E17 portraits - Island tools

Helsinki (FI) - Special Mention

Island tools

Associates: Aron De Cesero (IT) – architect, Annachiara Sartor (IT) – landscape architect, Marta Magnaguagno (IT) – architectural and urban theorist

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"Instead of immediately starting with a fixed project, we decided to dive deep into the topic of the unbalanced coexistence between humans and natural environment with its inhabitants. We asked ourselves: what if we, as humans, start to think that buildings are not just for us but also for other existing beings?"

Human and natural implementation strategy on one of the islands (Pikku Niinisaari)
Axonometric view of one of the docks’ project system
View of the project arriving from water