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N.L. Tilanus

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Inhabited Walls

Reimagining Tallinn’s City Wall as a Living Monument

Tallinn’s medieval city wall once stood as a powerful structure of defence. It was a strong threshold that divided inside from outside, us from them. While it played a vital role in shaping the city’s historic identity, its defensive purpose has long expired. Today, much of the w ...
Synergy in Paradox is a proposal for a new ferry terminal in Tallinn.

The current terminal offers an underwhelming entrance; its infrastructure forms a border between the city and the coastline; and the typology shows similarities to that of a racetrack. These observatio ...

Living Kopli Kaubajaam

Adaptive reuse of the industrial warehouse commplex in Kopli, Tallinn

This project envisions the transformation of a former railway warehouse complex in Kopli, Tallinn, into a hybrid dynamic community facility. Drawing from the site’s industrial memory and the theoretical framework of Terrain Vague, the design reclaims the in-between condition of t ...

Kesklinn Community Centre

Reimagining Soviet-Era Heritage through the Lenses of Memory and Perception

My graduation project explores the relationship between memories, perception, and Soviet-era architecture. The project site is the former "Turist" foreign currency shop in Tallinn, built for the 1980 Summer Olympics. As a Soviet-era building aimed at those with foreign currency, ...

Dynamic Space

An Exploration into Strategies for the Uncertainties in Architecture

Tallinn’s largest district Lasnamäe is based on a specific ideology, leaving it after Estonia’s independence from the Soviet Union incapable of adapting to new societal developments. Today, Lasnamäe is still mainly composed of monotonous Soviet-modernist housing slabs and lacks p ...

The Sociocultural Value of Tallinn's Nightlife

Club Culture in a Post-Soviet Context

The Methods of Analysis and Imagination graduation studio 2023-2024 focuses on A Matter of Scale, in the North-eastern European city of Tallinn. As we were free to synthesize an in-depth site-analysis of the city with our own fascinations, I decided on exploring the Estonian nigh ...

Linnahall Market

An exploration of the reuse of large abandoned buildings

This graduation project focuses on repurposing Tallinn’s abandoned Soviet-era Linnahall building, aiming to transform its deteriorated ice rink section into a vibrant market.
To align with Tallinn’s vision of creating a dynamic waterfront, the project reimagines the ice rink’ ...

Volta Cultural Center

The revitalization of post-industrial heritage

This project covers the revitalization of the former Volta Factory in Tallinn Estonia. This abandoned site or sleeping beauty holds lots of opportunity on many different local layers of the Kalamaja. Social, cultural, urban and many more detailed aspects are taken into account to ...

SeaLine

Where Nature and Water Sports Unite in the coastal zone of Tallinn

Sealine is an ambitious architectural proposal in the coastal zone of Tallinn, Estonia. The design for a sailing school on the peninsula between the Linnahall and the Ferry Terminal establishes the connection between sea, city, nature (the coastal landscape) and sky. This connect ...