Mi experiencia educativa en Finlandia

On Wednesday 13th April, we have been to Porvoo with Netta Böök, our teacher of Finnish Wooden Architecture.  We met in Gekko metro station (the huge yellow stuff in kamppi) and we took a direct bus from there to Porvoo. One hour was enough to arrive and start to  apply the knowledge we have acquired   in   this   course. It was 7€ each way, student price, paid by the University. Porvoo is located at 50 minutes East from Helsinki, buses leave kamppi station around each half an hour and it used to be the most important city of Finland before the foundation of Helsinki in the year 1550. This is my second time in Porvoo so I kind of know the city. I recommend people to visit it. Porvo is the oldest medieval city in Finland, it suffered its most destructive fire in 1760 and after that the city had to be rebuild. Even though, they followed the plots exactly the way they used to be before the fire and so the result is an authentic medieval grid town with woode...

 2/10/2010 Día de lluvia, desde mi ventana. 3/10/2010 Noches en el barrio de Servin Maijan 11/10/2010 Departamento de Arquitectura. (Las hojas rojas duraron menos de 1 semana)  11/10/2010  Edificio principal del campus. Hemos tenido un otoño muy soleado. 11/10/2010 10:42 de la mañana. Aalto + farola + bici + Nuk 11/10/2010 De camino a comer 11/10/2010 Vistas desde la puerta del departamento de Arquitectura 15/10/2010 Wood Construction. Charla de incio y luego clase teórica. 15/10/2010 Peter Zumthor en el 75 Aniversario de Artek 22/10/2010 Primeros copos de nieve... 2/11/2010 Vista en directo desde mi balcón. 

Last Tuesday and Wednesday we've been to Imatra , a city located in the South-East of Finland, quite close to Russian's border. Fortum , the most important  Hydroelectric   company in Finland and Sweden, has given us the opportunity to develop a project in an area that currently belongs to the company and is going to be sell with an achitectural idea related with housing for workers, tourism, culture and nature values...as we want.  The company has said that if there is any project which ideas are considered good enough to be sell, they will subsidize the ideas and make sure the pupil can develop his/hers project with a construction company. Even if we don't win, its a good way to get introduced in the real world of architecture , and it's our opportunity to built a better place to stay. Here I leave some pictures of the site and the trip we've done. Hope you enjoy it. Aerial picture of the site. Beginning of the analysis: Natural c...