The Pilke House is a combined office building and

science centre A science museum is a museum devoted primarily to science. Older science museums tended to concentrate on static displays of objects related to natural history, paleontology, geology, industry and industrial machinery, etc. Modern trends in m ...

Rovaniemi Rovaniemi ( , ; sme, Roavvenjárga ; smn, Ruávinjargâ; sms, Ruäʹvnjargg) is a city and municipality of Finland. It is the administrative capital and commercial centre of Finland's northernmost province, Lapland, and its southern part Per� ...

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

. It was built in 2011 and is notable for its low carbon footprint and the use of sustainable wood products in its design.

Science Centre Pilke

Science Centre Pilke, opened in June 2011, has interactive exhibits, presentations and short tours, and is designed for people of all ages.Science Centre Pilke tells the story of forest and timber use
/ref> The exhibition at the Science Centre focuses on the sustainable use of northern forests: the growth and management of forests and forest-based products and commodities.

Office building

The Pilke House also houses the offices of

Metsähallitus Metsähallitus (Finnish) (Forststyrelsen in Swedish, Meahciráđđehus in Sami, ''"the (Finnish) Forest Administration"'') is a state-owned enterprise in Finland. Its two main tasks are Parks & Wildlife Finland to manage most of the protected are ...

, the organization which manages Finland's 37 national parks, providing workspace for 135 people.

Architecture

The building is a wooden beam-column structure, an example of ecological wood construction and

Finnish architecture The architecture of Finland has a history spanning over 800 years, and while up until the modern era the architecture was strongly influenced by currents from Finland's two respective neighbouring ruling nations Sweden and Russia, from the early ...

. The carbon dioxide emissions of the wooden Pilke House are about one third of those of a steel or concrete building of the same size. In 2011 Pilke House was presented with the Wooden Structure of the Year Award by the Puuinfo organization. The facade of the building consists of wooden bearing exterior wall blocks. The rooms and spaces inside the building can be altered and resized flexibly. The Pilke House is designed by the architectural studio Arkkitehtityöhuone Artto Palo Rossi Tikka Oy (APRT). The chief designer was Architect Teemu Palo; Juhani Suikki worked as the project's architect.The Pilke House built by Lemminkäinen receives the 2011 wood structure of the year award - Lemminkäinen
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References

External links

The homepage of Science Centre PilkeThe homepage of Metsähallitus
*http://www.metsa.fi/sivustot/metsa/en/Sivut/Home.aspx {{coord, 66, 30, 40, N, 025, 43, 53, E, region:FI-LL_type:landmark, display=title Rovaniemi Science museums in Finland Museums in Finland Forestry museums Forestry in Finland