Corten in Keilaniemi

The fins project outward from the facade, creating deep triangular shadows in direct light and filtering warm amber through every opening at night. The material is designed to catch and amplify warmth, flat brown in flat light, burning copper-orange in the hour before dark. Documented from golden hour through blue hour to full night to show the complete range of what the corten does.

One year after Heymo.1, L Arkkitehdit returned to Keilaniemi and built its counterpart a few hundred metres away. LSC1A is the sixth building in the Life Science Center complex and the first to break from the original 2003-2007 palette. The curved corten mass acts as a gateway to the whole cluster, with a full-height glazed ground floor that reads as a continuous interior glow at dusk. Same material language as Heymo.1. Different program, different geometry, same hand.

Documented at blue hour across a single session, with the tenant signage (Hologic, AstraZeneca, Creo Center, Ahlstrom) left legible to anchor the building in its specific moment.