Anna Juliana Pajulo SELECTED WORKS
Selected works
Resume Professional work Projects
Tampere Museum of Art Dalsbruk Artist and Scholar residences Seattle Community College Center for Food and Culture Kotisatama - the characteristics and possibilities of floating homes
Other works
Architecture in Photography Furniture Design Studio
Contact
CURRICULUM VITAE
Anna Juliana Pajulo | M. SC.Arch. +358 40 835 0827 anna.pajulo@gmail.com Puutarhakatu 8 c 9 33210 Tampere, Finland
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December 20th 1988 in Joensuu, Finland
MATRICULATION EXAM
Tampereen yhteiskoulun lukio Eximia cum laude approbatur Spring 2007
Education
Tampere University of Technology Tampere, Finland Bachelor of Science in Architecture December 2010 Master of Architecture June 2015
Experience
Arkkitehtitoimisto Neva Oy Tampere, Finland Design staff. Both full-time and part-time work on a variety of projects, ranging from concept design and visualizations to permit and work drawings on large scale renovations, private residences, housing design and several competitions. May 2012- current
University of Washington Seattle, Washington, USA Graduate level studies on the Valle Scholarship Academic year 2013/2014 Erling Christoffersen Master Studio Seattle, Washington, USA Furniture design studio with the aim to design and fabricate a piece of furniture. Particular attention was given to innovative uses of different materials’ characteristics and connections. Winter 2014
Tampere City Planning Department Tampere, Finland Architect intern. General zoning projects as well as a full inventory and analysis of the current building stock in the Uusikylä, Ruotula and Irjala residential areas. Summer 2011
Pirkanmaa Hospital District Tampere, Finland Project assistant. Ideation on innovative layouts for the new building for Tampere University Hospital to improve the working conditions of the staff, to reduce the risk of post-operative complications and to speed up the patients’ recovery through architectural solutions. Summer 2010
The Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden Master level studies in Performative Design Studio. A series of experimental design studios with the focus on understanding advanced geometry and modeling in relation to digital fabrication as well as architectural and structural aspects of design. Academic year 2010/2011
Scholarships
Positions of Trust
Tampere University of Technology Valle Scholarship for the Nordic Exchange Program at the University of Washington Academic year 2013/2014 NordPlus Scholarship for studies at the Royal Institute of Technology Academic year 2010/2011 Idman Institution scholarship Fall 2007
Proficiency
Tampere University of Technology Student Union International Tutor Academic year 2011/2012 Tutor Academic year 2009/2010 Architecture Student Organization Member of the Board Academic year 2008/2009
Language skills
High ArchiCAD, Artlantis, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator Medium High Revit, SketchUp, Rhinoceros Medium Maya, 3Ds Max, AutoCAD, Grasshopper
Finnish first language English fluent Swedish fluent French good
Professional work
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Kรถkar municipality Kรถkar, Finnish Archipelago private residence Neva Architects project architect 2015
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N/A Helsinki, Finland competition/cultural Neva Architects project architect 2014
Aalto Pekola apartments client: location: type: firm: position: year:
TOAS Tampere Student Housing Organization Tampere, Finland renovation of old factory dorms by Alvar Aalto Neva Architects design staff 2012
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N/A Tampere, Finland competition/housing Neva Architects design staff 2012
Tampere Museum of Art Tampere, Finland 2012
This project provides new exhibition spaces for three museums in Tampere: Tampere Museum of Art, Sara Hilden Museum and the Moomin Museum. The site is a currently underutilized large public square located in a historically delicate urban environment in the city center of Tampere. The goal for the project is to connect the proposed extension with the surrounding urban structure as well as existing spaces for the Tampere Museum of Art located on the site. The old museum is protected by code, so any major changes to the building are prohibited. The design draws inspiration from the famous moomin characters created by the Finnish children’s book author Tove Jansson. The design limits the visible structures to the minimum to preserve the existing public square, even further defining the space. Three softly sloping, cone-like structures push through the ground layer, each containing a single function that requires either daylight or street level access, i.e. the main entrance, the museum cafe and the administrative spaces. The exhibition spaces themselves are located underground, connected to the existing museum. Instead of museumspecific galleries, the museums share one large space that can easily adapt to house exhibitions of various sizes and scales. Only the Moomin museum has its own space, since their exhibition is permanent. The spatiality is concentrated in one location, but shared by two spaces. The entrance and the main exhibition hall are both located in and underneath the largest cone. These two spaces, divided by a sloping wall, are simultaneously connected and separated, visually and physically. The main structures are site-cast, reinforced colored concrete. On the interior the walls function as a neutral backdrop for the art, while on the outside they compliment the strong architecture, allowing the building to both blend in and stand out.
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Below street level, the main floor houses the exhibition spaces for all three museums, the archives, auditorium and workshop spaces, connecting the existing galleries with the extension from underground. The open floor plan adapts to a large variety of setups for art installations of different type and scale. The cone structures extend down from above the ground, creating free-form, high ceiling gallery spaces lit by indirect daylight.
Below the main floor is an underground garage, shared by the museum visitors and the local music academy across the street.
The spaces above ground level are opened to different directions depending on the daylight and the views they call for. The main entrance opens north-east, giving the entering visitors a view of the old museum and providing the gallery spaces below with indirect daylight. The cafe faces the Pyynikki square and the music academy across the street, interacting with the street level and the people passing by. Lastly, the administrative spaces open towards the historical Amuri block and the more quiet street Puutarhakatu, providing indirect daylight and a more secluded entrance for the staff.
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Dalsbruk artist and scholar residences Dalsbruk, Finland 2013
The old ironworks community of Dalsbruk, located in the south-western part of Finnish Archipelago is currently undergoing a major change. The factory was sold and closed in 2010, leaving most of the local residents unemployed and the local businesses struggling to maintain activity. This project is a part of a larger scheme to rejuvenate the Dalsbruk commune with a series of adaptive reuse proposals for the existing historical and/or abandoned buildings in the area. This design re-adapts a group of 12 coal ovens into small short-term retreats for artists and researchers. The coal ovens, part of the original ironworks complex, date back to the 18th century and are built entirely of bricks made of the leftover slag from the smelting process. They currently stand empty on the site. The retreats would attract people from all around the country that would draw inspiration from the environment, benefit from the quiet, secluded atmosphere of the area as well as bring profits and livelihood to the local community. In this project, roughly a half of the coal ovens remain in their original condition to preserve the historical appearance. The rest are carefully renovated into residences, preserving and restoring as much of the original structure as possible. The layout of a single unit is extremely simple, The open living space can flexibly be used for different purposes, with the more private spaces grouped together against the back wall. Each unit has also a covered entrance and a small patio, where the large glass doors of the living space open. The materials reflect the ones used in the original structures: natural, light-colored wood and tar-treated wood. A community garden is placed south of the actual site, towards the waterfront. The garden is intended for the use of both local residents as well as the visiting scholars.
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Hiiliuunin holvikatto lisäeristetään ulkopuolelta ja vuorataan tervatulla laudalla.
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The center for food and culture Seattle, WA 2013
The Center for Food and Culture is one of the six campus centers of the Central Area Public Scholars Institute in Seattle. The CAPSI campus master plan was a group design, consisting of six different programs located around the Central District that enrich and strengthen the urban life in their respective locations as well as form a The concept for the Culinary school is to bring the culinary program more visibly into the urban space and better connect the public with the art of the culinary culture. The programmatic layout for the school is simple. The building is divided into two wings, the academic and the application, by an atrium that also functions as the main circulation space. As the visitor moves through the building and up to the highest floor, they also journey through the culinary program’s curriculum. The atrium rises up to the second floor, where the glazed south facade opens views to the central district through the school’s orchard and herb garden. The main programmatic function i.e. the teaching kitchens and adjacent storage facilities, are located in the east wing, stacked and connected by a freight elevator for easy delivery and logistics. Each kitchen is accompanied by a food service area: a bakery, a cafe or a restaurant, all open to the public. These areas are all located along the main circulation by the atrium, but also facing Jackson St. and highly prominent in the building facade, The academic wing on the west side of the atrium provides a number of lecture rooms and auditoriums for the students and the public alike. Two main auditoriums each face the street on both sides of the building, intriguing the passersby and opening the culinary education to the public. The curriculum for the culinary school calls for knowledge in food cultivation as well as preparation, making the green spaces equally important to the program. This is portrayed both symbolically and physically by the green spaces as the starting and ending points of the journey through the school. The school can grow a large amount of their own fruits, vegetables and herbs in the orchard/herb garden on the second floor as well as the roof gardens and the green house on the fourth floor.
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The building fills the proposed lot, matching the depth of the retaining walls on each side to unify the currently fragmented street front. The form of the main atrium originates from the idea of sunlight cutting through the building and let some of the sunlight to penetrate the building.
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A courtyard with an herb garden and an orchard is located on the south side of the gap, above a ground floor auditorium that steps down to meet the ground on the south side of the site.
The kitchens are stacked for improved logistics and accompany each of the restaurants: The bakery on the street level, the cafe on the first floor and the restaurants on second and third floor. Kitchens are open to the dining rooms, where the customers can follow the process of the food getting prepared.
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Kotisatama: the characteristics and possibilities of floating homes Tampere, Finland 2015 Thesis project
My thesis project Kotisatama - the characteristics and possibilities of floating homes investigates the emergence, development and current state of floating homes on both global and national scale. Floating homes have only recently been introduced to Finland, which has no significant tradition in building on water. Because of this lack of tradition the regulations concerning floating homes are often insufficient. This has resulted in a monotonous selection of apartments and somewhat stiff design solutions on an urban scale. In order to both reinvent and maintain the building traditions and the culture of the floating home communities, the background research is used to define the existing forms and typologies and the differences between a floating home and conventional housing. These idiosyncrasies are then considered in examining the potential of floating living in both urban design and housing design. The conclusions based on the research are brought to life in a more general design scheme that combines the modern building techniques and urban development issues with the traditions of living on water. The thesis presents one possible approach to designing floating homes to serve a basis on general design guides for floating homes in Finland. The typologies and idiosyncrasies are applied in the design in the form of e.g. prefabricated apartment modules and raw space design. The proposal consists of several, concept-level variations on a single module, creating a selection of apartments of different sizes and qualities. The variations are comprised as combination of three main factors (programmatic layout, number of floors and cross section). The apartment modules are designed to adapt with the residents’ life cycle and can be easily converted to different uses such as work space, office or even a summer house.
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The design’s key is a prefabricated, “raw” apartment module, where only the bathroom is built in and ready. The module fits within the maximum limits of road transportation and can hence be fully built in advance and easily transported to even more challenging sites. Aside from the bathroom, the residents can design the rest of the layout as they please. However, as the number of resulting layouts is unlimited, the process is for clarity’s sake presented through three consecutive selections.
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The result is a customized, cost-effectively and efficiently produced floating home that fits the needs of the resident. The layout can also adapt to different programmatic layouts, depending on the changing needs of the current and future residents.1
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To limit the costs and ease the pre-fabrication process, the size and location of windows and other openings is limited to specific areas on the building mass. The shapes or sizes of the openings are not fixed, and the appointed areas can even be entirely glazed if desired.
The main openings are on opposite ends of the building mass, facing the water and the access pier. The secondary openings are along the long sides of the building, slightly misaligned to maintain privacy and avoid direct views from one building to the next.
Like the apartment module, the floating platform is prefabricated. All water, sewage, electrical and heating equipment can be installed in the platform, and later on accessed through maintenance hatches in the floor. The building is connected to the water, sewage and electrical lines by a single flexible connection. Additionally solar panels are installed
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This layout variation is based on a single storage unit that spans th entire length of the apartment, containing all necessary closets and shelf space for the living area, the kitchen cabinets, a work area etc. This leaves the majority of the plan open and free of fixed furniture, allowing the space to be furnished and utilized in a number of ways.
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Architecture in photography Seattle, WA 2013
Architecture in Photography - course aims to provide basic skills in manual black and white photography, film developing and printing as well as an understanding of architectural photography. The course, taught by the recognized architectural photographer John Stamets, explored the history and development of photography as well as the technical aspects of manual photography: aperture, shutter speed, depth of field, perspective correction, film sensitivity etc. After the students had gained a sufficient level of understanding of the camera, they were given weekly assignments learning different composition and lighting techniques. Lastly, each student picked a building of choice and photographed it applying the techniques learned earlier. A full architectural series of developed and printed photos on the building of choice, including all relevant elevations, a detail shot and a general perspective, was the final assignment for the course. Rather than the final project, these photos portray the variety of photos from the weekly assignments, of different spaces and scales, different lighting conditions and compositions.
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Furniture design studio Seattle, WA 2014
The furniture studio in winter 2014 had the privilege of learning from Erling Christoffersen, the renowned Danish furniture designer and professor of the Danish Institute for Study Abroad. In the studio, students designed and built a piece of furniture of their choice. My project was Lucy, a slim but sturdy dining chair. This chair was designed to be easily disassembled, fit in a box and shipped abroad, as that was my intent to do after my studies at the University of Washington ended. The profile of the chair is thin, simple and minimalistic. The seat is solid cherry, CNC-routed to shape to fit the contours of the body. The legs, made on 1/8” blackened steel rod, attach to the seat like a clamp. Utilizing the steel’s ductility, the joint relies on the tension formed between the two v-shaped frames to hold the leg in place. No additional fasteners are needed. In the spring quarter I ended up making Lucy a companion, taking advantage of everything I learned in the furniture studio and the techniques I used. The result was Ernest, a simple cherry and stainless steel side table that, like Lucy, can be easily disassembled and shipped abroad if needed. Ernest’s leg frame structure is more simple than Lucy’s and consists of two sets of two pieces. The pieces attach to each other with tabs and slots, forming a rectangular frame. The frame has to be bent outwards to fit into the table top, clamping tightly into the grooves in the bottom of the top.
contact
Anna Juliana Pajulo +358 40 835 0827 anna.pajulo@gmail.com Puutarhakatu 8 c 9 33210 Tampere, Finland