The Alusta Pavilion in Helsinki, Finland offers a space for multispecies encounters and a platform for environmental discourse. Pollinator friendly meadow, decaying wood, biochar, and clay structures designed in collaboration with ecology researchers and built through a participatory educational process support the shared wellbeing of people, non-human animals, plants, and soil microbes.
Participants
SUOMI/KOIVISTO ARCHITECTS
HELSINKI, FINLAND
Maiju Suomi, Kotka, Finland, 1984. Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.
Elina Koivisto, Helsinki, Finland, 1985. Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.
Team
Franziska Dalheimer, Mari Hermaja, Maiju Paasiviita, Johanna Huttunen, Heikki Setälä, Marja Roslund, Aki Sinkkonen, Timo Kallio, Oliver Müller, Jan Hast, Pekka Räsänen, Aarni Tujula, Axel Lyytikkä, Patrik Söderlund
Thanks
Aalto University, Architecture & Design Museum Helsinki
Supporters
Kordelin Foundation; The Arts Promotion Centre of Finland; The Finnish Cultural Foundation; Greta and William Lehtinen Foundation
