“No Time To Waste” by Brasebin-Terrisse chosen as the winner of Installation Competition

The 7th Tallinn Architecture Biennale announces the winner of the Installation Programme Competition “For-This-Situation”. The 2-stage competition challenged emerging architects to develop creative designs for a temporary outdoor installation at Tallinn’s busiest local transportation hub – the Balti Jaam. The Pavilion will be located on the edge of the largely intact Tallinn Bastion Belt encircling Tallinn’s UNESCO-protected medieval Old Town.

Anhelina L. Starkova, architect and Head Curator of TAB 2024, led the Jury panel for the Installation Programme Competition, alongside Indrek Peil (EE) – architect Kavakava architects; Austris Mailītis (LV), architect & educator; Ann Kristiin Entson (EE) – architect & urban planner Tallinn Strategic Management Office; Simo Ilomets (EE) – engineer, lecturer TalTech. The jury has come to a decision, among more than 80 submissions from around the world, to move forward with the project that engages perfectly with the curatorial theme “For-This-Situation”.

The winning project, “No Time to Waste” by Elisabeth Terrisse de Botton (ES) and Matthieu Brasebin (FR), proposes an engagement with the proximate square at Tallinn Balti Jaam Station and offering alternative breakout spaces for the city inhabitants.

“No Time to Waste” focuses on the act of killing time and providing shelter by creating a structure that uses repurposed, reused resources but also makes the time worth spending while waiting. The pavilion features a series of walls that define a sequence of covered and permeable rooms that are open for future developments.

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Inspired by the gabion wall constructive system, lightweight steel cages that will be filled with leftover stones or rubbles will serve as external foundations for the pavilion. Moreover, variations in the density of the filling will allow certain transparency in some points of the wall. The structure of the roof is composed of a grid system made of primary beams and secondary battens.

From August to October 2024, a 1:1 fragment of “No Time to Waste” will be built at Balti Jaam, Tallinn’s busiest local transportation hub, and will inaugurate on October 11th, 2024 during Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2024 opening week, thereafter it will remain as a permanent installation.