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Series Window Behaviorology on Nordic Architecture

Alvar Aalto
Room in TKY 2

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

03 Apr 2025

Keywords: Alvar Aalto; Architecture; Columns

This is a room in a student dormitory at Aalto University (formerly the Helsinki University of Technology), which is located in a suburb of Helsinki. The large square window is adjoined by a ventilation window, framed with pine, and set in a red brick façade. The sill has a slit to let the warm air from the under-window radiator through and invites one to study at the window-side desk while taking in the view.

Room in TKY 2
Alvar Aalto
Helsinki, 1966

This article is an excerpt from “Windows Stranding the Ethnological and Industrial Networks,” a joint research project concerning windows and the behaviors around them done in collaboration with Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory.