‘We really believed, in quasi-religious sense, in the perfectibility of human nature, in the role of architecture as a weapon of social reform…The coming utopia, where everyone would live in cheap prefabricated flat-roofed multiple dwellings – heaven on earth’[1]
My work is based on personal experience of
living in few of the worst listed suburban estate developments of Helsinki,
Finland. The project is a statement on the necessity of aesthetically pleasing
and socially functioning living environment.
[1] Architect Philip Johnson in Coleman Alice, Utopia on Trial;
Vision and Reality in Planned Housing, p. 3