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36 Dipoli 40-years on Reima and Raili Pietilä’s Helsinki University Student Union Building ‘Dipoli’ in Otaniemi is an icon of modern architecture. Although causing controversy at the time of its construction in the 1960s, for an apparent rejection of accepted modern movement forms, it is today one of Finland’s most highly valued buildings. With an extensive use of copper cladding as one of its natural materials, Copper Architecture Forum revisited Dipoli to see how it had changed over time and to discuss it with Raili Pietilä. COPPER ARCHITECTURE FORUM – 29/2010 Text by Hannele Kuusisto and Chris Hodson HERE, FORM FOLLOWS NATURE …RATHER THAN FUNCTION
THe CaVemeN’s WeddiNG marCH The town plan for the area was produced by Alvar Aalto in 1949. The Dipoli building resulted from a design competition, won by husband and wife Raili and Reima Pietilä in 1965 - their first project together, called the “Cavemen’s Wedding March”. Critics have commented that the architects turned their backs on the modern movement and functionalism, in favour of a more romantic response to the building’s natural surroundings. It is set in an archetypical Finnish landscape with tall pine trees and rugged rocks. However, the design satisfies the functional aspects of a complex programme, in particular acting as a link between living and teaching buildings with a strong diagonal route acting as the dynamic generator of the plan form. This diagonal separates recti- linear, functional areas to the north from the common areas to the south which take on organic shapes responding directly to the topography. Here, form follows nature rather than function. a NeW arCHiTeCTUral laNGUaGe Reima Pietilä was certainly regarded as an innovator and developed a new architectural language at Dipoli with a timeless quality, integrating the building with its surroundings. The free-form, deeply overhanging roofs with copper edges seem almost to span between the trees, walls merge with the rock landscape and fenestration works to the rhythm of the trees. The design for Dipoli was the result of endless discussions and keen observation of Floor Plan the surroundings by the Pietiläs. The landscape and its colours and textures played a key role in the extensive use of natural materials such as rock and timber. Large boulders were hewn from the surroundings and stacked high by the walls of the building. Rock is also used inside which, together with the large windows, draws the landscape right inside the building. Many facades are copper-clad using narrow strips laid irregularly, almost like timber boarding. In addition to Dipoli, Tampere City Library called “Metso” and the Mäntyniemi Presidential Residence are among the best-known buildings in Finland designed by Architects Pietilä and copper plays an important role in defining the architecture of them all. COPPER ARCHITECTURE FORUM – 29/2010 37
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