A Demonstrative Design

The design situates on a brownfield in Northern Tallinn. This 1.2km2 urban void consists multiple large-scale industrial complexes surrounding the former Kopli Freight Station. It qualifies as a promising site to accommodate future placeless people for its coexisting conditions space availability, people and industrial accessibility, and most importantly, the socio-spatial challenges faced by local people where a placeless population can be introduced as a driver to alternative solutions.

Masterplan

The design adds new live-work paradigms to the local identities of residential neighborhoods while seeking to revitalize the industrial marks of the site through industry 4.0 developments under the collaboration of local tech business and digital nomads from all over the world. Given the enormous scale of the site and the intricate socio-economic conditions of the local society, the masterplan establishes 3 hierarchies of space in cope with different aspects of the overall visions:
- revitalize local industrial identity through placeless workforce under industry 4.0;
- encourage digital nomads to participate in remediating the employments faced by local people;
- accommodate flexible live-work habits of placeless people as informed by digital nomads

Design Schemes - Hierarchies of Space

PUBLIC GROUND

Nomad x Nomad

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Public Ground

Situating at crucial traffic intersections on both urban and regional scales, the former Volta Industrial Quartor and the former Baltic Freight Station pose great opportunities for the future nomad activities. In addition to providing social infrastructures for remote work and public events, the design of public ground aims to facilitate business interactions between placeless workforce and local tech companies through open access to the demonstration park of Industry 4.0 business.

<sub>Industrial 4.0 Park


Baltic Station Nomad Center</sub>

INTERMEDIATE GROUND

Nomad x Local

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INTERMEDIATE GROUND

By converting the former Baltic Manufactory campus into hand-shaking spots for tech education and career transition, the intermediate ground will help the former manufactory workers with new employment opportunities and bridge them with the growing social presence of placeless people in tech workforce.

_{Tallinn Tech Education & Career Campus}

COMMUNITY GROUND

Nomad -> Local

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COMMUNITY GROUND

The community ground incorporates placeless work-life habits with locality by bridging the neighborhoods of two sides with shared housings, nomad amenities, and personal mobility services. It aims to not only provide local living experience for the placeless population but also bring opportunities of new work-life options to the inactive economy of local communities.

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