Savilahti Campus

Year

2022

Client

Savo Consortium for Education, Kuopio

SCALE

28 800 m² (gross)

WHAT wE DID

Architectural design

Savilahti Campus is the new main campus of Savo Vocational College. The building was designed for more than 2,000 students and approximately 370 employees.

The multidisciplinary campus accommodates the facilities for the study fields of health and wellness, business and administration, tourism, nutrition and food, data processing and telecommunications, and electrical and automation engineering.

The main design focuses were customer orientation, flexibility and individuality. At the heart of the building lies a space containing the public lobby, restaurant and bistro, and the most public areas, such as the customer service facilities and the shop, are located nearby. The building’s façades of meandering, interconnected masses clad in brick and large glass walls.

When construction is completed, the building will be the largest building with a Nordic Swan Ecolabel in Finland.