The workshop was accompanied by students from our Capstone Project and organised together with Dan Phillips from RCA, Smart Viz, and researchers from Visualising our Future project. We worked on the urban renewal of Ethelburga Estate – a post-was suburban housing area – which is located next to RCA’s…

This was the first trip and workshop by a group of students and teachers from Finland to China after the Covid Pandemic and the enthusiasm and active participation proved the importance of actual live encounters in workshopping. Taizhou, with a history and culture spanning thousands of years, is actively…

The assignment was to design a Maritime Centre to Toyosu area, Tokyo. The activities of the centre are educational, scientific and recreational. The floor area of the new complex is app. 10.000 sqm. The project has a thematic emphasis, which is relationships between man-made constructions and nature. We will continue the…

Antti Ahlava and Natalia Vladykina from Group X have contributed to Goethe Institute Singapore’s project Culture | Smart City as Fellows of Goethe-Institut Singapur. The project Culture | Smart City aims to create a long term network and platform to contemplate and (re)imagine urban cultural transformation within the smart…

Main Street – the collaboration study project between RCA’s Service Design and Aalto University’s Architecture has been part of Designs for a Cooler Planet event (exhibition and seminars) Wed 08.09.2021 – Wed 29.09.2021: The Designs for a Cooler Planet exhibition showcases 30 projects for a more sustainable future Designs…

In spring 2021, Group X organized a building design studio course (Advanced Building Design Studio) at Aalto University Department of Architecture, in collaboration with the Architecture Department of Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT), Tokyo, Japan, and its professors Kiwa Matsushita and Satoru Yamashiro. The Aalto student’s assignment was to…

The Light & Space Academy wing of Group X (led by post-doc Julle Oksanen and doctoral researcher, architect Hannu Tikka) has started cooperation with Dr. Franz Hölker’s research group at The Light Pollution and Ecophysiology Unit of the Department of Ecohydrology at the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland…

After the huge success of School as a Service (SaaS), comes the new project Aalto Main Street! In process of development by Aalto University Department of Architecture A multidisciplinary joint studio course for master level will take place in Autum 2020 in collaboration with the Service Design Programme of…

School as a Service has received its 7th award, and 2nd international award since its creation in 2015. The Human City Design Award by the Seoul Design Foundation, has selected School as a Service as a winner. The idea of School as a Service (SaaS) was developed by Antti…

Identity of Space From Think Corner To think Buildings, Helsinki University Central Campus After having turned its administration building into Think Corner – an open mixed-use event space with cafeteria, meeting rooms, individual work space, and the gym, Helsinki University wants to apply a similar strategy of openness, encounters and diversity to the other…

This course is part of ‘Lähiöfest’ – a festival of neighbourhoods that aims to create discussion and catalyse new initiatives to empower locality in cities. The festival has been organised bi-annually since 2015 in different cities. Aalto University has the pleasure to collaborate with the festival already for the…

Download the catalogue here The Art of Heat Exhibition is presenting the results from a multidisciplinary studio in the ARTS Department of Aalto University. Developed by the Department of Architecture by joining the fields of Architecture, Interior Design, and Fashion Design. It was carried out for the first time…

It was in 2017 when the first edition of the course “Introduction in Architecture & Architectural Lightning Design” started at the University College of Southeast Norway (USN). The course objective is to pursuit through lectures and workshops the essentials of architectural lightning; from its design history, existing roles, design…

Light and Space Academy at Group X started to collaborate with Leibniz Institute in Berlin, Germany. The main target is to minimize light pollution and energy consumption by studying and doing the “Interdisciplinary Eco-Architectural Darkness Design & Pragmatism”, Creating a design guide booklet with recommendations. The first Light and Space…

Students Think Otaniemi Architecture Stoa is the Greek term for a publicly-used outdoor, covered walkway where the public debate took place in ancient Greece. Generally framed by a wall, a roof and an open colonnade, the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto designed several stoas for the Otaniemi campus. Nowadays, when…

ARK-E2003 Building Design Studio 2A design course for max. 30 master level students 8.1.-9.4.2019Tuesdays at 13-17 Responsible teachersprof. Antti Ahlava antti.ahlava@aalto.fimain instructor: Alejandro Campos alejandro.camposuribe@aalto.fi course instructors: Pauliina Kujala pauliina.kujala@live.comMeri Wiikinkoski wiikinkoskim@gmail.comOssi Konttinen ossi.konttinen@bm-ark.fiSelina Anttinen selina.anttinen@aoa.fiMatias Kotilainen matias.kotilainen@aalto.fi The task is THE NEW ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN MUSEUM in Helsinki. What…

The book Challenging the City Scale: Journeys in People-Centred Design has just been published by Birkhäuser Verlag. Edited by Cité du design Saint-Étienne and Clear Village London, it is the final publication of the European project Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale 2014-2018, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of…

The Exit School of Architecture exhibition will be shown at the 13th Tallinn Design Festival on September 10-16, 2018 at the Balti Jaam pavilion (Toompuiestee 37) in Tallinn, Estonia. The Exit School of Architecture project examines shared local identities and meanings in new Finnish architecture. It looks at the…

The final Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale 2014-2018 event will be held in Tallinn during the 13th Tallinn Design Festival (XIII Disainiöö) on September 10-16, 2018. Human Cities is this year’s theme of the festival. The XIII Tallinn Design Festival will be held from 10 to 16 September 2018….

The Thinking Incubator in Otaniemi studio course will hold its Final Review next Tuesday 15.5 at 13:15 at Aalto University Department of Architecture (Miestentie 3, room 211), as part of Aalto Festival 2018, the group of events showcasing the talents of Aalto University. Guest critics in the review will…

The publication Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale 2014-2018 / Investigation has just been launched. Published by Cité du design Saint-Étienne, it is the result of the collaborative research work made from all the case studies collected by the European partners participating in the project, including Group X and Aalto…

Group X’s Professor Jarmo Suominen, together with artist Bao Xiying, have received with their artwork “Light of my life” the third prize in the public art competition for the artwork to Alberganportti light traffic underpass in Leppävaara, organised by the City of Espoo. More information about the competition here…

We at Group X have just published the catalogue of the exhibition “Exit School of Architecture”, held in the Dipoli building on the Otaniemi campus in September 12-29, 2017, within Human Cities Helsinki 2017, the group of activities held at Aalto University last September as part of the European…

A new form of platform economy is revolutionising teaching at the Aalto University campus. The School as a Service model is spreading. Read the full article here.

Dietmar Eberle, Professor of Architecture and Design at ETH Zurich Department of Architecture and founding partner of Baumschlager Eberle Architekten, visited Aalto University last October to give a lecture titled ‘200 100 50 20 10’ at the Department of Architecture. Read a recap on his visit here. Picture courtesy…

WORKSHOP AT AALTO UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE November 24, 2017, 10:00-18:00 / Miestentie 3, room 127 INSTRUCTORS > Belinda Tato > José Luis Vallejo HOST > Dr. Fernando Nieto, fernando.nieto@aalto.fi (enrollment) Urbanism is the mirror in which the many aspects and layers of society are reflected. Cities were first…

Bilbao 15-18 November 2017 The travelling Human Cities exhibition in 2016-2018 presents the process and results of co-creating activities in the experimental Labs of all the Human Cities partners in ten different European cities. The next upcoming Exhibition is landing in Bilbao during the Bilbao Design Week. Every exhibition…

WORKSHOP AT AALTO UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE November 10, 2017, 10:00-18:00 / Miestentie 3, room 127 > 10-12 Introduction > 12-13 Lunch break > 13-16 Work in progress > 16-17 Critical session > 17-18 Visualization development INSTRUCTORS PhD Architects > José Manuel López Ujaque > Francisco García Triviño >…

Light & Space Academy holds a new course called “Introduction to Lighting Design” this Autumn Semester 2017 at the University College of Southeast Norway (USN) organised by Professors Hannu Tikka and Julle Oksanen. Through lectures and workshops, the course is tackling the essentials of architecture, architectural lighting design history…

Find in the next link the summary of the past Human Cities Helsinki 2017 group of events held in September: Sharing Playfulness – Human Cities Helsinki 2017. Here is the video summary: Other stories of the cities involved in the project can be found filtering by category or city…

Group X is collaborating again with the Professorship of Building Design (Prof. Pirjo Sanaksenaho) in the studio course on the topic Psychiatric Hospital in Laakso (Helsinki), to be held at Aalto University Department of Architecture during this Autumn Semester 2017. The Building Design Studio task is to design a…

We are happy to announce that Group X member M.Sc.(Arch.) Julle Oksanen, one of the Light & Space Academy leaders, has just become PhD in Architecture, D.Sc.(Arch.), with a dissertation titled “Design Concepts in Architectural Outdoor Lighting Design Based on Metaphors as a Heuristical Tool”. Julle defended his doctoral…

In September 2017 Group X representing Aalto University, Helsinki partner in the Human Cities network, welcomes the other partners from ten European cities to a unique international creative event “Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale/Helsinki 2017” featuring an exhibition and a collaborative workshop. Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale 2014-2018 is…

Aalto University and MIT Media Lab wish to use Aalto University Otaniemi campus and its surroundings as a Living Lab to test and evaluate urban innovation. To foster a mutually beneficial collaboration, MIT and AU have initiated a cooperation on the creation of the City Science Lab @ Aalto…

Group X will participate in the Sri Lanka Hambantota International Cultural Exchange Centre and Innovation Expo Action Plan Workshop, an international workshop with local government and Universities to be held in Sri Lanka from June 21th to 27th, 2017. Academic institutions taking part in the workshop are the Shanghai…

Human Cities Event / Ljubljana 23–27 May 2017 PUBLIC SPACES FOR LOCAL LIFE / Shared values in diversified urban communities as a foundation for participatory provision of local public spaces. A joint event of EU Human Cities: Challenging the city scale project (Creative Europe 2014-2020) and AESOP’s thematic group…

Architecture Building Design Master Course exhibition presents projects, which are based on a real initiative and need for spaces for a media education centre as part of Aalto University. The University has suggested a site in the centre of Otaniemi, near the new building of the School of Arts,…

Final Review for Studio Hong Kong: Diversifying Forms of Living with the Aalto University Department of Architecture presents the Master of Architecture student designs for hyperdensity and verticality in housing in Hong Kong. The studio is organised by Group X at Aalto and funded by the EU Human Cities…