Myllypuro Housing Block // Helsinki // Finland

This is a social-housing project by the Finnish architects, ALA, the architectural firm that also designed the Kilden Performing Arts Center in Norway, which I have written about earlier. This project is built on a 14.000 m2 plot as illustrated bellow:

The project makes great use of terraces in its exterior, in order to allow the inhabitants of the building to have an outdoor space of their own. The terraces are also arranged in such away, that they are maximally exposed to natural daylight. These terraces create a new, more fresh and healthy style of building dense residential buildings, and also creates a new image to the older, more traditional, and might I say, more boring concrete block dense residential structures.