This is the pack we send once your booking is agreed. It covers the Gallery, the Aula, the Auditorium and the 2nd-floor co-creation space — the same rules apply in all of them. ODDspace sits inside a shared office building with other tenants, a parking hall and a round-the-clock alarm system, and most of what follows exists to keep those alarms quiet and our neighbours undisturbed. Read it once, send it to your crew, and ask us about anything it doesn't answer. This pack is Schedule 2 of your venue hire agreement: the version in force on the day you sign is the one that applies, we can update practical details before your event by telling you in writing, and if anything here conflicts with the agreement, the agreement wins.
Last updated: 15 October 2026
In short
Five things matter more than the rest. Everything below is the detail behind them.
Confirm your event details with us at least 7 days before the event.
No smoke, haze, steam, vaping or candles indoors. Each one sets off the fire alarm.
Guests stay in the spaces you booked: no elevators, upper floors or parking hall.
More than 100 guests means a licensed security steward on site.
Leave it as you found it — cleaned, trash out — before your alarm window ends.
The Gallery
The Gallery — 150 people, 320 m².
150 people, 320 m², at street level. The big room: openings, receptions, launches, concerts, club nights, comedy. Its floor takes a crowd and its walls are usually hung with work, so tell us early if you need them clear.
The back door is an emergency exit only. It opens straight into the Ukraine Centre next door and its alarm is always on.
The Aula
The Aula — where people arrive, leave their coats and keep talking.
30 people. The room your guests arrive into: registration, coats, drinks, the conversation that spills out of a talk. Rarely booked on its own, and the reason a Gallery event feels organised rather than crowded at the door.
The Auditorium
The Auditorium — 50 seated, 150.2 m², entered from Sturenkatu.
50 seated, 150.2 m², with fixed tiered seating, a large screen, a microphone and a sound system. Talks, panels, screenings, workshops, AGMs.
Capacity here is set by the number of seats, so unlike the other rooms it does not flex upward for a standing crowd. It sits on the first floor of the building's meeting and event centre, and guests reach it from the Sturenkatu side through the main doors rather than through the ODDspace entrance — worth putting in your invitation.
The 2nd-floor co-creation space
The 2nd-floor co-creation space — 150 people.
150 people, one floor up. Seminars, workshops, away-days, dinners, smaller parties — the room that suits a day-long programme better than an evening crowd.
This floor connects to the building's elevators and parking hall, which is why guest flow here needs a plan. See the house rules.
Using more than one room
Capacities add up when you book several spaces: Gallery, Aula and Auditorium together come to 230 people. Capacity is the most people inside at one time, and it counts everyone — guests, crew and performers.
These figures follow the building's guidance as of September 2026. The limits for combined use are still being confirmed with the property, so we'll give you the current number when you book. Going over the stated capacity is grounds for stopping an event.
What we're not the right room for
Haze-heavy club shows, at least until the smoke-machine arrangement with the building is sorted. Anything needing a commercial kitchen. A 200-person standing crowd in one room. Loud bass past 22:00 without the property's approval.
Better you hear it now than after a site visit. If your concept needs one of those things, tell us early and we'll tell you honestly whether it can be arranged.
What every booking includes
The room, the basics that live in it, and a walkthrough before the day.
The space during your booked hours, setup and clean-up included.
Tables and chairs, set out in the layout you ask for when you confirm your details.
House lighting and heating.
Toilets and the coffee point.
PA sound system and one microphone.
Wi-Fi, though it can be slow: bring a mobile hotspot for anything you're streaming.
A walkthrough of the room, the exits and the equipment before the day.
What isn't included
Ask us to confirm the exact equipment for your date — the kit is shared between rooms and moves around. Anything that plugs into more than a normal socket, or that needs rigging, has to be agreed with us in advance. If you need room dimensions, ceiling height, power circuits or rigging points for a production plan, ask and we'll send the current figures.
Cleaning: you clean, or you book a cleaner through us.
Your own get-in and get-out, and putting the room back as you found it.
Camera or livestream gear, and extra microphones.
Catering, drinks and a bar licence.
Event staff, a technician or a host, unless booked as an add-on.
A security steward for events over 100 guests.
Staging, rigging, special lighting and anything power-hungry.
How booking works
Minimum lead time is 5 working days for a simple booking and 14 days for anything with production or over 100 guests. Prices depend on the spaces, the hours and the add-ons, so you get a written quote rather than a rate off a page.
Ask: tell us the date, the spaces, a rough headcount and what you're doing.
Offer: we check availability against the building's maintenance schedule and send a quote, normally within one working day.
Confirm: you sign the venue hire agreement and the date is held.
Details, 7 days before: you confirm the final times, headcount and on-site contact. We notify the building's security company, maintenance and the owner, and book the alarms off for your window.
Event day: keys are handed to you from the lobby, and someone from ODDspace is reachable throughout.
After: space cleaned and back to its original layout, trash out, keys returned, final invoice.
Cancellation, damage and insurance
Your signed venue hire agreement always takes precedence over this page. These are the standard terms behind it.
Cancelled 14 days or more before the event: free of charge.
7–13 days before: 50% of the booking. 3–6 days before: 75%. Under 3 days or a no-show: 100%.
If we cancel for a reason that isn't your breach of the agreement or force majeure, the hire fee you've paid comes back in full. Third-party costs we've ordered at your request and can't get back are charged on top of any cancellation fee.
Damage or loss caused by you, your crew, your suppliers or your guests is yours to cover, normal wear and tear excepted. Check that your insurance covers it.
Every event needs the organiser's own liability insurance, appropriate to what you're running. Show us the certificate if we ask.
If the space is left uncleaned, we clean it and bill you. A false fire alarm or a security call-out caused by your event is billed to you, as are the property's charges for anyone still inside after your window ends.
Invoices are due 14 days from the invoice date unless your agreement says otherwise, with late interest under the Finnish Interest Act.
The booking is for your event only. You can't pass the space on, sublet it or run something else in it without our written OK.
Before your event
One week out we need the final picture: date, the full time window from first crew in to last person out, the spaces, the largest number of people inside at once, what happens, your on-site contact person and their phone, who is cleaning, plus anything about alcohol, music after 22:00, filming or equipment you're bringing in.
We pass that to the building's security company (Securitas), property maintenance (ISS) and the owner (YIT), including the names and numbers of your on-site contact and your security steward, handled under our privacy policy. If it arrives late, the building's alarms stay on and the event can't go ahead as planned.
At booking: spaces, hours and quote agreed, agreement signed. Tell us now about alcohol, music after 22:00, more than 100 guests, or anything you're rigging.
14 days before: public event? File your police notification, and for 200 or more people your event rescue plan. Sort your music licence.
7 days before: final details confirmed with us. We notify Securitas, ISS and YIT and book your alarm window.
The day before: final headcount, crew briefed on the exits and house rules, cleaning sorted.
On the day: keys from the lobby, walk the exits with your crew, doors open.
After: clean, trash out, smoking area cleared, everyone out before the window closes, keys back.
Your time window is your alarm window
We ask the building to switch the alarms off for exactly the window you give us. Make it run from the first crew member in to the last person out after clean-up.
When the window ends, the alarms switch back on automatically. Give us 18:00–02:00 and the alarms are armed at 02:00, whether or not everyone has left. After that, a door held open longer than 30 seconds — or opened any way other than with a key or the door's own button — triggers the alarm and a security guard call-out, which the property can bill to the event.
Being in the building between 22:00 and 06:00, and amplified music after 22:00, both need the property's approval in advance. We arrange it, but only if we know in time.
What the organiser is responsible for
Some of this is ours to arrange and some of it is genuinely yours. This is the yours half.
Not every event needs a police notification, but a public event may need one at least 5 days ahead, or two weeks ahead if stewards or traffic control are involved. Events with 200 or more people present at once need their own rescue plan, filed with the rescue authority at least 14 days before. Indoor events here don't normally need a noise notification to the city; outdoor amplified sound at night does, 30 days ahead. Rules checked September 2026 — verify before you file. Send us a copy of any safety or rescue plan the authorities require, if we ask for it.
A licensed security steward for more than 100 guests, booked through a security company. Tell us who it is.
Alcohol. ODDspace holds no licence, so serving or selling it is yours, including the licence and the people checking ages. A temporary serving licence comes from Lupa- ja valvontavirasto, which took over from the regional agencies in January 2026 and asks for applications no later than a month before.
The music licence from Teosto and Gramex, if there's music of any kind — live, recorded or DJ. It's the organiser's, not the venue's.
Keeping guests out of the elevators, elevator lobbies, upper floors and the parking hall. Plan it: a crew member or steward at the stairwell, and clear signage.
Telling us what your guests need in terms of access, so we can walk the route with you before you publish your invitation.
Briefing your crew on the house rules and the code of conduct, both of which come with your booking.
Arrival, access and getting here
ODDspace is at Teollisuuskatu 9 D in Vallila. The building is Kiinteistö Oy Sturenportti, whose official address is Sturenkatu 16 — the one to give emergency services. Trams and buses stop on Teollisuuskatu and Sturenkatu.
Tell your guests the exact entrance, and which one: the Gallery, Aula and co-creation space are entered from Teollisuuskatu 9 D, while the Auditorium is reached from the Sturenkatu side through the building's main doors. People who guess end up in someone else's office building.
Keys are handed to you from the lobby at the start of your window and returned as agreed. Don't let anyone you don't know in through the building's access-controlled doors, and tell us immediately if a key or badge goes missing. Keys, codes and alarm instructions are for your crew only and come back to us at the end of your window. A lost key or badge is yours to pay for, including new locks and any security call-out.
Load-in: the service yard and loading dock are up the left-hand ramp from Elimäenkatu. Nothing can be delivered before your booked setup time, and pallets or gear left in the yard, corridors or stairwells are removed by the building without warning.
Parking: there's no visitor parking, and the parking hall is permit-only. A few short-term spaces on the lower yard take a parking disc for two hours, patrolled by the parking company. Point guests at public transport.
Setting up: we'll show you where the chairs and tables live. Setting the room up your way, and putting it back, is yours to do — book enough hours for both ends. Furniture stays in the building.
Catering: bring your own food and drink, or your own caterer. There's a coffee point and a fridge, no commercial kitchen, and cooking or heating equipment needs to be agreed in advance. Caterers take their own waste with them.
House rules
These are the ones that cost money or stop an event when they're broken. The fire detectors react to smoke, vapour and steam, and a false alarm brings the fire brigade with the cost billed to whoever caused it.
No smoke, haze, steam, vaping or candles indoors. Smoke and haze machines are not allowed for now — they need separate arrangements with building maintenance.
Smoking only outside at the entrance door, using the smoking pole for cigarette butts.
Open doors with a key or the door's own button, never by forcing the handle or lever, and never keep one open longer than 30 seconds. Never leave the door to your event unattended.
The Gallery's back door is an emergency exit only. It leads straight into the Ukraine Centre next door and its alarm is always on. In a real emergency it's an exit like any other.
Guests stay in the spaces you booked. Elevators are for your crew's load-in and trash runs only.
Keep exits clear: nothing in stairwells, corridors or in front of exits and exit signs, and no wedging fire doors open.
Amplified music after 22:00, and anyone in the building between 22:00 and 06:00, need the property's approval, arranged in advance through us.
Nothing nailed, taped or glued to the walls, no structural changes and nothing installed without asking first — freestanding is fine, and whatever we approve comes down before your window ends.
Brand your event, not the venue: ODDspace branding stays visible and the space stays ODDspace.
No animals except service animals.
After your event
The space should look exactly as it did when you arrived. This is the part most often underestimated, so book time for it inside your window.
Vacuum and mop the floors, clean the toilets, and put furniture and equipment back where they were. If it's left dirty, we clean it and bill you.
Take the trash out: elevator to the 3rd floor, through the glass door to the inner yard, sorted into the right bins. Special waste, like electrical or chemical waste, leaves with you.
Empty the smoking pole and pick up butts and litter in the yard outside the entrance.
Lights off, windows and doors closed and locked, everything you brought taken with you, keys returned as agreed — before the alarm window ends.
Anything left behind after your window may be removed or disposed of at your cost after a reasonable time. Leave nothing in the yard, corridors or stairwells: the building clears those without notice and without liability.
In an emergency
Call 112. Say: Sturenkatu 16, Helsinki, ODDspace, entrance Teollisuuskatu 9 D — then which floor and what happened. Stay on the line until you're told to hang up, and send someone out to meet the rescue services.
This is the short English version of the building's rescue plan. The full documents, in Finnish, come with your booking.
Fire: rescue anyone in immediate danger, warn others, press a fire alarm button and call 112, extinguish only if it's safe, close doors and windows behind you, and guide the fire brigade in. Extinguishers and hose reels are on every floor.
When the fire alarm sounds: everyone leaves at once by the nearest exit and never by elevator. You evacuate your own event — check toilets and side rooms, and help anyone with limited mobility.
Assembly point: the pavements outside the building's doors on Elimäenkatu, Sturenkatu and Teollisuuskatu. Don't wait in the doorways, don't leave and don't go back in until the fire brigade says so, and tell them if someone may still be inside.
Illness or injury: check whether the person responds and is breathing, put them in the recovery position if they're unconscious but breathing, start CPR if they're not, and call 112. The defibrillator is on the 3rd floor next to the Sture 16 restaurant cashier.
Water leak: cut the power near the leak if it's safe, then call ISS property maintenance on 0200 15 500, and 112 if needed.
Power cut: emergency lighting stays on and elevators stop. Stuck in an elevator, press its alarm button or call Onelift on 020 766 9766.
Threatening behaviour: stay calm, don't turn your back, keep a way out, move others away and call 112. If the person is armed, don't resist — call once you're safe.
General warning siren, a one-minute rising and falling tone: go inside, close doors and windows, and follow the news.
Questions organisers actually ask
Every one of these has been sent to us by someone running an event here. If yours isn't answered, ask — and it will end up on this page.
Who lets us in, and when do we get the key?
We agree it with you when you confirm the details a week before: either you collect the key from the lobby at the start of your window, or someone from ODD hands it to you. If you'd rather have it before the day, say so and we'll arrange that.
Can we get in earlier than the time we agreed?
Usually yes, but not on the morning. The hours you give us are the hours the building's alarms are switched off, and moving them means telling the security company, maintenance and the property owner again. Ask a few days ahead and it's straightforward.
Who do we call during the event if something needs someone from ODDspace?
The person who took your booking. Their direct number comes with your confirmation, and someone from ODDspace is reachable by phone for the whole of your window.
Anything urgent — fire, injury, a threat — is 112 first, then us.
Can we come and see the space before the event?
Yes, and we'd rather you did. Walk it with us, see where the exits, the chairs and the light switches are, and brief your volunteers from that rather than from this page.
Who is responsible if a guest is injured?
Responsibility in Finland generally follows negligence: someone failed a duty of care. An accident happening doesn't by itself make anyone liable.
Roughly how it divides: a guest tripping on sound stairs with nothing wrong with them, quite possibly nobody. Stairs that are slippery, badly lit, missing a railing or unmarked, ODDspace and possibly the building owner. A light, decoration or speaker your crew rigged, the organiser. A permanent fixture of ours coming down, ODDspace and possibly the building owner. Your cables across a walkway, the organiser. Something involving our staff, our tech or our service, ODDspace.
That's the principle, not legal advice, and it's why a public event needs the organiser's own liability insurance.
Where do we gather if the building has to be evacuated?
The pavements outside the building's doors, on Elimäenkatu, Sturenkatu and Teollisuuskatu. Don't hold people in the doorways, and nobody goes back in until the fire brigade says so.
You evacuate your own event, so walk the exits with your crew before doors open and know who is checking the toilets.
Can a guest wander into the rest of the building?
The doors into the rest of the building are access-controlled and your guests can't open them. What they can do is follow someone through one, which is why the door to your event is never left unattended and why elevators, elevator lobbies, upper floors and the parking hall are out of bounds.
If someone does end up somewhere they shouldn't, walk them back rather than leaving it — the alarms are the building's, not ours.
Can we close the door once the event has started?
Yes, and it's usually the calmest way to run a door: staff it for the arrival window, tell your guests the cut-off in advance, then close it. Don't prop it open while you wait, and don't hold it open longer than 30 seconds.
Is there a table for registration, and are there chairs?
Yes to both. Tell us the layout you want when you confirm your details and we'll set it out before you arrive — a registration table by the door, chairs in rows or clusters, whatever the event needs.
Put it back the way you found it at the end.
Will the toilets be stocked?
We keep them stocked. For a big event tell us the headcount a week ahead and we'll check them before you arrive; for anything over a hundred people it's worth bringing a spare pack yourself, and taking your rubbish out with the rest.
Floor plan: street level
Street level — Gallery (red), Aula (yellow), music studio (blue), Auditorium and lobby (green).
Everything at street level, colour-coded: the Gallery in red, the Aula in yellow, the Auditorium and its lobby in green, and the music studio in blue. The studio is ODDstudio and is booked separately from events — it is on the plan so you can see what sits behind which wall, not because it comes with your booking.
Teollisuuskatu runs along the bottom edge. Your ODDspace contact still walks the exits with you on site: that is the version that matters on the night.
Floor plan: 2nd floor
2nd floor — the ODDspace co-creation space in purple.
The co-creation space, outlined in purple: the whole floor ODDspace holds upstairs, with its own toilets and small rooms inside the outline. The building's lifts and lift lobbies sit immediately outside it, along with the numbered parking bays — which is exactly why guest flow on this floor needs a plan.
Building safety documents
The property's own documents, in Finnish, last updated 9 June 2026. "In an emergency" above is the short English version of them; these are the full text, and they are what a public-event notification or your own rescue plan should attach.
They are also published by the property at pelsu.fi/sturenkatu16.
Emergencies are always 112 first. For anything else, your ODDspace contact's direct number comes with your booking confirmation, and someone from ODDspace is reachable by phone throughout your event window.
Water leaks and technical faults, when you can't reach us: ISS property maintenance on 0200 15 500, weekdays 15:00–07:00 and weekends around the clock.
Anything that goes against the ODDspace code of conduct goes to Ronny, Aki or Upi directly — that's the whole escalation path, and it's in the code of conduct we send with your booking.
Events, open calls and things taking shape across ODDfest, ODDference and ODDspace. Occasional emails, when there is something worth sending.
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