International students completed project for post-soviet residential area in Tallinn.
Spaces between soviet era panel buildings are not considered as places which could be used by inhabitants nowadays. The yard is in the property of the local government, that is, as locals say, the main reason for passive attitude towards a territory with a great potential.
This intervention was planned to change people’s attitude towards the particular green area, which has been temporarily divided into spots for individual use of each apartment (with around 320 spots in total). By increasing individual activity on the spots, local community could consider further common usage of the yard and possibly be exemplary to other similar yards in general, as during the intervention period people apprehend the space in a new way, as their ‘own’ land. Thus providing more long-term interest and attention to the so long impersonal empty space.
