Model exhibition “H-school” in the lobby of EKA

Starting from the first week of January 2026, an exhibition of ideas for renewing standard school buildings will be on display in the lobby of the Estonian Academy of Arts.

The exhibition features works completed by 2nd and 3rd year architecture and urban design students in the 2025 autumn semester, illustrated by school models.

“The studio looked for ways to design an H-shaped Soviet-era standard school building into a modern school space. Five H-type school buildings were considered, located in locations with different population densities, environments, and spatial needs.
All solutions are diverse, but they also share similar features, which, when compared, can be used to establish more general architectural principles to modernize H-type school buildings.”

Supervisors of the “School Studio”: Kertu Johanna Jõeste, Tristan Krevald, Ra Martin Puhkan, Siim Tanel Tõnisson (studio TÄNA); Mart Kalm (theory, history)