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Joensuun region

Best of the Joensuu region
– Penttilänranta
The Joensuu region offers everything you need to lead a good life. Situated amidst an
untouched natural environment with beautiful waterways, the region is home to many
successful enterprises and offers excellent service provision, a wealth of leisure activities,
reasonably priced homes, a range of job opportunities and well-functioning transport
connections. New opportunities are also opening up in the region. Over the next few
years, a new residential and employment area – Penttilänranta – will gradually develop
in the vicinity of the city centre, along the shore of the Pielisjoki River.
MADRID

In the Joensuu region, modern people fulfil
their dreams. Versatile service provision
is available close to nature, while wellfunctioning transport connections and
excellent service networks make life amidst
the beautiful, hilly and wooded landscape
enviably easy-going. The Joensuu region is
also great for those who engage actively
in leisure-time hobbies – here you’ll find
the full range of possibilities within arm’s
reach. Diverse cultural offerings and exercise
opportunities enhance the quality of life.
Excellent transport connections and a
location close to the eastern border bring
logistic advantages to companies targeting
the extensive Russian and Scandinavian
markets. Diversified educational and research
activities help companies achieve success in
the future too.

blocks, two sites have been designated for
high-rise construction.
Wooden blocks of flats will also be
constructed in the area. At the first stage, a
developer is being sought for the construction
of a wooden block of flats on a plot sized
3,300 k-m² with building rights for a gross
floor area of 3,100 m². A developer will later
be sought for another, much larger project,
22 000 m² (three plots), with building rights
for a gross floor area of 24,900 m². The
number of flats in the first stage will probably
be 40 to 50, and 330 to 350 in the second. In
the first stage, the construction height will be
five storeys and four to five in the second.
Over the next 20–30 years, 1,500 residences
housing 3,000 inhabitants will be built in
Penttilänranta.

HELSINKI
STOCKHOLM
SAINT
PETERSBURG
MOSCOW
BERLIN
PARIS

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aimed at expediting the construction work
and finding practicable, high-quality, diverse
and innovative implementation solutions. The
Penttilänranta project has also participated
in several research projects and received
accolades in various competitions.

A compact, comfortable, green city
Penttilänranta – a trendsetter
A sizeable area with blocks of flats,
Penttilänranta, is to be constructed in
Joensuu on the shore of the Pielisjoki River.
The architecture of Penttilänranta adds a new
element to the Joensuu city centre. The area is
developing into a desirable, urban residential
and employment area that takes advantage
of the riverside scenery and is proud of
its history, with exemplary low energy
consumption and environmental load.
The area to be constructed comprises
roughly 25 hectares, while the area in
its entirety totals around 50 hectares.
Construction in the area is urban and
relatively dense in character. Most of the
buildings are 4–6 storeys high. In the central

In between the constructed areas will be parks
and squares. Building on the shores, easy
routes, high-quality street areas and open
public spaces make the area comfortable
for everyone. Starting in the planning
stage, efforts will be taken to minimise
energy consumption and environmental
load. Examples of these include light-traffic
solutions and lighting that utilises the latest
LED technology, along with low-energy
structural solutions. In many different ways,
the Penttilänranta project has sought a new
form of functional culture.
A planning partnership was tested in
Joensuu for the first time when construction
companies were invited to participate in
finalising the draft plan. Early collaboration

Diverse artwork is exhibited extensively
throughout the Penttilänranta residential
area, where one percent of the
implementation costs of both environmental
and housing construction is invested in art
acquisition. The City of Joensuu acquires art
for parks and squares while the art in the
yards, on the facades and in the stairways
of blocks of flats is acquired by private
home builders. Artists, too, have discovered
Penttilänranta – nearly 200 artists from
different parts of Finland have registered with
the Artist Bank.

antti.heikkinen@josek.fi
Tel. + 358 50 331 5988
tero.toivanen@jns.fi
Tel. + 358 50 310 9779