In addition to the parking facility, the hybrid building in Kruunuvuorenranta residential area by NRT Architects also fits communal facilities as well as a vertical pedestrian access leading from the street level to the park.
The design of a student housing block to be built on a cramped plot in the University of Helsinki’s Kumpula campus had to take into account, among other things, traffic noise, pollution, the scale of existing campus architecture and large differences in ground height.
In her first, genre-mixing book, Helmi Kajaste discusses architecture, cinema and architecture in cinema. Films try to persuade us that they are real, living, moving things when in actual fact they are just a series of still images.