This is a project for the future plan of port of Helsinki south harbour and some architectural designs.
This project is carried out by a Japan-Finland cooperative team, including and Taishi Watanabe, Yrjö Sotamaa, Pentti Kareoja, Esa Vesmanen.
In the current cultural zone centered around Helsinki central station, smart city models using big data are being practiced. As a parallel model of this, we are proposing to use port of Helsinki south harbour, another historical center of Helsinki, as a model of "Health-Eco City" that utilizes the accumulation of Finnish design for about 100 years and abundant wood resources and technology.
The "Wood Belt", which is a series of multiple industries created by processing and utilizing Finnish birch and pine trees in various forms (infrastructure, ships, architecture, tools, biofuels, etc.), will be a showcase for Health ecology business based on Finnish forest industry.
Through this health ecology industry, we aim that Finland regains control of the design market and takes a leading position in the Baltic Sea culture.
This will be a new social landscape that expresses the national identity in port of Helsinki.