Alvar Aalto Entrance of the Jyväskylä Workers’ Club - WINDOW RESEARCH INSTITUTESeries

Series Window Behaviorology on Nordic Architecture

Alvar Aalto
Entrance of the Jyväskylä Workers’ Club

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory (Institute of Science Tokyo)

24 Sep 2026

Keywords: Alvar Aalto; Architecture; Columns

A former workers’ association hall in downtown Jyväskylä. The building is now used as a theatre. The landing of the stairway leading from the entrance up to the foyer is articulated by a large semicircular window, which is subdivided into small panes and is double-layered for thermal insulation. An underfloor radiator additionally prevents condensation from forming on the interior surface of the glass.

Worker’s Club
Alvar Aalto
Vainonkatu, Jyvaskyla, 1924-25

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.