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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. 

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.


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.

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.

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.


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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.

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?


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




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