Alvar Aalto

Alvar Aalto has left his handprints in Kauttua during the years of 1937 - 1944. He designed many buildings in the area and all of them are somehow connected to the paper mill of Ahlstrom.

Porrastalo was designed in year 1938 and it was completed the same year. It is a four storey building made of concrete, and there is one appartment in its every floor. There are no staircases typical to apartment buildings. Instead the entrance to each appartment goes directly from the slope. The roofs of the appartments are the terraces to the upper appartments.

Attention! Appartments are in private use and it is not possible to get inside them!

Alvar aalto designed these wooden houses for the workers in the paper factory. First drawings of these houses were made in the year 1937. In 1940's many so called A-houses were built to Varkaudenmäki in Kauttua.

Attention! Buildings are in private use and it is not possible to get inside them!

Aalto designed a rooming house for the factory's female workers and for single official women. It has twelve rooms and it was built in years 1942-43. Back then It was known as name Tipula, but nowadays it is known as Villa Aalto.

Nowadays Kauttuan Klubi arranges accommodation in guesthouse Villa Aalto.

Alvar Aalto designed sauna- and laundry building for the workers in the paper factory. It was build in year 1946. There is a laundry downstairs and sauna upstairs. Lower part of the building is made of bricks and the upper part is made of logs. The roof of the laundry forms a terrace for sauna.

Nowadays the building is in the ownership of Jokisauna.