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Riihikedon aravatalot

Pori, Satakunta, Finland

The record

Type
Nationally significant built cultural environment (RKY)
Elements (as the agency lists them)
asuinkerrostalo, kaava-alue, katutila, kaupungin asuintalo, puisto
Character (as the agency lists it)
kaupunki
Municipality
Pori
Region
Satakunta
Country
Finland
Coordinates
61.47861, 21.79639
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RKY number
4571

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Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)

The 1666 map covering this location: "Finlande Septentr.le, et Merid.le, Nylande, et Tavasthus" (Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1666 · Finlande Septentr.le, et Merid.le, Nylande, et Tavasthus (Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica))

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The Finnish Heritage Agency's description

Riihikedon yhtenäinen asuinalue edustaa varhaista aravatuotantoa.

Porin yhdeksännen kaupunginosan Riihikedon kolmikerroksiset lamellitalot ja seitsenkerroksiset pistetalot sijaitsevat viuhkamaisesti pienen keskuspuiston ympärillä.

Riihiketo valmistui sotien jälkeen arkkitehti Jaakko Laaksovirran laatiman asemakaavan mukaan. Rakennussuunnittelusta vastasivat pääasiassa arkkitehdit Jussi Lappi-Seppälä ja Iikka Martas.

Sotien jälkeen kaupunkien, kauppaloiden ja maalaiskuntien väkiluku kasvoi siirtolaisten vaikutuksesta. Maaseudulla mahdollisuudet pienimuotoiseen uudisrakentamiseen olivat ratkaistavissa. Kaupungeissa nopean rakentamisen ongelmana oli pääomien ja teollisuuskapasiteetin puute.

Asuntotuotannon valtuuskunta (Arava) perustettiin 1949. Se oli valtion elin, jolle keskitettiin sekä asuntotuotannon rahoitus, että rakennettavien asuntojen vuokraaminen. Järjestelmällä oli tarkoitus saada asuntotuotanto käyntiin erityisesti kaupunkitaajamissa. Arava myönsi valtion tukemia lainoja kaikille rakentajille, aina yksityisistä julkisiin rakentajiin.

Porissa aravatuotannon alueeksi valittiin 9. kaupunginosa, Riihiketo. Alueella oli Harald Andersinin 1920-luvulla tekemä umpikortteliasemakaava, joka 1938 oli uudistettu. Ensimmäinen uudisrakennus valmistui 1947. Keskuspuistoa rajaavien pistetalojen ryhmä oli valmiina 1952.

Jussi Koivuniemi, Joen rytmissä. Porin kaupungin historia 1940-2000. Porin kaupunki 2004.

Lauri Putkonen, Satakunnan rakennusperintö. Satakuntaliitto. Painamaton inventointi 2005.

English translation (from the Finnish)

The text above is the record as published by the Finnish Heritage Agency (Museovirasto), in Finnish. The English below is a machine translation made by TreeAlive, not by the Finnish Heritage Agency (Museovirasto); it has not been checked by a person. Where the two differ, the original is the record. Report a translation error: privacy@treealive.com

Riihikedo's uniform residential area represents early ARA-subsidised housing production.

The three-storey lamellitalot and seven-storey point blocks of Riihikedo, the ninth district of Pori, are arranged in a fan shape around a small central park.

Riihiketo was completed after the wars according to the town plan drawn up by architect Jaakko Laaksovirta. Building design was mainly the responsibility of architects Jussi Lappi-Seppälä and Iikka Martas.

After the wars, the population of towns, market towns and rural municipalities grew as a result of migration. In the countryside, the possibilities for small-scale new construction could be resolved. In the towns, the problem with rapid construction was a shortage of capital and industrial capacity.

The Housing Production Board (Arava) was established in 1949. It was a state body to which both the financing of housing production and the letting of the new dwellings were centralised. The system was intended to get housing production going especially in urban centres. Arava granted state-supported loans to all builders, from private to public.

In Pori, the 9th district, Riihiketo, was chosen as the area for Arava-funded production. The area had a perimeter block town plan made by Harald Andersin in the 1920s, which was renewed in 1938. The first new building was completed in 1947. The group of point blocks bordering the central park was ready in 1952.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Descriptions are shown with the written permission of the Finnish Heritage Agency and reproduced unchanged. Locations come from its open spatial data; pins are placed by TreeAlive. Finnish Heritage Agency (Museovirasto) · Spatial data: CC BY 4.0
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