Shadow installation at Helsinki City Museum
“The Falkman’s courtyard will be filled by Willem Heeffer and Jussi Karjalainen’s light installation Around Helsinki, based on shadow theatre techniques. The installation features familiar and less familiar landmarks of Helsinki, including Hotel Torni, Merihaka, Linnanmäki, a kiosk and an old street lamp, alongside iconic urban transport vehicles ranging from an old tram to a […]
Eliel Saarinen Tribune tower at HAM
Five Finnish museums join forces to celebrate Finland’s centennial year 2017 with a major joint exhibition. Modern Life! It showcases the success story of Finnish architecture including the never built skyscraper designed for the Chicago Tribune tower competition by Eliel Saarinen, 1922 The scale model is 2.35 meters tall and used up over 40m2 material. […]
Type-house models for HAM
The type-house models take part of the exhibition Modern Life at Ham. It showcases the success story of Finnish architecture and design. After the Second World War the standard system for house design took on great potency, with the creation of the so-called Rintamamiestalo house (literally: War-front soldier’s house). Basic timber constructed houses with rooms […]
Helsinki Mobile
This mobile consists of 24 laser cut birch plywood landmarks in Helsinki. The landmarks of which mostly buildings are accurate representations of the reality with an incredible amount of detail. The mobile is very tactile and moves freely with the slightest current, impressive from whatever angle you look at it. Materials used are stainless steel […]
Merihaka bronze model
Merihaka is a seashore residential area in central Helsinki, Finland consisting of large high-rise concrete housing blocks. We realised a way finding model in Bronze. A process which started with glueing together miniatures buildings in wood to the casting of a 110 kg bronze. 1300+ pieces in 0.6, 1.5 and 3 mm plywood […]
Bread of word – Frankfurt
Installation by Willem Heeffer and Jussi Karjalainen on invitation of the Design Forum Finland for the Frankfurt Bookfair to promote Finnish culture and literature during a 30 minute event. The installation comprised almost two hundred plates, each of which features a unique excerpt of Finnish literature. The plates where distributed to visitors at the Fair […]
Scenografie Helsinki – Bronze model casting
Producing a scalable model of Helsinki as a constellation of key projects – a starting point for a new city in the spirit of Piranesi’s Scenographia Campo Marzio. Each student produced 3 duplicates in cast bronze of a miniature key project in Helsinki. This whole process took place in house at the Kulttuurisauna starting with […]
Chocolate architecture
I was asked to give a creative workshop for the Dutch Embassy in Helsinki, Finland. The workshop was hosted by the Kulttuurisauna which is an independent institution of architecture & urbanism. I wanted to give the participants a sense of home as well as a tasty treat. I brought in laser cut basic facades, tools […]
“Unbuilt Helsinki” the process
Unbuilt Helsinki is an exhibition about the unbuilt city and its inhabitants curated by Åbäke & Nene Tsuboi with the archives of the Museum of Finnish Architecture. ‘Unbuilt Helsinki’ is not a critique of Helsinki as it is. This is an alternative present and future. A parallel city where ambitious and utopian visions are realized. […]
“UNBUILT HELSINKI” Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki
I didn’t build a city. 1 1. I didn’t draw the roads. I didn’t paint any trees. I didn’t lay down pathways. Places for people to sit. Stare. Lust. Cry. I didn’t design their dreams. I didn’t set the horizon. I didn’t put in dogs, their snarls, needy panting, those hurled sticks, measures of obedience. […]
Dublin Flats at the IIA, Dubin, Ireland
Dublin Flats, photographs of social housing 2006-2009. Exhibited at the Irish Architectural Archive. “Clear and detached, these photographs record a number of Dublin social housing schemes built between the late 1950s and the early 1970s. All were photographed as they were being, or just after they had been, cleared of tenants in preparation for their […]
TGV train platform design, Rotterdam
The black and white series are a result of my research in railroad related spaces and architecture. Due to upgrading of the railroads and a ‘better’ use of space next to it this documented railroad “language” is slowly disappearing. For the design of the TGV platform in Rotterdam, The Netherlands I proposed to musealise disappearing […]