaa.
▪ It is said to be Helsinki’s new downtown commercial and residential
centre. As a four-year construction project, it was the largest singular
construction site in the history of Finland, involving the extensive and
difficult re-development of the Kamppi district in downtown Helsinki.
▪ The Kamppi Centre combines the commercial need for streamlined,
optimized shopping environment with the necessary supply of
customers by maximum accessibility and mobility.
One of the first of its kind in Europe, the centre consists of:
▪ Central bus terminal for local buses
▪ Long- distance coach terminal (underground)
▪ Kamppi metro station (underground)
▪ A freight depot (underground)
▪ Internal parking area(underground)
▪ 6 floor shopping centre with a supermarket, shops, restaurants, night clubs and
servicepoints.

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• The entire complex was opened in stages, with the new
metro station entrance opened on 2 June 2005, the central
bus terminal on 5 June, the long-distance bus terminal on
6 June and the shopping centre opened on 2 March 2006.
• The appearance of the building is a reflection of the main
architect Juhani Pallasmaa’s on going interest in
Constructivist architecture and Structuralist
architecture, as if the building functions as a machine.
• The project comes from an international competition the
City of Helsinki held in 2002 to redevelop the Kamppi
area, which was under used.
• One of the main aims was to move the bus terminal
underground to use the space more efficently. There were
particular construction challenges building in the heart of
the city over an operating subway, demanding exceptional
cooperation between planners and authorities.