portfolio karli luik

Portfolio Karli Luik

Name: Karli Luik

Date of birth: 19.12.1977

Qualification: Chartered/Principal Architect, level 7

Work history: 2014- Kontekst studio (founder). Tallinn, Estonia 2004/14 Salto architects (founder). Tallinn, Estonia 2002/04 Arhitektuuriagentuur. Tallinn, Estonia

Education: 2005 Central European University. Budapest, Hungary. MA in Gender Studies 2003 Estonian Academy of Arts. Tallinn, Estonia. Master of Architecture 1996 Hugo Treffner Gymnasium. Tartu, Estonia. Secondary education.

Selected built works: 2014 Group of Apartment Buildings in Pirita, Tallinn, Estonia 2013 Environmental Education Centre in Pärnu, Estonia 2013 Viljandi State High School, Estonia 2013 G4S Headquaters in Tallinn, Estonia 2012 Baltic Film and Media School; Tallinn, Estonia 2012 Installation Fast Track; Nikola-Lenivets, Russia 2012 Prisma supermarket in Tartu, Estonia 2011 NO99 Straw theatre; Tallinn, Estonia 2011 Exhibition design for the 15th Tallinn Print Triennial 2010 Open Air Exhibition Areas of the Estonian Road Museum; Varbuse, Estonia 2010 Sõmeru Community Centre; Sõmeru, Estonia 2009 Sports hall for Estonian University of Life Sciences; Tartu, Estonia 2009 Sports hall in Paide; Estonia 2007 Extension of the Tartu City Centre School; Tartu, Estonia 2007 Apartment Building in Tartu, Estonia

Selected competitions (*international/**invited): 2014 Planning of the Northern Area of the Port of Tallinn; 1st prize 2014 Tallinn Architeture Biennale, curator competition; 1st prize 2013 Estonian Puppet Theatre in Tallinn; 3rd prize 2013** Railway Workers´ Clubhouse Renovation; Tallinn, Estonia; 1st prize 2013 Estonian National Archive in Tartu; Honourable Mention 2012 Urban sculpture “Notice the addiction”; Tallinn, Estonia; 1st prize 2011** G4S headquarters; Tallinn, Estonia; 1st prize 2010 Viljandi State High School; Estonia; 1st prize 2010* Renovation and Extension of the Latvian National Museum of Art; Riga, Latvia; 2nd prize

2010 Heino Eller Music School Extension; Tartu, Estonia; 2nd prize 2010** Planning and design for a Group of Apartment Buildings in Pirita; Tallinn, Estonia;1st prize 2012** Prisma supermarket in Tartu; Estonia; 1st prize 2009** Historical Barge Society Building; Tartu, Estonia; 1st prize 2009 Baltic Media and Film School and planning of the Courtyard Area of the Tallinn University Campus; Estonia; 1st prize 2009* New Administrative Building for Tallinn City Government; Tallinn, Estonia; Honourable Mention 2009 Sustainable Office Building; Tartu, Estonia; 1st prize 2008** Planning of Hippodrome Area; Tallinn, Estonia; 1st prize (shared) 2008** Apartment and Retail Building in Tallinn Rotermann District; 1st prize 2007 Sports hall for Estonian University of Life Sciences; Tartu, Estonia; 1st prize 2007*/** Business and retail complex in Tallinn harbour area; 1st prize 2007*/** Botanical Garden of Latvian University; Riga, Latvia; 1st prize 2007* Vocational Education Centre; Paide, Estonia; 2nd prize 2006 Sports hall in Paide; Estonia; 1st prize 2006 Kiviõli Central Square; Kiviõli, Estonia; 2nd prize 2006 Tallinn University of Technology Library; Estonia; 2nd prize 2006 Planning and design for a Group of Apartment Buildings in Tartu, Estonia; 1st prize 2005 Concepts for Reexploitation of Skåne Bastion; Tallinn, Estonia; 1st prize 2005** Extension of the Tartu City Centre School; 1st prize 2005 Graveyard Area for the Union of Estonian Architects; Tallinn, Estonia; 1st prize 2005 Narva College of the University of Tartu; Estonia; 2nd prize 2005 Vehicle Bridge in Tartu; Estonia; 2nd prize 2004 Open Air Exhibition Areas of the Estonian Road Museum; Varbuse, Estonia; 2nd prize 2004 Sõmeru Community Centre; Sõmeru, Estonia; 1st prize 2004 Track and Field Manage; Pärnu, Estonia; 1st prize 2003 Central Square in Kuressaare; Estonia; 3rd prize 2002 Administration building of Wood district; Triigi, Estonia; 2nd prize

Awards: 2013 Annual Architecture Award of the Architecture Endowment of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia (Viljandi State High School) 2013 Tallinn Culture and Heritage Department: Best Building in Historic Environment Award (Baltic Film and Media School) 2013 Wienerberger Baltic Brick and Roof Award (House in Antsal) 2012 Annual Architecture Award of the Architecture Endowment of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia (Baltic Film and Media School) 2012 Tallinn Culture and Heritage Department: Best Building in Historic Environment Award (Baltic Film and Media School) 2011 Annual Architecture Award of the Architecture Endowment of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia (NO99 Straw Theatre) 2011 World Architecture Festival: Highly commended in Culture Category (NO99 Straw Theatre) 2010 Estonian National Culture Award (Sõmeru Community Centre)

CV

2010 Annual Award of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia (Sõmeru Community Centre and Estonian Road Museum) 2010 The Annual Award of the Union of Estonian Landscape Architects ( Open Air Exhibition Areas of the Estonian Road Museum) 2010 Wooden Building of the Year in Estonia: Best Facade ( Sõmeru Community Centre) 2010 Concrete Building of the Year in Estonia: Special Prize ( Open Air Exhibition Areas of the Estonian Road Museum) 2009 Best Building of the Year in Tartu: Best New Building (Sports hall for Estonian University of Life Sciences) 2009 Wooden Building of the Year in Estonia: Best Facade ( Sports hall for Estonian University of Life Sciences) Estonia (Tartu City Centre School) 2007 Best Building of the Year in Tartu: Best Extension/Reconstruction (Tartu City Centre School) 2007 Best Building of the Year in Tartu: Best New Building (Apartment Building in Tartu Aleksandri street)

Selected exhibitions: 2013 Tallinn Architecture Biennale Curators` Exhibition; Estonia 2012 Annual Exhibition of the Estonian Architects Union; Estonia 2011 WAF shortlist exhibition; Barcelona, Spain 2011 Prague Architecture Week; Prague, Czech Republic 2011 Salto architects present: Models 2004-2011; Design Gallery; Tallinn, Estonia 2011 50 MAJA/50 MAISONS; Paris, France 2010 100 MAJA/100 Houses; Venice, Italy 2008/11 BOOM/ROOM: New Estonian Architecture; Tallinn, London, Moscow etc.

Selected talks/presentations: 2014 The best graduation projects seminar; Vilnius , Lithuania 2014 OSSA workshop; Pecha-kucha night, Szczechin, Poland 2013 Archrevolution; Brest, Belarus 2012 Archstoyanie; Nikola-Lenivets, Russia 2012 Sofia Architecture Week; Bulgaria 2012 Nordic Look; Tallinn, Estonia 2011 Ökomäss; Tallinn, Estonia 2011 Skopje Architecture Week; Macedonia 2011 BOOM/ROOM seminar; Moscow, Russia 2011 Prague Architecture Week; Prague, Czech Republic 2011 World Architecture Festival; Barcelona, Spain 2010 BOOM /ROOM seminar; London, United Kingdom 2009 Ecoarchitecture seminar; Tartu, Estonia

Academic work: 2014 OSSA International student workshop (tutor); Szczecin, Poland 2013 Archrevolution Internationa Workshop (tutor); Brest, Belarus 2006/07 2012/14 3rd year studio supervisor at Estonian Academy of Arts; Tallinn, Estonia

Publications: Feministlik varemeporno. Sirp, 31.10.2014 Kawe avalikust arhitektuurivõistlusest. Sirp, 3.07.2014. Fear of architcture. Estonian Art 1/2013 Bussirajad kui ajalik performance. Eesti Päevaleht 10.08.2012. Sammas number kaks. Eesti Päevaleht. 05.05.2011. Short Anthology of 21. Century Parks in Estonia (with Ralf Lõoke). Maja / Estonian Architectural Review nr. 3/2006 Subjective Dictionary of Suburbia (with Ingrid Ruudi). Maja / Estonian Architectural Review nr. 3/2005 (45). Rock-Music from Budapest. Epifanio nr.1/2005. 40 Finnish Negroes. Maja / Estonian Architectural Review nr. 1-2/2004 (40). Anaalekspeditsioon Ida-Virumaal. Ehituskunst nr.4/2003.

Selected reviews: Books: What’s up, 15 young European Architects; Lettera Ventidue (2012); 1000 X European Architecture; Verlagshaus Braun (2012); Cultural Architectural Space. The Art of Libraries: Constructing Reading Paradise; Design Vision International Publishing, Hong Kong (2011); Atlas of Landscape; International Book Publishing Center (IBPC), China (2011); 21st Century World Architecture ;International Book Publishing Center (IBPC)(2011); The Architecture and Design for Cultural and Sports Activities, ThinkArchit Group, (2011); Performing Art Buildings: Theatre & Cinema, Design Vision Int., Hong Kong (2011); Architecture for Culture and Education, Boyuan Space Int. Press, Hong Kong (2011); The X-Files of Architecture, Saihan Cultural, China(2011); Façades – Design, Construction & Technology, Braun Publishing(2011); Sculptural Architecture,Gestalten, Germany(2011); International Architecture Design Yearbook 2011, Madison Series, China(2011); ARCHI+SCAPE!: Architectural Form & Landscape, Dopress Books, China (2011); New European Architecture 10|11; Sun architecture, A10; Amsterdam, Netherlands (2010); 1000 X European Architecture; Verlagshaus Braun (2007) etc.

Magazines: MARK (The Netherlands), TOPOS (Germany), A10 (The Netherlands), D’architectures (France), The Architectural Review (GB), Bauwelt (Germany), C3 (Korea), Interior design (Taiwan), PLUS (Korea), Details (Korea), SPACE (Korea), Zeppelin (Romania), The Big Issue (Taiwan), RUM (Sweden), Konstruktiv (Germany), Projekt Baltija (Russia), Beyond magazine (China), LUEL magazine (Korea), Deutsche Bauzeitung (Germany), PLAN magazine (Irland), OCTOGON(Hungary), Realit magazine (Czech rep.), Workshop (China), Kulturaustausch (Germany), H.O.M.E (Austria), Husk magazine (GB), Architecture Technique (China), Fast Company Magazine (USA), BaunetzWissen (Germany), AMC (France) etc.

Internet: ABC News, A4D, ArchDaily, Archeb, Archello, Architizer, Arthitectural, Arquitectura beta, Architectuul, Bloomberg, Contemporist, Daily Mail, Dezeen, Designboom, e-architect, FRAME, Guardian, Saachi gallery etc.

01 Exhibition Design for “Untold stories”02 NO99 Straw theatre03 Group of Apartment Buildings in Pirita04 Pärnu Environmental Education Centre05 Sõmeru Community Centre06 G4S Office Building07 Viljandi Secondary School08 Baltic Film and Media School09 Estonian Road Museum10 installation “Fast track“ 11 Prisma Shopping Centre12 House in Antsla13 Sports Hall of the Estonian University of Life Sciences14 Paide Sports Hall15 House in Aseri16 Kesklinna School Extension17 Apartment Building in Aleksandri street18 Jewelry Gallery in Old Town19 Monument “Notice the addiction”20 Renovation and Extension of Latvian National Museum of Art21 Tallinn City Hall22 Historical Barge Society Building23 Business & Retail Complex in Tallinn Harbor24 Vehicle Bridge in Tartu25 Revitalisation of Skone Bastion26 Christmas decorations27 Exhibiton at the Tallinn Architecture Biennale “Floorshow”28 Private House in Nõmme29 Art object for New Clinic30 Ülemiste Transportation Terminal

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The contemporary art exhibition titled Untold Stories, which was part of both the European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011 and the Diversity Enriches project focused on the problems of sexual minorities, primarily as they relate to social, political and historical issues.

The exhibition was accompanied by a diverse programme of events that includes discussions, screenings, and presenta-tions.

The architectural design of the exhibition tried to create an experimental “queer space”, which would support the exhibi-tion’s conceptual point of departure. The hanging video boxes blur the notions of inside and outside having an unusual – vi-sual as well as audible - contact between the exhibition space and video screening areas.

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Exhibition Design for “Untold stories”

7.05-26.06.2011

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Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia

Karli Luik

NO99 Straw Theatre is an object standing on the verge of being a pure functional container on one hand, and an art installa-tion on the other. The Straw Theatre was built on the occasion of Tallinn being the European Capital of Culture, to house a special summer season programme of the-atre NO99. Thus it is a temporary building built for a specific purpose, programme and location.The Straw Theatre is built in central Tallinn, on top of the former Skoone bastion, one of the best preserved baroque fortifications of Tallinn. At the beginning of the 20th century, the bastion worked as a public garden, and during the Soviet era it was more or less restricted recreational area for the Soviet navy with a wooden summer theatre and a park on top. For the last 20 years the bastion has remained a closed and neglected spot. Straw Theatre is an attempt to acknowledge and tem-porarily reactivate the location, test its potential and bring it back to use, doing all this with equally due respect to all historical layers of the site.The dramatic appeal of the building stems from its contextual setting on the site and its black, uncompromisingly mute main volume contrasting with a descending „tail“ with an articulate angular roof. The Straw Theatre is a unique occasion where straw has been used for a large public building and adjusted to a refined archi-tectural form.

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NO99 Straw theatre

01.05-01.10.2011

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Skoone bastion, Tallinn, Estonia

440 m²

Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke, Maarja Kask, Pelle-Sten Viiburg

World Architecture Festival: Highly Com-mended in Culture Category 2011

Annual Architecture Award of the Architecture Endowment of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia 2012

Nomination for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2013

Group of apartment buildings has been conceived in a way to maximally use the quelties of the site. The starlike shaped buildings have apartments with windows in 3 sides mixing the apartment building typology with qualities usually availabe only for private residences.

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Group of Apartment Buildings in Pirita

2014 (completed)2009 (competition)

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Kosemetsa str. 9/11/13, Tallinn, Estonia

3700 m²

Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke, Urmas Lõoke, Mar-gus Tamm, Helin Kukk

Environmental Education Centre explores and aims to blur different kind of bound-aries. Garden becomes building and vice verse. Also the interior structure has very few separated rooms. The flow of inner space between 3 different floor levels creates a grand variety of spaces.

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Pärnu Environmental Education Centre


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Tammsaare str. 57, Pärnu, Estonia

1900 m² (building)11500 m² (garden)

Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke, Maarja Kask, Margus Tamm, Helin Kukk, Andro Mänd, Helen Reane

Community centre combines parish administration, library and a club with a hall. The new centre has to enhance a sense of identity in the quite scattered, mostly Soviet-time settlement. The solution is a compact blend of various functions with enough common spaces and various possible usage ways. The interior and exterior are intermingled, creating a park-like structure – cosy gardens as concentrated pieces of nature offer a counterpart to sparse density of the surrounding environment. The commu-nity centre is single-storeyed, undulating roofline is a result of varying heights of the rooms. Its distinct character stems from using colourful straw-like wooden bars attached to the black-and-white concrete facade. The same aesthetics continues in the interior, only this time the slats are hanging freely from the ceiling, creating a lively accent above the black walls.

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Sõmeru Community Centre


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Sõmeru, Estonia


Ralf Lõoke, Maarja Kask, Karli Luik, Kristiina Arusoo, Margit Argus

Annual Award of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia 2010Estonian National Culture Award 2010Wooden Building of the Year in Estonia: Best facade 2010

G4S office building is a simple box - very utilitarian and cheap building at the out-skirts of Tallinn. Visible only at high speed it has been achieved to make a fast im-pression with its outer curtainlike wooden structure. The structure itself consisting of 9,3 km of 50x250 mm timber forms an everchanging facade that is different according to sun and snow. It also works as sunshield fo the spaces inside.

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G4S Office Building

2013 (completed)2011 (invited competition)

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Paldiski str 80, Tallinn, Estonia

9300 m² (building)

Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke, Maarja Kask, Mar-gus Tamm

The extension to Viljandi State High School makes for a discreet, lowest possible backdrop for the heritage-listed historic building. The solution is based on the characteristics of the plot, situated in a low lakeside land. Orientation towards East-West ensures good natural lightning conditions and enables pleasant views towards lake and theatre and the historic building.On the site of the missing historic wing, an entrance square has been formed. The lakeside works as a more private recreational area wirh sports grounds. The spatial program has been reorganized with almost all classes in the extension and administrative functions in the histor-ic building. The layout avoids convention-al atrium and densely packed classes with narrow corridors, opting for a more vaied solution.

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Viljandi Secondary School


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Viljandi, Estonia

5900 m²

Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke, Maarja Kask, Amdro Mänd, Margus Tamm, Eva Laar-mann

Nomination for Mies van der Rohe award 2015Annual Architecture Award of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia 2013

Urban space belongs to the public, where-as a building is private property. Thus the outer shell of the building may be taken as public property as well. One of our aims was to focus on this outer shell, to use it as an integrating device. Aside of the main program, one very important task of the BFM building was to organize the Tallinn University campus courtyard, consist-ing of several densely located building volumes randomly developed over time. The BFM as the latest addition tries to integrate the area, creating a participato-ry space instead of designing an image or a facade.The building program is very specific, con-sisting of shooting pavilions on the lower floors and small office spaces and editing rooms on the upper floors. The inclined floor of the cinema forms the inclined roof of the exterior stage. The stage works as a main entrance to the building, as a terrace for the cafe, and as a gathering space in front of the atrium. The stage is the element in function of decorum but at the same time it is an essential part of

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Baltic Film and Media School


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Tallinn, Estonia

4000 m²

Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke, Maarja Kask, Kristiina Arusoo, Pelle-Sten Viiburg

Annual Architecture Award of the Architecture Endowment of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia 2012

Tallinn Culture and Heritage Department Prize: Best Building in Historical Environ-ment 2012

The open-air exhibition grounds of the Estonian Road Museum is a mixture of many layers. Not only does it operate on an informative level, it also incorporates opportunities for leisure activities and for experiencing artificial and natural land-scape in a compelling dialogue. The con-cept of the exhibition grounds is based on a road – while passing by, your route will be surrounded by different landscapes. The solution forms a long 8-shaped path, where functions with different charac-ter and scale are placed in succession like a comic strip. All space necessary for the museum is scooped into the hilly South-Estonian landscape, leaving rest of the environment as natural as possible: natural and artificial landscape is clearly separated, yet treated equally. A hollow ranging from 10 cm to 4 m deep forms more than 13 000 square meters of open-air exhibition space which is barely visible from the remote surrounding areas. The structure is built of reinforced concrete, with wood-paneled ‘nests’ (ticket and sou-venir booth, lavatory), authentic historical

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Estonian Road Museum


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Sõmeru, Estonia


Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke, Maarja Kask, Pelle-Sten Viiburg

Annual Award of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia 2010Concrete Building of the Year in Estonia: Special Prize 2010Estonian Union of Landscape Architects: Deed of the Year 2010

“Fast track” is a integral part of park infrastructure, it is a road and an instal-lation at the same time. It challenges the concept of infrastructure that only focuses on technical and functional aspects and tends to be ignorant to its surroundings. “Fast track” is an attempt to create intelli-gent infrastructure that is emotional and corresponds to the local context. It gives the user a different experience of moving and percieving the environment.

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installation “Fast track“

2012

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Nikola-Lenivets, Kaluga district, Russia

51 m

Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke, Maarja Kask

The aim of the project is to create a strong positive image by means corresponding to the large scale, focusing on poster-like visual generalization instead of decora-tive details. We tried to test the limits of a cheap and common building material and to achieve an easy to remember facade that would not disappear into the monoto-nous neighborhood of Tartu Annelinn.

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Prisma Shopping Centre


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Tartu, Estonia

14 000 m²

Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke, Kristiina Arusoo, Urmas Lõoke

The house is neatly overlooking a small lake in a south-eastern Estonian town. The setting is traditional: everybody still knows almost everybody in the communi-ty, people tend to talk in local dialect, and the measure of a good and valuable house is its durability and reliability. The client had two basic and definitive wishes: brick as the building material and spacious rooms inside. The house, facing the lake, took the form of an arch, accommodat-ing the entrance and a covered terrace beneath

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House in Antsla

2011 (completed)2009 (design)

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Sõmeru, Estonia

250 m²

Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke, Kristiina Arusoo

Baltic Brick and Roof Award 2013

In addition to solving the simple func-tional program, designing a new sports hall for the Estonian University of Life Sciences also implied considering some urban issues. The building and its land-scaping tries to integrate and organize the scattered campus of the university that has developed over time without no particular coherent plan. In addition, the roadside location on the very verge of the city makes the sports hall something of an entrance mark. Due to its location, one of the considerations was that one should be able to grasp the basic design idea at the first glimpse, upon driving by.As a solution, all corners of the cubic vol-ume are slightly stretched, and elevated ground forms a “cushion” for the slightly entrenched building. This facilitates inte-grating the building with landscape and lightens its overall appearance. Undulat-ing forms continuing towards the riverside encompass outdoor sports grounds and bicycle paths. The stretched-out corners create concave lines both in plan and elevation, creating unconventional spaces inside and varying optical effects outside.

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Sports Hall of the Estonian Uni-versity of Life Sciences


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Tartu, Estonia

4500 m²

Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke, Maarja Kask, Kristiina Arusoo, Pelle-Sten Viiburg, Jaan Port, Katrin Kaevats

Nomination for Mies van der Rohe Award 2011 Best Building of the Year in Tartu: Best New Building 2009Wooden building of the Year in Estonia: Best Facade 2009

Paide Sports Hall is connected to the existing school complex, yet differentiates from its successive building blocks as an independent object, thus activating the schoolyard and giving it new uses. Setting a large-scale building into the schoolyard, human scale has been taken into consid-eration as much as possible. Lowering the edges of the hall and overall facet-like shape serve to visually reduce the bulk of the building. The building‘s position on the plot is slightly shifted to enable inter-esting views from all sides.

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Paide Sports Hall


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Paide, Estonia

3700 m²

Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke, Maarja Kask, Jaan Port

The villa is built on the basement ruins of a historical fusherman’s farm but its exterior betrays nothing of it. Considering its predecessor, the clients of the present villa had quite opposing needs, habits and desires, asking for a house equalling a Ferrari. And this is what they got, a build-ing as the final point of the local road, in strikingly bold colour and a generous and dashing spatial layout. Location under the limestone cliff ensures a strong sense of privacy in the context of the settlement, and gives an exceptional proximity to the sea. The house is designed to be as transparent and airy as possible, allowing views to the surrounding nature from all around the house, but also through the house.

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House in Aseri

2008 (completed)

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Aseriaru, Estonia

300 m²

Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke, Maarja Kask, Kristiina Arusoo

The extension to Tartu Kesklinna School provides additional functions and opportu-nities to the historical building, doing this without overshadowing the old volume but rather as an intelligent accesory to it. The new volume avoids pretentiousness, interacting with the user as an equal partner, creating a diverse, friendly and light-hearted environment.. The building tries to activate the surroundings, both in terms of making active use of the courtyard with the outdoor auditorium as well as domesticating the previously un-derused park-like back yard. In a playful way, it is possible to move either over the building or beneath it, where the main en-trance lies. Blueberry pattern is enlivening the ascetic facade shell. The building is an attempt at being child-friendly without being childish.

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Kesklinna School Extension

2007 (completed)2005 (invited competition)

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Tartu, Estonia

2500 m²


Annual Architecture Award of the Architecture Endowment of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia 2008.

Best Building of the Year in Tartu: Best Extension/Reconstruction 2007

The apartment building on Aleksandri Str is located in an environment with many different spatial strata. The aim of the project has not been to blend with the sur-roundings, but to add one more layer. The layout of the building volume was defined by an outdated, restricting detailed plan, and a large water collector diagonally dissecting the plot, creating a restricted area in the middle of the building. As is characteristic of backyard buildings, it does not have a distinctive main façade. Multi-level apartments with higher living rooms conform to the relief of the plot.

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Apartment Building in Aleksandri street

2007 (completed)

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Tartu, Estonia

2000 m²


Best Building of the Year in Tartu: Best New Building 2007.

Small gallery conceived as a continuous strip of shelves with opening foldings in the areas needed.

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Jewelry Gallery in Old Town

2005

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Tallinn, Estonia

100 m²

Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke

Memorial for the victims of different addictions id conceived as a gully shaped as a human being. It is almost invisible sculpture in the same way as with addic-tions people tend to slowly start their way towards the sewage system.

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Monument “Notice the addiction”

2012 (competition, 1st prize)

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Tallinn, Estonia

2 m²

Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke, Maarja Kask,

The Riga State Art Museum needed a new exposition hall and better conditions for the researchers and archive. The extension to be built for European Capital of Culture in 2014 should activate local art scene in general. The design refrains from competing with the historical volume, fo-cusing rather on activating the park area, conceptualized as round-the-clock outdoor exposition and recreation grounds, re-freshing the museum’s imagological side as well as functional one. The conception is based on the history of the park and the new volume follows a row of old trees. The extension houses exposition hall for temporary exhibitions, museum shop, café, and children’s playground; all public functions open directly towards park, onto the newly formed art square. The square is also usable as outdoor arena. The solu-tion relates delicately with all the different historical layers of the park. The building, partly underground, conforms to the idea of passive house. The requested confer-ence room is located in the cupola of the historic building; historic main entrance has also been retained.

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Renovation and Extension of Lat-vian National Museum of Art

2010 (competition, 2nd prize)

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Riga, Latvia

6400 m²


he new city government will be located on a highly loaded spot in the renewing waterfront area, between the City Hall, Cultural Cauldron and Kalasadam. Thus the aim of the design was to participate in the surrounding environmental devel-opment in a broader sense. The building forms part of the coastal promenade, descending smoothly towards water. In a continuous spatial flow, the plateau on top of the building will turn into public space as well, in addition to a system of open public spaces of different characteristics around the building.The building volume is as compact as possible, allowing free organization of the internal space and helping to save energy. Atriums flow through the whole interior space in entire height, creating open, bright and airy interiors. The sun-shades on the facades allow to passively accu-mulate solar energy and protect against overheating.

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Tallinn City Hall

2009 (competition, honourable mention)

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Tallinn, Estonia

32 000 m²


The historical barge society building is a world of its own on the verge of land and water. The building and the floating pier, covered by a common roof, form a peculiar courtyard on the water with a covered ter-race around it. The shape of the building alludes to barges as well as to the perished beach house by Arnold Matteus that exist-ed on the same spot.

The complex consists of four simple volumes housing different functions. The biggest one houses the barge workshops, foyer, exposition facilities and children’s adventure grounds. The next one supports open-air exhibitions and events; second biggest volume is meant for vessels’ ground preparation, administration, library, seminar facilities, and archive. The smallest volume closest to the river is the sauna.

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Historical Barge Society Building

2010 (design)2009 (competition, 1st prize)

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Tartu, Estonia

2400 m²

Karli Luik,Ralf Lõoke, Maarja Kask, Pelle-Sten Viiburg

The business / retail complex was situated on a crucial and highly debated location on Tallinn renewing waterfront, formerly restricted area – so the issues to solve were architectural as well as urban. The huge plot and demanding program were divided into two separate volumes with contrasting appearances. The bigger one forms a diverse urban block of its own whereas the smaller one engages with the existing hotel next to it. In between, an undulating street is formed, the direc-tional axis of which continues logically the spatial developments of Rotermanni district nearby, enabling straight access from there to the waterfront.

The bigger volume houses retail and offices. Different levels on its perimeter form private, semi-private and public nest-like open areas, accessible from inside as well as from the street. In the lower floors shopping area, the classic atrium-type mall has been turned inside out, forming three stories of glazed shopping arcade along the whole perimeter. This prevents ignorant mute wall surfaces and confusing indoor spaces common for shopping centers, and ensures maximum indoor and outdoor space integration. The smaller volume, housing a night club and sports facilities, communicates its light-hearted content by a night black façade spangled with reflecting window sequins.

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Business & Retail Complex in Tallinn Harbor

2008 (design)2007 (invated competition, 1st prize)

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Tallinn, Estonia

70 000 m²

Karli Luik, Maarja Kask,Ralf Lõoke, Urmas Lõoke, Jaan Port, Katrin Kaevats, Villu Scheler, Pelle-Sten Viiburg, Martin Kinks, Anto Savi

The project does not see the bridge as an object in itself, but rather as a fluent and organic connection of two river banks – rather a bond of the banks than a stage of traffic. Apart from its function, the bridge is also part of quality public space, enlivening it with its own possibilities. The attraction is due to stretching of the plan, where different paths are separated according to the movement logic of pedes-trians and vehicles.

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Vehicle Bridge in Tartu

2005 (competition, 2nd prize)

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Tartu, Estonia


The purpose of the detailed plan is to ac-centuate the historical scale of the bastion and creating a contemporary, varied and pedestrian-friendly public space on and around it. On the base of the one-time moat, a pedestrian street with plaza-like expansions has been planned, which will bring out the bastion in its initial height. The building front, opening towards the pedestrian street, isolates it from the planned noisy traffic lane Põhjaväil. All new structures have been hidden into present and planned volumes of land-scape architecture – from one side into the body of bastion, from the other side into the ground sloping towards the Põhja Boulevard. The Rannavärava Street will be closed, a smaller part of it towards the Paks Margareeta tower will be built up, thus creating a pedestrian shortcut from the Old Town to the top of the bastion. Skoone bastion will again become part of the Old Town.

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Revitalisation of Skone Bastion

2005 (competition, 1st prize)2005-2008 (design)

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Tallinn, Estonia

95 000 m²

Karli Luik, Maarja Kask, Ralf Lõoke, Villu Scheler

Extremly badly exetued our first realized concept was to use the buildings in Tallinn Old town wrapped in as Christmas decoratoins.

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Christmas decorations

2003

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Tallinn, Estonia

Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke

The Flower Pavilion is part of the sur-rounding landform. Exterior space pro-nouncedly continued in the interior space. The content of the building was a frame of the surrounding landscape – more rapidly changing and reinterpreting concentrated artificial nature. The floor, which acquired a new form with each new exhibition, was an impor tant element in the original idea of the building. The floor was covered with limestone slabs on top of soil, which made it possible to unre strictedly model the aesthetics of the room and the content of the exhibition: a possibility that has been ruined in the current situation.This place formerly for exhibitions of flowers and agricultural products has gradually become a location for weddings, funerals and other gatherings. A building meant for the public has been re placed by a room for private celebrations. The floor of the Flower Pavilion, the walking paths and soil surface of which changed con stantly according to each particular exhibition, has been replaced with anony-mous ceramic slabs. An open and diverse environ ment has been replaced by a closed and uniform, drab world.Floorshow takes the floor as the original idea of the main exposition space of the exhibition hall and develops it further ac cording to the needs of today. Floorshow is a vertical dimension added to the surface of the floor – a chance to change the propor tions of the room in addition to varying the surface. Changing the volume changes the room as a whole and expands the possibilities for using the room from a gathering place to an exhibition hall of large dimensions, a blackbox or an audi-torium. The exterior appea rance of the building will not change and the original identity will be amplified in a way that spatially offers more possibilities.

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Exhibiton at the Tallinn Architec-ture Biennale “Floorshow”

2013

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Tallinn, Estonia

Maarja Kask, Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke, Helin Kukk, Petr Laska

Small private residence on a site full of pine trees. The house tries to adapt to the environment, deforming itself according to the existing trees. Shiny mirrorlike exterior helps as a second level of disguise.

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Private House in Nõmme

2011 (project)currently under construction

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Tallinn, Estonia

250 m²

Karli Luik, Maarja Kask, Ralf Lõoke, Kristii-na Arusoo, Pelle-Sten Viiburg

The main lobby of he clinic located on top of the cancer treatment machinery is sterile, very hostile with inward facing windows that make the patient entering the house very wulnarable and scared.New wooden intimate space is concieved that works as a hideaway and a healing sculpture. It has special lamp installed on the top that can provide light therapy sessions and area to lie down and feel safe and hopeful towards the future.

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Art object for New Clinic

2014 (competition)

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Tartu, Estonia

5 m²

Karli Luik

Competition entry aims the future gate-way very much human-scale environ-ment. In contrast of usual iconic buildings the terminal aims of creating a continous environment. It is also using local mate-rials (wood, limestone) and patterns to create the local Estonian identity to be understood by people arriving to Estonia through this new gateway.

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Ülemiste Transportation Terminal

2014 (competition)

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Tallinn, Estonia

1900 m²

Karli Luik, Johan Tali, Sille Pihlak, Siim Tuksam

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