Alvar Aalto Dining room of Aalto House - WINDOW RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Series Window Behaviorology on Nordic Architecture

Alvar Aalto
Dining room of Aalto House

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory (Institute of Science Tokyo)

12 Mar 2026

Keywords: Architecture; Columns

The window overlooking the south garden from the dining room is a combination of narrow wooden panels for ventilation and a double-glazed fixed window. A radiator is installed below the glass to prevent cold drafts, and plants are placed on the radiators to make effective use of the rising warm air. Ivy covering the exterior iron bars frames the view, bringing the interior greenery and the garden even closer to each other.

Dining room of Aalto House
Alvar Aalto
Riihitie, Helsinki, 1936

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 Institute of Science Tokyo’s Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory.