Jallukka - Talli Architecture and Design
The Jallukka House for Musicians was initiated by Helsinki’s Live Music Association ELMU to develop affordable rental flats for people in the music business - vocalists, musicians as well as technicians and roadies. The area - still largely under development - is maritime yet urban with a dense urban fabric off the traffic arteries. Te eight-storey building consists of two wings: one with flats for musicians accessed via a gallery and the other is served through a central corridor with sizes of flats varying sizes each with a private balcony. The building has extensive communal spaces and terraces and the basement has rehearsal rooms for playing music. The use of straight-forward materials is justified by aiming for reasonable-cost housing.
Key Themes:
Infill Site
Split-Level Living
Communal Rehearsal Space
Simple Material Choices
Housing for Musicians - 24 hr > architecture
Developed by WIMBY (welcome in my backyard) as part of the International Building Exhibition, the Housing for Musicians concept expresses not only the thought that a musician is an individual with a communal paaion but a form for new collective space within the contemporary city. Especially for musicians, the project sees 38 houses were completed, all with their own music room mostly placed within a collective mountain. The individual music rooms all have their own light pyramid that protrudes through the grass mountain central to the houses. The houses are arranged in various ‘stamps’ which are repeated multiple times. On the edge of the ‘stamps’, individual zinc covered music rooms are added like parasites to a tree.
Key Themes:
Parasitic Music Rooms
Infill Site
The Collective Hill
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