The Unfinished City: Building Block, Lasnamäe, Tallinn, Estonia – Projects
Project Details
Type
- Community & Public
Masterplan Architect
- Morris+Company, Mae, Haptic, Gort Scott, Coffey Architects, Turner.Works
Client
- Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2022
Location
- Lasnamäe, Tallinn, Estonia
Part of Tallinn’s 2022 Architecture Biennale, The Circular Block competition invited participants to consider Lasnamäe, Tallinn’s most populous suburb, as the site of a multi-layered design and research project questioning established linear models of production and consumption, and proposing strategies that could shift the district towards integrated and socially responsive circular systems.
Designed by Londonon in collaboration with Neighbourhood, Elliott Wood and Skelly & Couch, ‘The Unfinished City’ considers all invited scales of enquiry and represents a comprehensive vision for a circular district, driven by empowered residents through adaptable structures of highly participatory governance and decision-making. We imagine a digitally-enabled ‘People’s Parliament’, with strong social connections fostered in the physical pursuit of growing, sharing and reuse. The activity is rooted in a productive hydraulic landscape and shared spaces constructed from repurposed materials and redundant building components.
Engagement with decision making on all scales, opportunities for training and career-making in critical high-skilled sectors, and the shared experience of quickly manifested results, galvanise the community around common circular principles. The gradual expansion of activity and development of a district centre composed of civic structures, largely constructed from material gathered from refurbishment works, which evolve in scale as the momentum of regeneration increases, and which support the future of the district.
Ultimately, the district, forever ‘unfinished’, sustains its own continual renewal and inspires and offers support to a wider movement of kindred projects.
The Unfinished City was exhibited at the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale and awarded an honourable mention by the competition judges.
Londonon is a research collaboration led by 6 London-based architecture studios: Turner.Works, Coffey Architects, Morris+Company, Gort Scott, Haptic, Mae
