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Outside Otakaari 2A

Whether you are traveling by car, metro, bus, tram or bike, you won’t have a hard time finding and reaching Otakaari 2A, as it is located right at the heart of the campus.

Illustration image: SARC Architects

Event lobby, 1st floor

As you enter through the glass doors, the first thing you will see is our visitor galleria – the building’s main meeting and information point, where you can learn about Aalto University and ways to explore the campus, and even take a virtual walkthrough of Otaniemi.  

On this first floor you can also find large event spaces with high ceilings and cutting-edge audio-visual technologies (event lobby, event studio and e-sports theatre). Events in these spaces will offer a forum that will connect people from different fields and backgrounds, and will showcase Aalto University’s experiments in business, art, technology and science. The approach is digital-first, catering not just for the onsite audience, but also reaching to off-campus and global audiences. 

The facilities, AV-equipment and services for producers will take Aalto University events to a new level, both on campus and virtually. In the data studio, researchers, students and partners will measure and understand collective human experiences in connection with different productions. Students and staff working on various creative projects will be able to loan the required AV and IT equipment from the Takeout. Last, but not least, the restaurant on this floor will keep everybody well fed and hydrated.

Illustration image: SARC Architects

Multicamera facilities, 2nd floor

Let’s take the stairs or the elevator to the next floor.  

On this floor you will find a variety of AV facilities, such as a video and graphics hub and rooms for video editing, audio editing and color correction to name just a few. Main users of these facilities come from the departments of the School of Arts, Design and Architecture. In addition, this floor hosts digitalization of learning facilities for all and some general office spaces. 

Photo: Aalto Studios

MAGICS visualisation, 3rd floor

The top floor of the building is where the magic happens. The national MAGICS infrastructure aims to fuel new research and innovations through the digitalization of perceptual data from humans and their surroundings.

On this floor you will find a variety of fascinating studio spaces used by Aalto researchers interested in virtual reality, immersive audio lab, visualizations, computer games, animation and user experience. In addition to these studio facilities, you will also find several project rooms that will be used by different research and arts projects, as well as some teaching spaces.  

Illustration image: Igloo Vision Ltd

MAGICS VR studio, 3rd floor

All the facilities in this floor are interconnected to one another and the other floors through high-speed fiber network that enables, for example, the joint use of the Data Studio on the first floor and Behavioral Laboratory on the third floor.

If you think that this can’t get any better, picture also the e-sports and lanhub, self-service studio, green screen studio and smart stage, to be used for digitalization of learning, media production, innovative projects and events. 

Photo: Aalto Studios