Transitioning Energy (and) Landscapes: Exploring infrastructural, architectural and landscape symbiosis

The North Sea region’s energy transition has begun. The prospect of how it will happen and what it will look like, however, is still shrouded in uncertainty. What is clear is that this is a mammoth project of unprecedented scale. The sheer quantity of renewables we need to integrate into our energy infrastructures will transform our peri-urban...

Spirit of Place: A Whiskey Distillery in the Irish Countryside

This thesis explores the potential of the production space in the countryside as an architecture of economic activity and logic, and as an architecture of social encounters. The project proposes a mid-sized distillery that downsizes and deconstructs, and where the production of whiskey is broken down into seven stages and spaces. The distancing,...

Composite Countryside: A Shed for Production

This project is an experimental start to investigating the countryside from its own spatial perspective. Even though my focus is limited to Estonia, many of the points raised share characteristics with other places. The research project “The Project of Reading Landscapes” discusses the influence of various agents on the countryside landscapes...