Projects

On February 14, 2026, the winners of the Association of Architects, Interior Architects and Landscape Architects and the Cultural Endowment Awards will be announced. Along with many alumni, we would like to highlight our student and ...

The Estonian Academy of Arts Interior Architecture students built the outdoor toilet “Julla” at the camping area of ​​the State Forest Management Centre (RMK) at the tip of the Juminda peninsula, which takes into account the virtues of ...

The Department of Interior Architecture at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) is organising a summer school this summer as part of the Opinion Festival, where students will build a stage for the festival. The ...

As of June 2025, there are a total of 898 prisoners with other mother tongues in Estonian prisons (56% of all prisoners). All of them will be released at some point and return to society, where knowledge of the ...

From 2023-2026, the Department of Interior Architecture will work closely with the Exhibition Design Institute of the Peter Behrens School of Art (PBSA) in Düsseldorf and with Masayo Ave, a Japanese designer based in Berlin. The focus of the ...

As part of ‘Experimental Form’, a joint course within the Estonian Academy of Arts’, Fashion, Accessory, and Textile Design programme, an exhibition of garment sculptures was created for the ninth year, with the spatial design process ...

Our department is part of a 3-year-long Erasmus+ Cooperation partnership called the ‘UpGranT – Updating the Grand Tour. Memory and Invention of the European Built Environment’, ...

In January 2023, the first sleep center of its kind in Estonia was opened in Tallinn Children’s Hospital, which was designed by Ardo Hiiuväin, a graduate of the Department of Interior Architecture of the Estonian Academy of Art. Sleep medicine ...

The Klooga floating sauna project by EKA interior architecture students was recognized with the title of Harju County Maker of the Year 2022. Harju County Maker of the ...

Over the past year, the students of the interior architecture department of EKA have been working under the tutelage of Ardo Hiiuväin, an interior architect from Vilsandi Island, and several other tutors, to ensure that the people of Vilsandi ...

During the three-year program, bachelor’s students in interior architecture completed a tight programme of theoretical and practical subjects, acquired professional competencies in internships both in Estonia and abroad, and gained experiences ...

Master students in interior architecture have just completed a 10-day master’s studio under the direction of interior designer Tom Callebaut (KU Leuven, Belgium), with co-tutoring by prof Tüüne-Kristin ...

Our first-year BA students just finished a two-week small objects workshop tutored by Pavle Stamenović (AFUB, Serbia). Titled Enthusiastic Structures, you might have seen the resulting student works/experiments in ...

Details of the work and preparation process of students Ardo Hiiuväina, Linda Zuppingu, Semele Kari, Mirell Ülle and othersSupervisors: Tüüne-Kristin Vaikla, Alina Nurmist, Silver Sternfeldt, Mari Põld, Kadi ...

What is public space? Who needs public space? How does the nature of public space change in time and space? Public space concerns us as city citizens; it is a space of movement and being, which encompasses and reflects ...

In the spring semester of 2021, architect Johanna Jõekalda supervised the 2nd year special project of interior architecture students, Exhibition Space. Students were given the task of designing an exhibition space at the request of the ...

In the last two weeks of August 2020, the first-year interior design students of EKA worked in the twin city of Valga-Valka, erecting a pavilion KOOS along the Pedeli dam lake.

RÜHT is a multi-purpose shelter that offers a spot to hide from the wind and the rain or snow, find cover for an ascetic night in the woods or provides a picnic area for daytime hikes and chance to a pleasantly stretch for those on a longer ...

The aim of the studio for interior architecture students of the 2nd year of bachelor’s studies, which deals with the educational space, is to design an interior architectural solution on the example of a room type corresponding to one ...

The annual specialty project “Seating” of the first-year students of the Department of Interior Architecture and Architecture at EKA opens the door to the world of furniture, asking how much – or how little – material is actually needed ...

In 2020, the master’s studio “Political Space” of the Department of Interior Architecture of EKA included both the gathering of theoretical knowledge on the relationship between politics and space and a practical project on the example ...

The stair studio invites 2nd year interior architecture students to create conceptually and spatially clear architecture, where the idea and detailed implementation are constantly related to the context of the work. Through analysis and spatial ...

What is a home and what makes be a good living space if the starting point and unit for the space is an ascetic, ubiquitous sea container? And so that the task given to 2nd year undergraduate students would not be too simple: ...

The effects of space on human health have been known since the 1980s, when the first scientific study proved that patients in a ward with a window recover better from surgery than in a ward without a window (E.M. Sternberg, ...

Working on specialty project “Object” helps students to understand all stages of the design and development process of a design object, from the formulation of the initial task and the development of the initial idea to the creation of a ...

The 3rd year of the bachelor’s study of interior architecture students at EKA begins with a subject on public space. The aim of the subject is to delve into the different typologies of public space and the peculiarities of interior architecture, ...

The first year of the Bachelor's degree program of the Department of Interior Architecture of the Estonian Academy of Arts designed and built 12 plywood connectors in the autumn semester of 2016. What is a “connector” ...

In August 2016, a group of students from architecture, design and art universities in the Cirrus network spent 10 days in a summer workshop in Soomaa forests, Estonia, studying the unique context of the area, where the landscape is severely ...