Imagining Otaniemi 13.4.

First Kristo Vesikansa told us about the history of Otaniemi, showing a wealth of interesting images. Now we know Otaniemi in the 1940ies was still mostly wood and some farm fields of the Otaniemi mansion. The campus of the then Helsinki University of Technology was a post-war effort, very much part of the general rebuilding, and also very much part of the initiative of the students and the student organisation. In fact the first edifices to be built were the student houses in the North. We saw a bunch of interesting architecture that is still part of Otaniemi - and then some bold proposals for the future. I'm putting some examples of the pictures with thanks to Kristo!

After the Otaniemi pictures there will be some pics from the drawing exercise we did with Anna K, drawing first a place that interests you, going through how you drew it and why, and then adding there something that would make the place a nice place you'd like to be in.














Anna-Sofia adding stuff to her picture