An outcome of my personal struggles, inquiries and great excitement, this study attempts to answer a question that although it is surprisingly simple I have yet to find a simple answer and thus I find it important to not ...

In this thesis work I will argue for programming in the field of architecture. Through the realization of a wooden building – for the Vaasa’s Wooden Tower of Innovation competition – I am going to explore and demonstrate ...

Social sustainability has a number of features that complicate its direct study. It is simultaneously a state and a process, something hard to define but important to support. This research suggests a mediate approach. It ...

Archaeological excavations in Tursiannotko region - located in Pikkalankylä, Pirkkala - show evidence that there were people living in that area since the late Iron Age. The findings give us some information on how people ...

In the beginning of new century, on the wave of ICT pervasion collaborative urban design was expected to boost, but digitalization of established practices was far to be a cure-all solution. Many successful planning systems ...