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Kyly, a temple for washing by Avanto
Kyly, a work by architects Ville Hara and Anu Puustinen
(SAFA) of Avanto Architects, has won the eighth
Habitare Design Competition, organized by Finland's
largest design fair. Asami Naito, a graduate
student in architecture, assisted with the design. The
leading judge of the competition, architect and professor
Sami Rintala, awarded the winner the 8,000 euro prize at
the Habitare Fair on September 9th. The theme of this
year the University of Art and Design Helsinki, was the
Sauna. The lead judge of the competition, Sami Rintala,
explained his choice in this way: “Hara, Puustinen, and
Naito show in their work how massive wood can be used in
the year 2009 in a way way that’s holistic and appropriate
to the times. Their series of spaces celebrates the ritual of
the sauna – arriving, removing the markers of everyday
life as we undress, ascending into the sauna, and cleansing
ourselves – in a way that’s straightforward and easy to
comprehend. It’s about a space for bathing culture. Kyly is
both universal and at the same time an unmistakably
Finnish sauna.”
