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Street, Sea, Fish
A fish market for Tallinn, making the working coast part of the city
Tallinn is a coastal city that has long lacked a meaningful connection to the sea. Although public access to the waterfront is improving, the sea is still often experienced as a distant backdrop rather than an active part of the city, with few architectural or urban features addressing its presence. This thesis investigates how architectural design can reconnect Tallinn’s urban life to the sea.
The project addresses this question by designing a coastal fish market between Kalasadam and Linnahall. The proposal expands a function already present on the site but currently limited by architectural and spatial shortcomings. Through programme, composition, spatial sequence, and coastal identity, the project explores how architecture can make the working coast visible, accessible, and public.
The result is a split-level fish market where production and storage are organised at sea level, while the public market sits above. The building develops into a tripartite market hall: a flexible civic structure defined by light, repeated structural frames. Its public square extends this logic outward, serving both as civic space and as a working harbour floor. The approach from the Old Town supports the project by strengthening orientation towards the market, while the main architectural focus remains the building itself.
Beyond Tallinn, the project suggests that low-intensity coastal cities can be activated by strengthening existing social hubs and urban axes, rather than relying on isolated landmarks. In this way, architecture can help establish the sea as a visible and living part of everyday urban life. ...
The project addresses this question by designing a coastal fish market between Kalasadam and Linnahall. The proposal expands a function already present on the site but currently limited by architectural and spatial shortcomings. Through programme, composition, spatial sequence, and coastal identity, the project explores how architecture can make the working coast visible, accessible, and public.
The result is a split-level fish market where production and storage are organised at sea level, while the public market sits above. The building develops into a tripartite market hall: a flexible civic structure defined by light, repeated structural frames. Its public square extends this logic outward, serving both as civic space and as a working harbour floor. The approach from the Old Town supports the project by strengthening orientation towards the market, while the main architectural focus remains the building itself.
Beyond Tallinn, the project suggests that low-intensity coastal cities can be activated by strengthening existing social hubs and urban axes, rather than relying on isolated landmarks. In this way, architecture can help establish the sea as a visible and living part of everyday urban life. ...
Tallinn is a coastal city that has long lacked a meaningful connection to the sea. Although public access to the waterfront is improving, the sea is still often experienced as a distant backdrop rather than an active part of the city, with few architectural or urban features addressing its presence. This thesis investigates how architectural design can reconnect Tallinn’s urban life to the sea.
The project addresses this question by designing a coastal fish market between Kalasadam and Linnahall. The proposal expands a function already present on the site but currently limited by architectural and spatial shortcomings. Through programme, composition, spatial sequence, and coastal identity, the project explores how architecture can make the working coast visible, accessible, and public.
The result is a split-level fish market where production and storage are organised at sea level, while the public market sits above. The building develops into a tripartite market hall: a flexible civic structure defined by light, repeated structural frames. Its public square extends this logic outward, serving both as civic space and as a working harbour floor. The approach from the Old Town supports the project by strengthening orientation towards the market, while the main architectural focus remains the building itself.
Beyond Tallinn, the project suggests that low-intensity coastal cities can be activated by strengthening existing social hubs and urban axes, rather than relying on isolated landmarks. In this way, architecture can help establish the sea as a visible and living part of everyday urban life.
The project addresses this question by designing a coastal fish market between Kalasadam and Linnahall. The proposal expands a function already present on the site but currently limited by architectural and spatial shortcomings. Through programme, composition, spatial sequence, and coastal identity, the project explores how architecture can make the working coast visible, accessible, and public.
The result is a split-level fish market where production and storage are organised at sea level, while the public market sits above. The building develops into a tripartite market hall: a flexible civic structure defined by light, repeated structural frames. Its public square extends this logic outward, serving both as civic space and as a working harbour floor. The approach from the Old Town supports the project by strengthening orientation towards the market, while the main architectural focus remains the building itself.
Beyond Tallinn, the project suggests that low-intensity coastal cities can be activated by strengthening existing social hubs and urban axes, rather than relying on isolated landmarks. In this way, architecture can help establish the sea as a visible and living part of everyday urban life.
Leftover Hybrid Dwellings
Investigating the socio-cultural drivers behind hybrid dwellings where the residential function is subordinated, and their role in urban and architectural evolution
Hybridity in residential architecture is increasingly regarded as a progressive urban strategy. Yet despite their apparent novelty, hybrid dwellings are deeply rooted in pre-individual architectural forms and reflect long-surpassed concepts. After comparing hybrids to their antithesis – building typologies – this essay will examine the darker side of hybridity: dwellings that offer compromised living conditions within programmatically confused building forms, presented in Atelier Bow Wow’s 2001 catalogue, Made in Tokyo. Besides uncovering their societal, cultural and historical underpinnings, the primary questions of interest will be how leftover hybrid dwellings affect domestic and urban spatial arrangements and how they hinder architectural evolution.
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Hybridity in residential architecture is increasingly regarded as a progressive urban strategy. Yet despite their apparent novelty, hybrid dwellings are deeply rooted in pre-individual architectural forms and reflect long-surpassed concepts. After comparing hybrids to their antithesis – building typologies – this essay will examine the darker side of hybridity: dwellings that offer compromised living conditions within programmatically confused building forms, presented in Atelier Bow Wow’s 2001 catalogue, Made in Tokyo. Besides uncovering their societal, cultural and historical underpinnings, the primary questions of interest will be how leftover hybrid dwellings affect domestic and urban spatial arrangements and how they hinder architectural evolution.