Under the supervision of junior researchers Siim Tuksam and Sille Pihlak of the Faculty of Architecture, in the spring semester of 2020, 3rd year architecture students designed the reconstruction of the Tallinn bus station with an additional function of seven thousand square meters.
The aim of the project is to make the bus station more accessible to both light traffic and public transport users, but also to the bus station customers by creating so-called park and ride and kiss and ride parking spaces to facilitate the preference for public transport on long-distance routes. At the heart of the studio’s design methodology were the principles of modular wood construction and manufacturing, as well as digital tools from the point of view of both automation and analysis and optimization.
The project offered the bus station property and the adjacent city land a modern wooden high-rise and a coherent urban space that takes into account the entire traffic, which stands for the reduction of the carbon footprint both physically and functionally.