Let’s build!

Pilke is a large-scale wooden public building. Explore how you feel in a house built of wood! Can you notice a difference in the indoor air quality? How about sounds and acoustics?

Wood is a traditional, yet a modern building material. There are one million detached houses in Finland, and most of them have a timber frame. A wooden structure serves as a carbon storage, as it retains the carbon sequestered in the wood for its entire life cycle. Processing wood into a building material consumes little energy compared to, for example, steel or concrete. Wood is locally procured and light to transport. Timber construction is gaining ground even in public construction. Wood’s favourable properties must be understood and taken into account when planning the structures and appearance of a building. A wooden building can generate positive feelings that cannot be measured using variables related to building physics. The scent of wood is appealing to many, and wood is pleasing to the touch due to its warm and natural feel.