Wohnungsreform Helsinki - Wohnungsbau 2020 / Asuntoreformi Helsinki – Asuminen 2020

The Paradise Island
Architecture is not interesting in itself. Interesting is the performance of the building in its surroundings - what the house gives to its environment, its users and its residents.

Port City - Creating a Place
The house is linked to the port city story and creates reminiscences of the role of Helsinki and Jätkäsaari as gates to the world. Its simple volume and large scale refers to port, container boxes and magazines. The rich brick fabric of the facades has been recycled and imported from the harbor cities of the Baltic Sea region.
As an open and welcoming house on its street level it enriches its environment with its bustling ground floor, a lively center for the neighborhood, and important for the entire city district.

House - Happy tilsammans
Social contacts - as close to the everyday as possible - are important to human health.
The house is designed to strengthen community on different scales and levels. The house is a frame where it is difficult to avoid getting to know a neighbor, but where everyone can choose to what extent and when they want to be involved. The house provides the individual with a home port, as well as a framework for the creation of community and identity.

Home - Circle of life
We are all different and we have a wide range of needs, desires and desires at different stages of life and situations. The paradise island provides a rich mix of economically dimensioned dwellings..
The house is a community where you can live your entire life - as a child, as a student, as a youngster, a single, a yuppie, a dink, a family, or even a senior in a cluster.