![Jallukka House for Musicians / Talli Architecture and Design - Table, Sofa, Chair, Beam](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5bc5/ec27/f197/cc91/e100/02c4/medium_jpg/musicians.jpg?1539697694)
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Architects: Talli Architecture and Design
- Area: 6302 m²
- Year: 2017
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Photographs:Tuomas Uusheimo
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Manufacturers: Ruukki, Paroc, Petersen Tegl, Skaala, Upofloor
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Lead Architects: Pia Ilonen, Mikaela Neuvo
![Jallukka House for Musicians / Talli Architecture and Design - Windows, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5bc5/eb1a/f197/cc91/e100/02ba/medium_jpg/alley_side_corner.jpg?1539697424)
Text description provided by the architects. Helsinki’s Live Music Association ELMU initiated a project to develop affordable rental flats for people in music business – vocalists and musicians as well as technicians and roadies. In 2017 the house called Jallukka was completed in the new Helsinki city district of Jätkäsaari.
![Jallukka House for Musicians / Talli Architecture and Design - Windows, Wood, Brick, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5bc5/eb80/f197/cc17/1200/05b4/medium_jpg/Corten.jpg?1539697522)
The atmosphere of the area – still largely under development – is maritime yet urban. Jallukka is situated in a dense urban fabric off the traffic arteries. In the alley-side corner of the L-shaped building there’s a bar appropriate to a musicians’ house.
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The eight-storey building consists of two wings: one with flats for musicians accessed via a gallery and the other is served through a central corridor. The ground floor has two-storey apartments with direct entrances from the street and the courtyard. The sizes of the flats vary from 30 to 75 square metres and each one has a private balcony.
![Jallukka House for Musicians / Talli Architecture and Design - Windows, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5bc5/eb2a/f197/cc91/e100/02bb/newsletter/alley_side_facade.jpg?1539697440)
The building has extensive communal spaces and terraces, such as laundry and sauna facilities and club rooms. In the basement there are rehearsal rooms for playing music. The building shares a communal deck-structured courtyard with the other buildings of the urban block. Below the deck there’s a parking garage.
![Jallukka House for Musicians / Talli Architecture and Design - Windows, Chair](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5bc5/ec00/f197/cc17/1200/05b8/medium_jpg/Musician_playing.jpg?1539697654)
Both the interiors of the apartments as well as the exterior of the building have a strong material sense. For example, the concrete surface of the partitions between the flats is left bare. The choice to use straight-forward materials is partly justified by aiming for reasonable-cost housing. The alley-side facade is of light grey handmade brick whereas the recessed top floors are covered with profiled aluminium sheeting. The musicians’ wing is enveloped in corten steel – bringing to mind the colour of Jaloviina, a Finnish cut brandy often favoured by rockers.
![Jallukka House for Musicians / Talli Architecture and Design - Windows, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5bc5/ebd1/f197/cc17/1200/05b7/newsletter/courtyard_wiev.jpg?1539697607)