Embedded Files
UNPRETENTIOUS SKY, TALLINN
UNPRETENTIOUS SKY, TALLINN
TAB 2026 Biennale set up a challenging brief around cost and quality. To translate initial concepts that we discussed to spatial form, we decided to: build with local timber, common dimensional lumber sizes.
TAB 2026 Biennale set up a challenging brief around cost and quality. To translate initial concepts that we discussed to spatial form, we decided to: build with local timber, common dimensional lumber sizes.
Also, to build —welcome— with ‘air’, an element that has endless possibilities.
Also, to build —welcome— with ‘air’, an element that has endless possibilities.
We wanted to create a space where people can stay. Stay for an hour, for a whole sunset, and come back with friends. This 2-room proposal enables a minimalist match between approach, one room, and its sequence to the second, as architectures enriches inhabitant’s experience.
We wanted to create a space where people can stay. Stay for an hour, for a whole sunset, and come back with friends. This 2-room proposal enables a minimalist match between approach, one room, and its sequence to the second, as architectures enriches inhabitant’s experience.
A pause. A gathering point. A circular bearing —loads, experiences— wall:
A pause. A gathering point. A circular bearing —loads, experiences— wall:
From distance, a warm texture is partially revealed, hidden by a yakisugi vertical cladding envelope.
From distance, a warm texture is partially revealed, hidden by a yakisugi vertical cladding envelope.
The approach is followed by a sensitive access, timber’s texture and smell, leading to a dark corridor where a Curved Nailed CLT (CNCLT) organizes the space, structure, and adds that warm tonality. It also hides a further intimate central space, revealed after few steps.
The approach is followed by a sensitive access, timber’s texture and smell, leading to a dark corridor where a Curved Nailed CLT (CNCLT) organizes the space, structure, and adds that warm tonality. It also hides a further intimate central space, revealed after few steps.
There, the sky mark its presence, now framed and reverberated by a white-wash one hand paint on timber, resin-finished.
There, the sky mark its presence, now framed and reverberated by a white-wash one hand paint on timber, resin-finished.
Shapes dialogue with the way light is filtered: from the open sky of the grassy hill to the darkness and again to a controlled light, abstracting limitless phenomena throughout seasons.
Shapes dialogue with the way light is filtered: from the open sky of the grassy hill to the darkness and again to a controlled light, abstracting limitless phenomena throughout seasons.
More about Unpretentious Sky ∵
More about Unpretentious Sky ∵
The exterior cladding —here made off yakisugi dimensional lumber— can be even the existent walls of a rectangle roomed school or hospital.
The exterior cladding —here made off yakisugi dimensional lumber— can be even the existent walls of a rectangle roomed school or hospital.
We imagine that those programs would welcome a warm curved wall that creates a meditation space, a pause within its classrooms, corridors, and healing rooms.
We imagine that those programs would welcome a warm curved wall that creates a meditation space, a pause within its classrooms, corridors, and healing rooms.
Wherever there is an open space where a portion of sky can be abstracted from, or even in rectangle-partitioned rooms with a roof, a ‘CNCLT’ wall can be installed.
Wherever there is an open space where a portion of sky can be abstracted from, or even in rectangle-partitioned rooms with a roof, a ‘CNCLT’ wall can be installed.
Can these types of spaces that have a center where “the sky is poured on the room”, an inexpensive element without limits, be a counterpoint for most of our buildings that generally let roofs neglected? Voids amid water tanks, and city voids: can they become something else?
Can these types of spaces that have a center where “the sky is poured on the room”, an inexpensive element without limits, be a counterpoint for most of our buildings that generally let roofs neglected? Voids amid water tanks, and city voids: can they become something else?
Facts
Facts
Year: 2026
Site area: 1300 m2
Built Area: 21 m2
Estimated cost: € 14.000,00
Uses: Cultural
Status: Competition entry
Credits:
coauthors: Fernanda Pecchio Timoteo
and Agu Sienra Chaves
aerial base ph. by Jaanus Jagomagi
stars 3rd plane ph. by Slava Abramovitch
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
Related Content
Related Content
Groundscape for landscape, 3rd prize award.
Groundscape for landscape, 3rd prize award.
Murmansk, 2020
Mexico Pavilion, 3rd prize award.
Mexico Pavilion, 3rd prize award.
Busan, 2022
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse