ALVAR AALTO

&
HIS WORKS

ARYA PRIYA M
 ALVAR AALTO

• Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finnish architect

and designer.
• Born: 03 February 1898
• Died: 11 May 1976
• Occupation: architecture, furniture, textiles and
glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings.
• Inventor of bent plywood furniture.
• Got inspired by culture of Mediterranean.
• His furniture design we’re considered Scandinavian
Modern.
 PAIMIO CHAIR
• The Paimio Chair is also known as Chair 41.
• Replaced cold steel with warm wood.
• one of the icons of furniture design.
• Depth: 33-1/2 inches, Width: 23 inches, Height: 25-1/4 inches
• Its lightness and structural genius are without compare.
• He experimented With plywood & molded birch From his native Finland.
• The seat and back are fashioned from the same piece of molded wood which
terminates In volutes at either ends.
• These volutes function as both structural and decorative element.
 PHILOSOPHY

• Found inspiration in nature and his surroundings.

• He used to say that every piece of furniture that is in direct contact with human body should be
of natural material.
• Part of Modern Movement of Architecture.
• Created his own style from an interpretation of modernism.
• Focused on locally available materials and functionality.
• Emphasised use of wood for warmth of his projects & stronger connection with local nature.
• With his innovative designs and nature forms he changed the course of design towards Organic
Modernism.
• Humanistic design.
FAMOUS WORKS
• The Aalto Vase, also known as the Savoy Vase is a piece of
glassware created by Alvar Aalto and his wife Aino that has become
an internationally known iconic piece of Finnish design.

• Three legged Stacking stool was an innovative and and strong L-

leg of which the construction technique based on bending bending
solid wood.

• Four legged bar stool was also same as three legged Stacking stool
but had 4 legs. Its top Had natural birch veneer
PAIMIO SANATORIUM
FINLANDIA HALL (1971)

• This seaside concert hall is a centerpiece of the

Finnish capital, boasting a towering auditorium and
high roof (meant to improve acoustics), curving
balconies and an exterior of white marble and black
granite.
• Construction: 1967- 1971
• Tower-like section with a sloping roof.
• For Aalto, the marble was a Mediterranean culture
which he wanted to bring to Finland.
MUURATSALO EXPERIMENTAL HOUSE (1953)

• An island home that served as Aalto’s workspace and proving

ground for decades.
• The L-shaped structure is in a clearing surrounded by boulders
and stones are covered with moss, bilberry and lingonberry
bushes.
• Aalto played with and experimented with ceramics, solar
heating and bricks
• Location: western shore of the island of Muuratsal
• summer home
BAKER HOUSE

• Designed in 1946 while he was a professor at the

Massachussets Institute of Technology.
• It received its name in 1950, after the MIT's Dean of
Students Everett Moore Baker was killed in an airplane
crash that year.
• Location: North America
• unique wave shape
• Dormitory
• Six floors
SECTION AND ELEVATION
• Its undulating shape which allows most rooms a view of the Charles River, and
gives many of the rooms a wedge-shaped layout.
• The plan is composed around a single-loaded corridor.
• luminous dining hall overlooking the Charles River.
• The site runs along the north side of the Charles River.
• The form established a wide variety of room shapes, creating 43 rooms and 22
different room shapes per floor that although similar.
• The plan is composed around a single-loaded corridor.
• Aalto refused to design north-facing rooms since he wanted most rooms to
have a view of the river from the east or west, and thus proposed enlarging the
rooms on the western end into large double and triple rooms that receive both
northern and western light.
• stairway systems is housed on the north side of the building.
• dark red rustic bricks
• The lower floor is lit with circular lights
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