“No Time To Waste” by Brasebin Terrisse

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 Jam 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.

The winning proposal struck with clarity that suits perfectly into the current discourse about resources, construction processes and economy of means without excessive fuss. The design offers a rigorous and civic feel with playful content from unexpected materials, to phasing of construction and furniture for public use at a major Tallinn pedestrian junction. The proposal aligns well with the competition brief ‘In This Situation’ that asked for agile design approach according to needs and availabilities in given times.

-Roland Reemaa, Installation Competition “For This Situation” curator

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. 

Workshops focused on building and activating the pavilion will involve architecture and design students from the Estonian Academy of Arts.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.

The installation will remain in Balti Jaam until the next biennale.

Elisabeth Terrisse de Botton (ES) and Matthieu Brasebin (FR) are two architects based in Brussels (BE). They are interested in the production of space, focusing on its climatic, social, and cultural dimensions. Their practice intends to strengthen pre-existing opportunities with architecture as a mean of building and thinking.

They collaborate together since 2023, after winning Europan ‘17 first prize for their proposal “Earth, Wind and Water” in Makarska (HR). For the Concéntrico#10 festival, they collaborated with the team Make it Rain for the construction of a climatic pavilion.

Elisabeth Terrisse de Botton (Barcelona*1991) graduated with honors in 2017 from Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ES). Since 2015, she collaborated in different architecture practices in Barcelona (ES), Lausanne (CH), and Brussels (BE), such as Arquitectura-G, Baukunst, Chevalier Masson and Traumnovelle. She participated in several design reviews as a guest critic for first and second year architecture studios at EPFL (CH) and LaCambre (BE). 

Matthieu Brasebin (Paris*1996) graduated with his master’s degree in 2020 from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH) after his bachelor’s studies in Paris-Malaquais (FR) and an exchange year at Université de Montréal (CA). Since 2018, he has collaborated in several architecture offices in Montréal (CA), Lausanne (CH), Copenhagen (DK), and Brussels (BE), such as noAarchitecten and Atelier Kanal. 

Photo by Gina Surià Gúdel

Exhibition of the 2nd stage runner ups is open at the Estonian Architecture Museum.

PARTNERS

Main partners: Thermory, Tallinn City & Tallinn Urban Planning Department

Additional partners: Paljassaare Waste Center, HM Stone Co