Korteniitty, Jyväskylä
Korteniitty, Jyväskylä Planning work 2002-2003, approved 2006. The Korteniitty housing area is adjacent to the 1960, suburb of Kortepohja. The chosen infill plan signals a controlled densifying of the community structure. The infill plan with its different types of blocks and houses brings diversity to the area’s building stock. At the same time, it will help ensure that […]
Horisontti/Horizon, Helsinki
Horisontti Housing Aurinkolahti, Helsinki, 2004 The unique frontal location of Horisontti (Horizon) Housing provides open views, an essential element for the seaside architecture. The Horisontti apartments are light and plain, the store lines divide all-height glazed balcony zone. The ground floor apartments are different and exploit the position in many ways. Two row-house -like apartments have direct outdoor entrance through small gardens on the parking deck. The seaside floors are […]
Madetojankuja, Helsinki
Madetoja Service Center for Elderly People Pukinmäki, Helsinki, 2005, 2016 The Madetoja Service Center for Elderly People was previously known as the Pukinmäki retirement home, designed by architect’s office Esko Hyvärinen in 1978. The Pukinmäki district in Helsinki has always been very uniform in its visual appearance. The reddish facade made of square prefabricated building units with […]
Teema, Helsinki
Teema Housing, 2003 Arabianranta, Helsinki Based on an design & construct competition 2002. The architecture of the Teema Housing, located at the sea coast of Arabianranta district, is based on the relation between the houses and surrounding sea shore landscape. The views from the apartments, and the balconies and gardens linked to the dwellings also had […]
Meripoika, Helsinki
Meripoika Housing Kallahti, Vuosaari, Helsinki, 2000
Normanndia Gardens, St Petersburg, Russia
NORMANNDIA GARDENS INVITATIONAL INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION, 2ND PRIZE, 2008 Project offers a flexible system of town houses with a small own garden and entrance from a residential alley. The reasonable sizes of houses prefer mostly two-storey houses which makes it very challenging to find a solution which is dense enough for the demanded volume but still […]
Hopeasalmenranta, Helsinki
Hopeasalmenranta Detached Houses Kulosaari, Helsinki, 2001 Hopeasalmenranta Housing company consists of two detached houses by the sea. The plot was sectioned off the grounds of a large jugendstil villa. The buildings were located down by the shore to leave space around the old villa and to preserve the trees in the middle area of the site. The […]
Santa´s Technology Park & Santa’s Runway, Rovaniemi
SANTA´S TECHNOLOGY PARK, INVITED COMPETITION, ROVANIEMI, 2000 I PRIZE ÄLYLAAVUT JA JOULUPUKIN KIITORATA, (HIGH TECH LEAN-TO’S & SANTA´S RUNWAY) The Santa’s Technology park is located on the Arctic Circle, close to the Santa Claus Village and Santa Park. The road to the airport runs through the wide central “Light Glade”, an almost natural swamp lightened with […]
Sorakatu, Valkeakoski
Sorakatu 2 Housing, Valkeakoski, 1997 1. price, invited competition, “Koskiporras”
Sissosenpolku, Helsinki
ASO-ASUNNOT OY/SISSOSENPOLKU, 1994 Right of occupancy Housing Herttoniemi, Helsinki Quotation, “Residential Environments in Finland, State Subsidized housing production 1984-1995”: These distinctively massed low-rise blocks have been scattered like boulders in the rocky forest and adjusted with subtle type variation to the demanding terrain. Sand-lime brick and wood elevations have been enriched with rhythmical detail. The […]