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Estonian tradition of saun was transformed into a floating pavilion.
The assignment was to built a sauna on top of two pontoons which were used a long time ago in a harbour construction and left unused at our client yard.
“Nomadic kindergarten“
– EAL Annual Exhibition “Playing people. 8 visions of kindergarten architecture”
Children are so inventive and smart. They know where and how to play.
Why not kindergarten chooses own place and possibility? Why not use whole city as well as outside of the city for playing?
One Latvian curator invited for the Paper Object Festival as a part of Riga 2014, European Capital of Culture. During the site visit around cozy wooden house district of Pārdaugava and the Kalnciema Quarter there was found a graffitied stone building at the edge of small park. It was a Zvirbulis (sparrow in Latvian) library, lonely-looking one-storey building. We found there can be something what architect can do through installation.
The installation was designed to support the main event for the 2nd Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB), the curator exhibition, which took place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The building is considered Estonia’s first modernist high-rise building that was built in 1968 under the Soviet rule as the “White House” of the Estonian Communist Party Central Committee (architects Mart Port, Uno Tölpus, Olga Konchayeva, Raine Karp, engineer E. Uustalu). Today, the building is under cultural heritage protection and is considered an outstanding example of the 1960’s architecture.
The seasonal vending kiosks of icecream are to refresh the image of summer resort town of Pärnu. The shell made of woven birch veneer was intended to display rich tradition of handcraft in the street.
Saue Town is located just south of Tallinn City. Local government had reorganized the park which is used in festivals including the Midsummer Day. Their next idea was to make a sun dial that works with shadows of the standing person. Our proposal was to use it also as “a carpet in the park”, for sitting, playing, and picnicing. The rather free form was accepted by them as a shape of a leaf of oak, symbol of the town as well as the national tree of Estonia. The line of stainless steel plate on the pigmented concrete base, inscribed with names of donator, indicates time. The sun dial works between 7 to 18 during the daylight saving time.
The Linnahall, built for the Tallinn Olympic Regatta held in 1980, was the first and only place offering common people access to the sea within the centre of the city during the Soviet era since all the port area was closed off. The low mastaba-like structure of the building was so designed to preserve a view of the Old Town from Tallinn Bay. The design of the Linnahall, by Raine Karp and Riina Altmäe, still appears fresh and modern.
When considering nature of the Congress and scale of the whole exhibitions happening simultaneously, we thought it was necessary to communicate through a simple but strong concept to present who we are and what we think. We prefered to answer to the main theme of the Congress ” DESIGN 2050″ than exhibiting the projects from 3 Baltic States. Through the open competition we found suitable proposal, which was by Mark Grimitliht, an Estonian student incorporating a “Globe”, 2-meter diameter ball of modelling clay. This was to be a playground where everyone could demonstrate their vision of the year 2050, thus the visions would be the future of our environment.