Case Study: The lost and found Finnish sauna of the London 1948 Olympic Games
30 June 2021
18:30 -20:00
In 1948 the Finnish team at London Olympics had a sauna cabin built in the athletes' village. Designed as complete recovery and relaxation facility with a hot room, cold showers, massage tables for the athletics to prepare for and recover from competitions. After the Games the sauna was relocated from Richmond Park to Maidstone in Kent to the Reed Paper Mills sports grounds. It represented in many ways both the wood-building tradition, modular and mass produced modern post-war innovation . This was also a beginning of a trade between Finland and the UK on prefabricated modular system buildings. Find out more in our talk as we will be joined with amazing curators from the New Standards Exhibition at the Finnish Pavilion, Venice Biennale. Where they showcase the projects and impact by Puutalo Oy.
What can we learn from this modular system to make sauna accessible to everyone for post-pandemic recovery?
Tickets/Booking:
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Organiser:
British Sauna Society
Image: Wendy Liu
