paimio sanatorium

behind the splash-free noiseless washbasin, the use of Enso’s fibreboard and pulp-paper wallpaper in the patient room walls and ...

Chapter 3 | The Building of Paimio Sanatorium window was informed by the hygienic considerations pointed out by medical advisors ...

3.6 A Massive Infrastructure Project Brought into a Pristine Landscape F or the purposes of this dissertation, infrastructure wa ...

Fig. 3.6a. The biological wastewater treatment plant was built in 1932. Photo No. 50-003-518. AAM. ...

Fig. 3.6.1a. The image shows the hot-water radiators that were mounted on the ceiling, and the hot-water radiator in the corrido ...

Fig. 3.6.1c. Aalto’s standard drawing of a wall-mounted radiator. It would appear that the radiator design was never finished by ...

air. According to Aalto, the radiator heaters where therefore an economic alternative for a tuberculosis sanatorium, where rooms ...

a decision on which Aalto left a dissenting opinion in the minutes.^922 Thus Aalto failed to form the collaborative team, a stro ...

early stages of the work, Aalto familiarised himself more thoroughly on radiator heater markets, and learnt that the radiators c ...

Fig. 3.6.1e. View of the boiler room of the heating plant in the D wing. Photographer Gustaf Welin, 1933. Photo No. 50-003-404. ...

subsequently decided to build one based on Granqvist’s proposal.^936 Aalto was clearly unconvinced about the solution, as he ask ...

Fig. 3.6.1f. View of the heating system controls. The incoming and outgoing heating pipes at the heating plant were different in ...

since 1930. The water pipe system, including the well, the pumps and water storage tank, had already been completed and the pipe ...

Chapter 3 | The Building of Paimio Sanatorium grates for the steam boilers that would allow the burning of wood as an alternativ ...

The heating requirements of the rooms were calculated based on design specifications, with certain exceptions. When the outdoor ...

Chapter 3 | The Building of Paimio Sanatorium were keen to know when Aalto would be able to deliver a proposal.^949 The architec ...

3.6.2 OWN POWER PLANT OR ELECTRICITY FROM A LOCAL PROVIDER? Finnish domestic electricity production increased seven-fold between ...

Hankkija’s report stated that establishing a separate power plant for the sanatorium would require the acquisition of larger boi ...

to reduce its consumption-based rates on the grounds of the difficult economic sit- uation.^965 It would appear that Suopanki, t ...

line, the question of reserve capacity was crucial. The reserve capacity was designed for the lighting and power supply and the ...