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Challenging suburbia Europan 7, Tallinn, Estonia, 2003 Award: Honary mention Team: Gareth Morris, Eike Sindlinger, Ulrike Steven " A very conceptual entry rises strong argumentation against the program and the choice of the site proposed by the organizers of the competition. Stating the uniqueness of the landscape on the edge of the Estonian limestone clint in the worldwide context, the entry calls for leaving the alvar landscape intact as a natural preserve and thus reducing considerably the area of available land for further housing development. The consequent rise of land price in the existing housing areas should bring more incentive into developing the existing unfinished housing blocks to the south from the competition area. The competition entry tries to discover and develop the hidden qualities of the prefabricated Lasnamäe as the heroic modern project. Proposing new types of housing based on combination of different new technologies using ecological materials and modern prefabrication, the entry achieves a more sustainable and greener living format that would meat a wide variety of human needs and attract new people to this unique combination of nature and advanced contemporary living style. Honary mention from the jury marks the importance of the attention drawn by the entry to the possibility of alternative development attitudes and the need for humanising the existing situation in modern concrete town Lasnamäe.” Jury report |
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