In 2011, the Helsinki City Property Committee decided to look for a new concept and architectural look for the café that was to be built in Pyhä Birgitta Park.
The concept "active park" came out on top. Architecturally sculptural design was to be a forerunner for the spirit in which the area is to be built further.
The building is at a crossroads in an open landscape where it needs to assert its role and be active in every direction: it has no front or back. It is transparent and accessible to a point of comfortable thoroughfare.
The building shelters from wind and rain and, no less importantly, provides a magnificent frame for the memorable view from this particular site.
The building complex is made up of three log-framed structures of various heights laid out in an almost propeller shape. Between the blocks is a covered space with glass partitions at two sides. One of the blocks houses the kitchen and sales counter, the second facilitates the toilets and maintenance, and the third is a "lounge" with a fireplace — the heated area.
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