The pavilion stands on the foundation of an old market-hall. It is designed as a lightweight timber construction. The exterior walls between the structural columns are made of curtain wall elements making the pavilion transparent and light. The load-bearing structure is made of laminated timber: cross-shaped and half-cross-shaped columns. The ground floor is roofed by glued timber corbel vaults.  The pavilion is an integral part of the Tammsaare park. The connecting feature is the stepped shape of the corbel vault also reflected in the design of the light poles, information stands and playground equipment. The timber structure is finished with white weatherproof polymeric paint and treated with fireproofing. 
The timber vaults grow into domes on the roof and a spatial vault ceiling in the interior and under the canopy. The prefabricated roof elements turn the top of the pavilion into a kind of a landscape that looks interesting also from above, for example, from the upper floors of Opera-house.

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Legendary W. Shakespeare’s play „A Midsummer Night’s Dream“ got a lighter and modernized look and feel over summer months of 2016 at Tallinn City Theatre. According to director Jaanus Rohumaa, all the events of this play are taking place around the year 2016 and not in the distance abstract past. That approach had to be emphasized by the set design, costumes and music. The production was staged in a BlackBox where physical objects had to stay at the same place, although they could change their meaning and function during the show. Set designers’ take on these topics, and constrains was to strip down all the decorations and narrative elements, which left us with pure functional and fundamental shapes. Since physical objects didn’t carry meaning by themselves, it was left to the actors to apply it on them. For example, the same rope structure had to play forest or a modern chandelier at the villa in the later stage of the play; a pile of boxes played hills and auditorium seating etc. Along with the actors who applied meaning on their physical surroundings, the audience could also wander around with their mind’s eye and play out their interpretation on these objects.

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Designed and built in 2 weeks for Photographic Art Fair in Tallinn 2011. The installation was located in two places – the Independence Square and KUMU courtyard. Camera’s walls are built from spruce and treated with pine tar.

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The outdoor theatre stage is built especially for a run of 12 performances of one play during the summer.  Its main architectural goal is to form a closed, comfortable and intimate space that creates an immediate connection with the audience and the actors. The architecture frames the landscape in a way that the park, trees and the pond become an integral part of the stage-set. The light wooden construction provides space and enables changing stage lighting dynamically. &#8220;We have tried to avoid a concrete narrative in this solution. The stage is an abstraction, which sets the mood.  We have approached the era and theme of the theatre project (beginning of the 20th century, futurism, young poets) from a different angle to visualize a complicated moment in European history.&#8221; The material we chose for the stage is 50&#215;50 mm timber, which is an excellent natural material and easy to dismantle, so it gives the theatre a possibility to re-use it for any new constructions within upcoming plays. The audience podium has 420 seats, and the stage area is 280 m². &#8220;After 12 performances the stage will be dismantled and the timber and boards used for other things. There is no need to use complicated materials; wood is a nice material that architects can easily understand and work with; it is also weather-proof.&#8221;