Construction|In Kauniainen, a site plan is being completed, which arouses emotions. Some politicians and townspeople consider the so-called snake house to be too expensive and a bad fit for the environment.
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In Kauniais, a snake house is planned to replace the current town hall.
The project has aroused emotions and has been pending for almost a decade.
Bo-Christer Björk opposes the project due to architecture and economics.
Satu Mollgren advocates the project because of the need for new apartments.
In the beautiful ones a long and winding building, known as the so-called snake house, is arranged to replace the town hall.
The project, which lasted almost a decade, has aroused emotions in both the townspeople and politicians in one direction and the other.
The city’s purpose is to demolish the current town hall, which has been little used since the corona pandemic, and build a block of flats in its place, which will have business and administrative premises in addition to apartments. Käärmelato is hoped to become a new attraction for the city.
The project has stalled after the area’s site plan draft was made available to the townspeople in 2018. The townspeople were worried, for example, about its effects on green areas.
Since then, the plan has been modified several times along the way. The city’s will is to complete the formula during this election period.
The current town hall of Kauniainen is to be demolished.
Project doesn’t please everyone.
“Here, we have blindly started to promote wau architecture”, states the rkp city councilor, member of the community committee and professor emeritus of Hanken Bo-Christer Björk.
Björk says she opposed the project from the beginning for architectural reasons. In his opinion, the snake house does not fit into the environment naturally.
According to Björk, the city has a strong need to fix its deficit economy and future school investments by selling land for housing production.
“However, the plan has also completely failed in the financial sense.”
First of all, a curved building with two hundred apartments is expensive to implement, says Björk. Secondly, the consulting report commissioned by the city shows that the average price per square meter of the apartments should be at least 11,900 euros per square meter in order for the project to be profitable for the Grinder.
The sale price of the apartments would therefore be approximately 1.6 times the market price level in Kauniainen.
“There is absolutely no demand for such expensive apartments here.”
Björk’s on the opposite line is a member of the city board and the chairman of the coalition’s council group Fairy tale Mollgren.
In Mollgren’s opinion, it is clear that new apartments are needed in Kauniain, as the city’s population has shrunk for the last three years while planning has been stalled. And the most sensible place to build is the most central plot of land in the city along good transport connections, he says.
The development of the center is topical, because the town hall, completed in 1978, is in need of renovation and is too big for the needs of the city administration.
No decision has yet been made about where the city hall’s services will be in the future. According to Mollgren, one option would be the end reserved for the business and administrative premises of the snake building, or other city facilities that are rarely used.
Mollgren reminds that different solutions can still be made to the outer shell of the building, so that it fits as well as possible into its surroundings.
“Besides, the beauty has changed quite a lot in the last 50 years. There is no tradition here like in Helsinki about what the city should look like.”
There has been a discussion about the height and length of the snake house.
A few years ago, the same discussion as now about the snake house was also held about the apartment buildings built on Asematie, says Mollgren. Even then it was said that they would become so expensive that no one would be able to buy them.
However, according to him, the apartments were sold quickly as soon as the houses were completed. Mollgren believes that there is a demand for new apartments near good services in Kauniainen.
Mollgren admits that the project has divided politicians into two camps.
“On the other hand, I have yet to come across an issue in decision-making that does not divide opinions.”
Mayor by Christopher Masar in my opinion, the project has already lasted a frustratingly long time and it would be good to finally finish it.
He says that the snake house has understandably stirred up a lot of emotions. It is a valuable piece of land in the middle of the city, and it therefore affects many people.
According to him, the project has been refined along the way, closer and closer to an acceptable version.
Next Monday, October 7, the city will organize a public meeting on the site plan proposal for the area of the city hall. The formula proposal material is on the city’s website.
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