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Martta Wendelin Day Care Centre

Completed in 2022, Martta Wendelin Day Care Centre is a wooden building designed to provide facilities for around 200 children. Measured in cubic metres, the Martta Wendelin daycare centre is the largest of its kind built from solid wood in Finland.

Project details

  • Facts

    Completion: 2022​. Gross Area: 3 252 m²​. Designed by: AFKS Architects​. Customer: City of Tuusula

  • What we did

    Rejlers played a key role in the project by managing the HVAC and electrical design in the project.​

  • Highlight

    The day-care centre is an excellent example of how the transition towards a more carbon neutral built environment can be achieved.

The Martta Wendelin Day Care Center in the municipality of Tuusula, Southern Finland, has been honored with the Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2023. The day-care centre is an excellent example of how to transition towards a more carbon neutral built environment.

An excellent example to promote sustainability 

The orientation of the interior has taken advantage of the southern park landscape and sunlight. The handsome outdoor canopy serves as a centre for children’s outdoor play. The daycare centre’s space solutions are functionally carefully considered, emphasizing the role of small group spaces as a safe growth environment. The structures chosen for the exterior walls, partitions and intermediate floors are a single-material CLT massive structure that acts as a carbon sink. The daycare centre is an excellent example of how construction can work towards a more carbon-neutral environment. 

The day-care centre is an excellent example of the kind of methods and interventions already available that can be implemented within the construction sector to promote sustainability and carbon neutrality, while creating architecture for the future.

Images: Martta Wendelin Day Care Centre by Hannu Rytky

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Asko Laune Head of Buildings, Finland