PAINTINGS

Nose blowing
Retroverse
Society is closed,
come back Monday
Business is Business

PHOTOS
Tallinn 2006

MODELLING
Searching for Simple Methods
of Creating Flexible Systems

CITY PLANNING
General Planning
Paldiski, Estonia
Spatial Planning Vision
Luthers Quarter, Tallinn

ARCHITECTURE
Arvo Prts Concert Hall
Rakvere, Estonia
Appartment Building
Paldiski, Estonia
Estonian Academy of Arts Building
Tallinn
Office Building
Tartu, Estonia
Private Dwelling
Nmme, Tallinn

VISUALIZATION
Visual of a One-Family Home
Haabneeme, Estonia

300 x 120 cm

Finnsh board, canvas, cardboard, oil paint, water emulsion paint, pastel, chalk

2006

Nose blowing

123 x 184 cm
plywood from a street, charcoal, plaster
2007

Retroverse

152 x 200 cm
door from a street, charcoal, ice cream, plaster
2007

Society is closed,
come back Monday

178 x 163 cm
plywood from a street, charcoal, plaster, magazines
2007

Business is Business

Tallinn 2006

Tallinn, 2006

Tallinn, 2006

Searching for Simple Methods

of Creating Flexible Systems

Searching for Simple Methods

of Creating Flexible Systems

Spacial and graphical diagram about sawing as a process

Searching for Simple Methods

of Creating Flexible Systems

David Reed , #570

2005-2007

typologies

dominants

Entance exams in Dieangewandte 2007: create an architectural structure

according to a painting of David Reed
impression: I want my paintings to be architecture!
layers: color&shapes - no link
zoning: sides - straight, centre - curved, dynamical
order: not ideal, dictated by the painting knife, randomness, nonsense
continuity: invisible
emptiness: about 10% of surface
shapes: dictated by arbitrariness and a tool

Searching for Simple Methods

of Creating Flexible Systems

Paldiski is a former military

town located in 50 km from
the capital of Estonia. Established by Peter the Great
in 18. century, Paldiski used
to be one of the most important harbours in Russia, The
town used to be a military
base of Soviet Union for
about 50 years.
The town has 3 main historical layers: a garden-town
from Republic of Estonia
(1920-39), stalinist regular
planning and a pannel-housedistrict, that has no link
to the genius loci of the
town.
A city that once had 16000
inhabitants, has now, after
Russian army has left the
country, only 4200, but it
is decided to create 2000
new workplaces in ports. Of
course there is a lot of
abandoned environment and
the centrally planned town
is very sparse, attractive
for industry to swamp the
whole town in a location with
spectacular nature (seaside
with a cliff is the main attractor of Paldiski).

General Planning
Paldiski, Estonia

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A CREATIVE ANALYZE OF PALDISKI

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garages - possible local centre (but this century housing recommended)

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green network

dajas - soviet time garden lands outside town

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town council

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a loose object - kettle house - to be replaced
by an art gallery, the gate of Paldiski

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organic part of Paldiski - a courtyard
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typical soviet-time-innovation (places the area
mentally out of town, has no spatial link to the town) - Ridicule? - Leave as is.
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weak planning
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the stalinist main axis of Paldiski - as lost its
function, we put there greenhouses
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the remains from a sea castle of Peter The Great
(17. century)
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soviet-time town-centre
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polluted area with pre-II-WW private dwellings
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a mixed area: pre-II-WW private dwellings, soviettime panel blocks
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housing?
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industry, emptiness and random remaining housing

a full quarter from soviet times
remarkable area - spetial attention - be creative!
mystical, special area of cementerys - (container
car parking?)
existing piece of open seashore next to the railways

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misleaded industrial buildings - to be replaced by
housing on their footprint
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north port

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south port

General Planning
Paldiski, Estonia

As lines of force generating the

urban form three different patterns
are considered:
grid 1 - a stalinist regular planning street network grid, purified
and continued in new street pattern
grid 2 - uniting the facades, following the street pattern grid; used
for generating new housing pattern

grid 3 - extensions of the axis of

all house facades in Paldiski (as
visible, the orthogonality is very
strict, almost without a precedent), used for designing the cladding and grass plot pattern of the
central square

General Planning
Paldiski, Estonia

The approach of the project is to minimize the scale of ecological

units in order to create variegated environment and not let it tear
into industrial area, slum, and wasteland.
The ecological scheme of planning creates an experimental short-gradient distinction between industrial (nuclear richest) and natural
(nuclear poorest) areas. The responsible role of a gradient is put
upon living houses. The argument is to bring the whole diversity of
an environment to an appartment, letting it open both to industrial
and park area side. For example the access to the building by car is
possible only from industrial area.
Zoning scheme of the town: park areas are buffered from industrial
areas by long residential houses
yen to the sea

Potential orientation of the town to the seaside that is now closed.

General Planning
Paldiski, Estonia

The main axis of movement are two pedestrian promenades crossing

in the central town: a pedestrian axis through the most public
part of the city, and seaside promenade. A low-intensity car road
and pedestrian movement axis are shown with their influential
zones.
One of the centroids of the planning is a spectacular pedestrian
seaside promenade, starting from one side of the town, near train
station, being partially lifted from ground, imitating a cliff,
crossing a port and the soil-castle of Peter the Great and ending
as a floating quai in the sea.

General Planning
Paldiski, Estonia

According to my general planning of the town, I designed

an appartment building at the main square of Paldiski,
between a town council, central park, greenhouses, industrial area and a quarter of private dwellings.
The most important designer of this house is sunlight. How
it is achieved, derives from existing typology. Filling
a hole in a row of stalinist barracs of revisualized main
axis of Paldiski, the space is already bordered. By mutation of the barrack form and repeating a spacial module,
a 276 metres long house is created with a width of about
10 metres.
The surrounding space carries a function of uniting the
environment of diversity together, offering a best quality of public living space with parks, streets and social
functions at the main square side.

Appartment House
Paldiski, Estonia

A generation method of the house applies

for offering perceptions of formal associacion of a dispositioned house material - associations, that hold the district together.

Appartment House
Paldiski, Estonia

Appartments, varying from 40

to 200 square metres in area
and 1 to 2 floors in height,
are paired by a possibility
of uniting them. The inner structure (form of stair
halls, walls between appartments) also follows the form
of facade, seeking a less lit
place in the building body.

Appartment House
Paldiski, Estonia

ONE OF THE SYMMETRICAL HALFS OF THE BASEMENT PLAN

WITH PARKING PLACES, STORE-ROOMS AND ACCESS BY
CARS.

ONE OF THE SYMMETRICAL HALFS OF THE

2. FLOOR PLAN

An appartment as a living unit tries to have as much

freedom as left from different demands. The rooms are
divided into two main categories: multifunctional
central space and peripherical special space. Only a
conventional occupier calls them a kitchen/living room
and sleeping rooms. Actually the appartment is articulated by three cathegories of space by the amount of
light: rooms with windows (yellow in plan), rooms lit
through the other rooms (green), and artificially lit
rooms (purple). There is a certain variety of the form
and lightedness of rooms, but a freedom to use them.

Appartment House
Paldiski, Estonia

VARIATIONS OF APPARTMENT PLANS

Appartment House
Paldiski, Estonia

VARIATIONS OF APPARTMENT PLANS:

UNITED APPARTMENT
BELOW FLOOR

UPPER FLOOR

Appartment House
Paldiski, Estonia

VARIATIONS OF APPARTMENT PLANS:

SEPARATED APPARTMENTS
BELOW FLOOR

UPPER FLOOR

Appartment House
Paldiski, Estonia

S-E SECTIONS

N-E facade

S-W elevation

Appartment House
Paldiski, Estonia

Competition entry for Luthers quarter, Tallinn

With Hanno Grossschmidt, Tomomi Hayashi, Yoko Azukawa
april 2009

Spatial Planning Vision

Luthers Quarter, Tallinn

Competition entry for Luthers quarter, Tallinn

With Hanno Grossschmidt, Tomomi Hayashi, Yoko Azukawa
april 2009

Spatial Planning Vision

Luthers Quarter, Tallinn

Competition entry for Arvo Prdi concert hall in Rakvere St

Pauls church
With Frederik Deketelaere, Ricardo Seguro Pereira, Sebastien
Roux
august 2009

Arvo Prt Concert Hall

Rakvere, Estonia

Competition entry for Arvo Prdi concert hall in Rakvere St

Pauls church
With Frederik Deketelaere, Ricardo Seguro Pereira, Sebastien
Roux
august 2009

Arvo Prt Concert Hall

Rakvere, Estonia

Competition entry for Arvo Prdi concert hall in Rakvere St

Pauls church
With Frederik Deketelaere, Ricardo Seguro Pereira, Sebastien
Roux
august 2009

Arvo Prt Concert Hall

Rakvere, Estonia

Competition entry for Arvo Prdi concert hall in Rakvere St

Pauls church
With Frederik Deketelaere, Ricardo Seguro Pereira, Sebastien
Roux
august 2009

Arvo Prt Concert Hall

Rakvere, Estonia

Competition entry for Arvo Prdi concert hall in Rakvere St

Pauls church
With Frederik Deketelaere, Ricardo Seguro Pereira, Sebastien
Roux
august 2009

Arvo Prt Concert Hall

Rakvere, Estonia

Competition entry for Arvo Prdi concert hall in Rakvere St

Pauls church
With Frederik Deketelaere, Ricardo Seguro Pereira, Sebastien
Roux
august 2009

Arvo Prt Concert Hall

Rakvere, Estonia

The task of the competition was to plan an Estonian Art Academy building (30000 m2) on a tiny
(about 4000 m2) plot in the very centre of the
capital city Tallinn. There are about 1200 students screaming for an inspiring space studying
there, from the whole range of artistic fields.
EAA is one of the most important cultural temples in Estonia and has a monopolic status in
teaching many professions in the country.

Estonian Academy of Arts Building

Tallinn

What to mean by a university-skyscraper?

The interests of a university definitely requires a
private space where to work in best conditions and
peace, as well as public area of good and wide relations with the diversity of society and culture. So
EAA has to not be monofunctional and closed, although
thematical. It has to have good infrastructure that
both unites the university to be a strong whole in
itself and continue the public space of the city.
Artists are oriented in presenting what they create
and the public consumes their art. Students and public, concrete and general, public and private belong
into one symbiosis.
In these means I propose a private-public skyscraper.
The infrastructure of the tower is bihelix: 2 staircases in the perimeter- public and private, 2 elevator schafts: private opening into the building and
public from the public square and pedestrian walkway.
The skyscraper has to use its best possibilities:
good access between floors, because vertical movement
is quicker, thus more effective than horisontal.
Public skyscraper: an all peoples way to the sky,
surronded by public exhibitions, performances, amateur workshops; something like a public university
Private skyscraper: art academy inner way to the sky,
that unites the professional art academy.

Estonian Academy of Arts Building

Tallinn

Competition entry for a bureau building

likooli st 2, Tartu
With Hanno Grossschmidt, Tomomi Hayashi
january 2008

Office Building
Tartu, Estonia

The site is situated at the premier location in Tartu, where all perimeters can
enjoy views. The proposal is to bring in
light and nature in a discrete manner, by
cutting the building volume and creating
pockets for personalized parks close to
people at work. This cutting-in optimizes usable depth of building as well as
produces several loosely separated zones
within the same floor. Glass curtain
wall surrounding these cut-ins contrasts
to the horizontal ribbon windows in the
main facade, which bounds exterior views
as picture frames rather than show at full
extent. Main facade refers to the existing
stone retaining wall. The forest behind is
quite a hidden place at the moment. The
proposal is to provide a secondary entrance
also to that side and a balcony for making
the forest more accessible and friendlier.
The ground floor is for up-scale retail
with mezzanine floor, which receives soft
light through the dry area on the forest
side. Upper floors for offices have various floor area thanks to 3-dimensionally
articulated cut-ins.

Office Building
Tartu, Estonia

Its a shop-and-bureau-building, that is

located in a very visible place at one of
the main squares in Estonian university-town
Tartu. It has three sides of viewing with
a different character: park-, street- and
square-side. So there are also 4 entrances.
Every entrance is marked by a diffusion-incision in front of it. The incisions work
like outer atriums that bring light to sufficient part of the building.
The facade-solution works in a contrastprinciple. The brick pattern of the outside
shell is derived from a granite-wall of a
lifted park behind the building and continues it. Full-glass-curtain-wall-incisions
transfer most of the demanded daylight into
the building and reflect great part of it.

Office Building
Tartu, Estonia

Maja sobitagu oma meeldiv sisu

mbrusse passivasse vormi.
Muljenautlejate arhitektiisu
jooksku Nmme kalda peale tormi.
Situatsiooniuuring selgitagu pisut:
katus Nmmel multikaldeta ei skoori.
Vahutagu kaldkatusterisu
kokku teispool suusahppetorni.

Private Dwelling
Nmme, Tallinn

Technical details
shell: walz-copper-sheets.
construction:
steel base
concrete middle floor
timber shell structure
a hanging glass balcony

Private Dwelling
Nmme, Tallinn

a house for a family with common ground floor

and separated living sections in the second
floor for children (2) and parents

Private Dwelling
Nmme, Tallinn

netto area - 221,3 square metres

living area - 142,7 square metres
cubature - 665 cubic metres

Private Dwelling
Nmme, Tallinn

author: Hanno Grossschmidt

august 2009

Visual of a One-Family Home

Haabneeme, Estonia

author: Hanno Grossschmidt

august 2009

Visual of a One-Family Home

Haabneeme, Estonia