Inside, the building is a children’s village. The hall is a village square with its own small buildings. Intimacy increases towards the home areas, in the spirit of Christopher Alexander’s Pattern Language. The repertoire of architectural means includes the unfettered, peculiar bending of the precinct of the plan and the eaves-line, and the kinetic movement arising from the coloured diagonal lines of the rock-board and white vertical battening of the outer circumference. The timber construction of the day-nursery reveals itself in, among other things, the momentary presence of the roof trusses. The planes of the roof form a fifth facade as a composition of black-and-white felt. The general intention of the architecture is to create a permissive and playful attitude that respects children, while the palette of colours and materials aims at a garage-style, laid-back ambience. The details have been developed in the spirit of Duchamp and ready-mades - even the sheet-aluminium of the weathercocks has a ready-made flutter.

Pentti Kareoja

Excerpt from the article on the pages 64-69, ark 4/2000