Green Areas

Urban Space by Artists’ Association MUU
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki city centre
Helsinki, Finland 2005

The Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier stated that houses should be built in parks. The town plans he designed formed the basis for the idea of park-like living environments. These types of areas were also built in Finland in the 1960s, as exemplified by the Maunula area in Helsinki. The idea of green areas around housing flats survived; however, these areas gradually became smaller as the demands for building efficiency increased. In my work, Green Areas, I represent the evolution of Maunula’s green areas. Metsäpurontie 9 was built in the 1970s and Mannerheimintie 172 in the neighboring Ruskeasuo area was built towards the end of the 1980s.