Experts in Urbanism – Rap Music Echoes with the Experiences of Young Members of Minorities
Rap music echoes with the experiences of young members of minorities regarding their lives and living environments. Music linked to neighbourhoods may open up a local perspective on urban planning – provided that the planners recognize the potential to be found within the rap scene.
How to Plan Unplanned Encounters? A Formula Explains What to Take into Account When Designing Urban Blocks
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.
Many Faces of Care
Who does architecture take care of? How should architecture itself be cared for? We asked architects to provide different viewpoints.
Architecture of Care in a Welfare State
A child receives a triple vaccine in a health care clinic in Kuusamo in 1961. Photo: Finnish Heritage Agency Finns have alternately built and dismantled the welfare state, depending on political power relations.
Towards a Pattern of a Healthy City
Along with the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been a growing interest in the impact of the living environment on health and wellbeing. A research consortium led by the University of Oulu is trying to find out how future epidemics can be tackled by means of urban planning.
Dressing Care in New Clothes
The 2010s started a construction boom in the Finnish social and healthcare service sector. What kind of architecture has it produced? We collected recently completed and ongoing projects.
Changes and Losses of Hospital Architecture
With the new healthcare buildings, a large number of old care buildings will be demolished or modified for new use. What kind of architecture and building heritage will we lose in the process?
Concept: Thermal Comfort
Norms and expectations for indoor temperatures are culturally dependent. Therefore they could be also questioned, argues Frans Saraste.
Natural Ventilation is More Energy Efficient Than Its Reputation
Writers of the book Ilmakirja present some research results on the energy efficiency of natural ventilation systems.