Tallinn Architecture Biennale TAB 2024 - Installation Programme Competition , Tallinn/ Estland

Press release | MINT LIST | 28.08.24

TAB 2024 WINNERS OF THE INSTALLATION PROGRAMME COMPETITION “NO TIME TO WASTE”

The 7th Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB 2024) (https://tab.ee) announces the winner of the Installation Programme Competition “For-This-Situation”. The two-stage competition challenged emerging architects to develop creative designs for a temporary outdoor installation at Tallinn's busiest local transportation hub – the Balti Jaam. The Pavilion will be located on the edge of the largely intact Tallinn Bastion Belt encircling Tallinn’s UNESCO-protected medieval Old Town.

Anhelina L. Starkova, architect and head curator of TAB 2024, led the jury panel for the Installation Programme Competition, alongside Indrek Peil (EE) – architect at Kavakava architects; Austris Mailītis (LV), architect and educator; Ann Kristiin Entson (EE) – architect & urban planner Tallinn Strategic Management Office; Simo Ilomets (EE) – engineer, lecturer TalTech. The jury has reached a decision, choosing from among more than 80 submissions from around the world. It moves forward with the project that it deems to fuse perfectly with the curatorial theme “For-This-Situation”.

The winning project, “No Time to Waste” by Elisabeth Terrisse de Botton (ES) and Matthieu Brasebin (FR), proposes an engagement with the proximate square at Tallinn Jam Station and offering alternative breakout spaces for city residents.

“No Time to Waste” revolves around the act of killing time and providing shelter by creating a structure that uses repurposed, reused resources but also makes the time worth spending while waiting. The pavilion features a series of walls that define a sequence of covered and accessible rooms that are open for future developments.

Inspired by the gabion wall constructive system, lightweight steel cages filled with leftover stones or rubble will serve as external foundations for the pavilion. Moreover, variations in the density of the filling allow a degree of transparency in certain points of the wall. The structure of the roof constitutes a grid system composed of primary beams and secondary battens.

Workshops focused on building and activating the pavilion will involve architecture and design students from the Estonian Academy of Arts.

From August to October 2024, a 1:1 fragment of “No Time to Waste” will be built at Balti Jaam, Tallinn's busiest local transportation hub, and will inaugurate on October 11th, 2024, during Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2024’s opening week, remaining thereafter as a permanent installation.

All successful entries will be presented as a separate Installation Programme Exhibition at the Museum of Estonian Architecture in Tallinn.

CREDITS
Design:
Brasebin Terrisse
Project Team:
Brasebin Terrisse, Estonian Centre for Architecture
Time Frame:
August – October 2024 — construction
October 11th, 2024 — opening

“Resources for a Future”

TALLINN ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE TAB 2024
Opening Week:
9 – 16 October 2024
Dates:
9 October – 1 December 2024
Curators:
Anhelina L. Starkova (head curator)
Daniel A. Walser, Jaan Kuusemets
Production:
Estonian Centre for Architecture
Main Partners:
Thermory, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Ministry of Culture, Estonian Association of Architects,
Museum of Estonian Architecture, LAUFEN, Ruukki