INNOVATIVE HERITAGE: A STRUCTURAL EXPERIMENT IN FINNISH LOG CONSTRUCTION

Finland has a long history of massive wood construction such that the log construction technique has been used as a traditional method of Finnish residential construction for thousands of years, and the entire history of Finnish architecture is based on this technique. With the development of technology, some innovative timber structures have developed in Finland.

Finland boasts an extensive heritage of timber construction, predominantly reliant on logs. Logs are frequently stacked horizontally and joined at specific corner junctions. Various forms of log joints exist, and six representative log joints are often used for construction in Finland.

The main structure of this proposal is the log. The experimental design was implemented by mixing all six of Finland’s representative log forms discussed earlier. The museum can be defined as a new structural format that can explore Finland’s six representative log combinations simultaneously, beyond just buildings.