Housing Design

Sustainable Housing in Kiviruukki, Espoo 2026

The 2026 Housing Design Studio was organized in collaboration with the City of Espoo. Students developed proposals for Kiviruukki, a former industrial and warehouse area set to evolve into a new urban district for approximately 9,000 residents and 3,000 workers. The area aims to become a model for sustainable urban development, combining efficient land use, public transport and local services.

The studio investigated how the transition towards circularity could reshape housing design through the development of a model quarter. Each proposal focused on one or two themes identified in the preliminary urban plan: adaptability, biodiversity, mixed housing typologies, communality and circular construction.
Image: Esa Partanen
Image: Esa Partanen

Selected student works

First page of the work by Alicia González Nieto. Architectural presentation board showing courtyard housing render, site plan, elevations and 3D axonometric views.

Alicia González Nieto

Page of the work by Anniina Sorsa. Architectural sheet with site plan, facade patterns and a rendering of a block.

Anniina Sorsa

Page of the work by Antero Heino. Architectural board with site plan, concept sketches, section views and a night view of an apartment block.

Antero Heino

Page of the work by Arianna Puddu. Architectural site plan, section view, apartment typologies and diagrams of apartment layout configurations. Everything in green and shades of grey.

Arianna Puddu

Page of the work by Cornelia Möller. Housing design studio poster with site plans, colour-coded elevations, diagrams and a courtyard view with people and trees

Cornelia Möller

Architectural board for a collective housing project with site pla,n diagrams and a rainy street render with brown blocks. Page of the work by Daniel de Villa Montemayor.

Daniel de Villa Montemayor

Architecture board with site plan, text, diagrams in blue and a rendering of wooden housing and garden. Page of the work by Esa Partanen.

Esa Partanen

Architectural board of Co-Brick Block showing site plan, 3D diagrams and a street-level view of red brick housing. Page of the work by Francesco Quaini.

Francesco Quaini

Architectural board with grey site plan, diagram in bright blue and green and courtyard visualisation. A page from the work by Leonie Theubet.

Leonie Theubet

Architectural board showing site plan, colorful concept graphs and daylight and night views of a multi-storey timber-clad apartment block. A page from the work by Máximo Sagel Sánchez.

Máximo Sagel Sánchez

Architectural site plan with housing blocks in a green park, green and white diagrams and an axonometric view of a building on the right. A page from the work by Iiris Moisio.

Iiris Moisio

Architectural board with watercolor street view showing buildings, trees, and people, plus site plan and site section in grey, and black and white picture of a 3D model. Page from the work by Xingchen Wang.

Xingchen Wang

Architectural board showing a red and white housing block in context, with site plans and area tables. Page from the work by Yijia Zheng.

Yijia Zheng

Architectural board of an apartment block with garden, path and people, concept diagrams and site plan around it. Page from the work by Yukiha Asano.

Yukiha Asano

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