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Although digitalisation has diminished the importance of scale of models in architectural design, they may provide more space for the imagination than other design tools.
The pavilion, designed by Maiju Suomi and Elina Koivisto, offers a place for encounters between humans and other species, to observe the environment and discuss it.
In the three schools of architecture in Finland, the curriculums have recently included only a few courses dealing with colour. “It is time to learn to think about the colour of our environment already at the sketching phase”, write three recently graduated architects.
In François Schuiten’s comic books, architectural utopias quickly become dystopias.
In recent decades, the perimeter block has become the go-to urban typology in Finnish urban planning and a symbol of urban life. If you take a closer look at the form, however, it does not create life around it as such. The potential lies in more subtle design choices.
