Hide and Peek at the Station

Rethinking informativity to serve life-value in Helsinki Central Station

Master thesis (2021)

Authors

T.I. Peippo Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

A. Sioli Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
Stavros Kousoulas Theory, Territories & Transitions - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
F.J. Speksnijder Teachers of Practice / AE+T - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
H. Sohn Theory, Territories & Transitions - Architecture and the Built Environment (graduation committee member)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
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Published Date

12-04-2021

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

As labor increasingly takes place solely in the confines of a laptop screen, the office as a building type seems almost redundant. At the same time the profitability of data collected of consumption puts conventional understandings of value production under question. How does information become valuable, and how should we think of value to begin with? The project employs an understanding of value as a qualitative, subjective excess effect of life that can only be quantified as profit through the production of metrics that make it compatible with the field of economy. Helsinki Central Station provides a case study of an intensely public site where original functions have been gradually replaced by opportunities for consumption that economize its life-value. The goal of the project is to counter these processes of capture and re-intensify the experience of moving through the terminal building. Focusing on the habit of voyeurism, the project speculates new constraints to put travellers into unexpectedly close relations to intensify the station’s singular quality as a composite of strangers in a certain rhythmic movement.