A hotel that is not a typical hotel, but a designer hotel made of wood. And it is not intended to accommodate the "masses" of people. But it lies in a dream location. By the coast, by the sea. On the small island of Valkosaari in Helsinki, Finland. The wooden design hotel WISA is a prototype, an experiment of a modern weekend, which bears the signature of the architect Pieta-Linda Auttila.
Wooden designer the WISA hotel was created for the 24th wood design research workshop organized by a Finnish wood processing company UPM Kymmene in order to show the multifacetedness and range of possibilities offered by this natural material. The hotel, which, paradoxically, was not designed as a classic hotel, consists of two main, wooden parts, cubes, connected by an impressive architecture, long wooden curved panels that bring softness, organicity, movements and the smell of the wind to the hardness of the cubes. Finnish pine, spruce and birch are the main actors in both the exterior and interior of this unique of the modern weekend. The main works create an internal patio that is protected from direct wind and sunlight. Large windows offer a view of the sea and the city on the other side.
Pieta-Linda Auttila describes the idea for modern weekend in the form of of the wooden designer hotel WISA: "In the beginning there was a roaring sea. The force of the waves lifted the piece of wood, which had already been darkened by the sea water, to the surface. And threw him against the rocks again. The force of the blow broke the wood in half.”
