Summerschool Finnland

FHP 2022 - Rethinking Urban Change


IN HÄMEENLINNA
group work with Hasan Hirji (Canada) & Roosmarii Kukk (Estonia)


The proposal consists of a series of fields, which, instead of meaning agricultural fields, is a system of thinking about the city beyond its buildings. It focuses on the spaces in-between the buildings. 

There are three different fields: 1. typological field: what already exists (parks, roads, and buildings); 2. timefield: how are they used (constant or seasonal); 3. material field, of what they are made from. These three factors are tools to design a public space and, based on its success, adapting it. To set up an example of how to use the fields on the site, the group proposes transforming the hospital building into an education hub. It offers students a standardized education with a focus on skilled crafts, trades, maintenance, and involvement with urban activities.  The education hub also contains a light therapy sauna called Sun house that brings people together in the dark winter, creating an activity specific to a season. The group also proposes to transform the bridge from the city centre to Keinusaari into a shared space, where all the transport modes share the space equally without sidewalks or specific lanes. This well-known method reduces the speed as well as allows people to use the street space for events.


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