Jokiniemen koelaitos (Ånäs försöksanstalt)

English translation (from the Finnish)

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Description

Jokiniemi Experimental Farm is a representative example of a research and experimental institution built to promote agriculture, established by the state authorities. The built environment, which spans several decades, is a culturally and architecturally valuable whole.

The oldest layer of the building stock of the agricultural economic experimental farm established on the Ånäs estate in Tikkurila consists of Art Nouveau-style laboratory buildings built at the beginning of the 20th century, and red-brick livestock buildings of the same age. The younger buildings in the area are institutional buildings and staff residential buildings built in the 1920s-1960s.

The oldest buildings at Jokiniemi were designed by architect H.Rh. Helin of the Agricultural Board in 1906 for research centre activities. Institutional buildings I and II are three-storey, rendered Art Nouveau buildings completed in 1909. At the north end of institutional building I there is an imposing entrance sheltered by a canopy supported on columns, through which horses could drive in experimental and sample batches. Institutional building II was built for use by the agricultural chemistry and physics department and the entomology department. A greenhouse, which has been demolished, was attached to it on the south-east side. The long-cornered, log-built grain granary storehouse dates from 1908, and a year later the log-built above-ground part of the staff cellar was completed. In the farmyard of the institution, south of Kuriirintie, the wooden stableman's residence and the farm manager's residence, as well as the brick-framed cowshed and stable, are located.

The institutional building of the Agricultural Research Centre dating from 1938 was designed by architect Jalmari Peltonen. It is located east of the oldest institutional buildings. The utility building dates from 1950. The institutional building designed by architect Osmo Sipari, dating from 1964, is located on a bend of the river, at the south-west corner of the research institution area.

North of Tikkurilantie there are residential houses for professors and assistants.

History

The Agricultural Board (1892-1917) established the Jokiniemi agricultural economic experimental farm in Helsinki rural municipality in 1898 for research and experimental cultivation. The experimental farm originally consisted of five departments. The institution became the Agricultural Research Centre (MTT) in 1957. Farming and animal husbandry became difficult in the midst of the growing city, so the institution moved to Jokioinen in 1981. Since then, the Jokiniemi institutional buildings have been in the use of the Finnish Forest Research Institute, and the farmyard buildings have been under the administration of the rakennushallitus.

The Finnish Forest Research Institute had a new office wing and a central laboratory built for the institutional building completed in 1964 and designed by Osmo Sipari. The agricultural chemistry department of the Plant Production Inspection Centre (KTTK) operated in the institutional building completed in 1938 and designed by architect Jalmari Peltonen until 2006, when it moved to the Viikki campus.