The Garden home is a project designed to be built for the Loviisa Housing fair in 2023. It is a townhouse with timber built apartments topped by greenhouses for private gardening and flexible indoor-outdoor living.
Special quality of life in the Garden home
The greenhouses collect the warmth of the sun creating a long harvest season for an indoor farmer or one that wants to enjoy the possibility of enlarged living areas on the sheltered terraces.
The greenhouses can be equipped with efficient hydroponic food production techniques, with simple planters filled with soil or anything between these.
The terrace spaces offer functional flexibility to the life span of the building. They can serve as naturally lit continuation of the living rooms, places for play and social gathering or can be equipped with facilities for remote working.
The glazed seaside facades shelter the townhouses from exposure to the winds allowing the sunlight in.
The townhouses are built with CLT allowing solid, simple structures and a minimal carbon footprint .
Project team
Pekka Pakkanen, Antti Mikola
in co-operation with Robert Jordas and Kalevi Ilonen
Client
Joint building
Year
2021-
