Recommending party
The project has been submitted by:
Emil Urbel Ou
LOCATION
Country: Estonia
City: Tallinn
Address:
AUTHOR
Designer or design team architects:
Emil Urbel Ou
DETAILS
Lot surface area: 87048 m2
Total area of the project: – m2
Of which residential: 10800 m2 Public/communal areas: –m2 Facilities for the public: – m2 Business/trade: – m2 Offices: – m2
Number of residential units: 84 Typology of users: families
Construction costs (euro/square metre): 550 €/m2
Work started on date: 2001 Work completion date: 2003
OWNERSHIP
Promoter: KMG Ehitus Owner: Land city of Tallinn
Description of the project:
Initiated by Tallinn City Government, there was a competition in 2001 for cheap private housing onto the city-owned 8,7 Ha land plot.
Aaviku development is built as so called public-private partnership – the City Government permitted the 50-year land lease, houses are built and sold at the fixed prices by the private undertaker. Both were interested to build as much and as cheap as possible.
We planned only the main structure of area and four general types of houses (whole area 83-140 sqm.). Certain houses were not connected to certain plot. There are plots of two sizes – 460 and 560 sqm.
New inahbitants could choose the house type and the colour of the house.
The only rule was – two houses of same colour could not be situated side by side.
So the people participated in creating this colourful complex.
Houses are situated on the northen border of the each plot, so all the windows are opening to the south and area of courtyard is as large and as private as possible.
Houses were built in prefabricated wooden panels and finished on the plot.
