Location: Vesilennuki 10/12, Tallinn, Estonia
Client: State Real Estate Ltd
Competition: I prize, 2019
Architects: Siiri Vallner, Indrek Peil, Kristel Niisuke, Ko Ai
Floor area: 15 250 m2 (I stage)
Site: 22 000 m2
Environment Building
New Environment Building is innovative, CO neutral and wooden!
In our proposal new Environment Building is not one megastructure but scaled down to human level. It is part of new, continuous seaside cityscape - well connected to the existing city and future developments.
In the center of new Environment Building is green courtyard which doubles as exhibition space of Estonian Museum of Natural History.
A - interior exhibition space of Estonian Museum of Natural History.
B - “dock”, innovative wooden office space for Environmental Ministry.
C - “townhouse”, wooden building with active street front.
New Environment Building is well connected inside, but has many entrances to ensure active street life.
Estonian Museum of Natural History exhibition spaces are around courtyard. Half of the museum is extensively green courtyard itself. Courtyard is slightly tilted, so it faces to the south and is protected from seaside.
All three volumes have distinctive atrium spaces with exposed wooden structures. Those extra high spaces lend identity to otherwise simple floor plans and office spaces.
Interior view.
Site plan.
I floor plan.
II floor plan and section.
III floor plan.
View to the museum courtyard.