Hi! I’m a Helsinki-based architect focused on regenerative urbanism and ecological advocacy.

As a part of the You Tell Me Collective, I’m currently designing urban plans that protect old-growth forests. These so called shadow plans out of which our Stansvik plan is already published, provide decision-makers with alternative solutions to proposals that jeopardize valuable urban nature spaces. The project is titled Elonkirjon kaupunki (The Biodiversity City) and is funded by The Kone Foundation.

I also practice architectural design at Skammi architects, a studio focused on circular economy-driven housing solutions. This year, I’m teaching at the Estonian Academy of Arts and the Museum of Finnish Architecture on how to make more-than-human stakeholders visible in urban planning, drawing from an ongoing workshop series called River Assemblies which was first organised in Sheffield in 2023 as part of European Architectue Students Assembly (EASA Commons).

Education

Aalto University, Master Studies, Architecture, Helsinki, 2020–2023

École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville, Master Studies, Architecture, Paris, 2022

Aalto University, Bachelor of Science in Technology (architecture), Helsinki, 2016–2019

Workshops and events

Assembly of the River Müstjõe, Course at Estonian Academy of Art, Tallinn, Estonia 3.–8.6.2024

Caring Architecture, Fill This Space summer school, Museum of Finnish Architecture, 10.6.—14.6.2024

Assembly of the River sheaf, Workshop at European Architecture student assembly, Sheffield, UK 31.7.–13.8.2023

You Tell Me -Symposium, student-led seminar about climate crisis and architecture, Helsinki, Lapinlahden lähde, 2019

Exhibitions

Master’s thesis exhibition, Aalto university, 2023

The Assembly of the River Sheaf exhibition, Block project space, Sheffield, UK, August 2023

Buildings We Live In anti-advertisement campaign, Helsinki metro, You Tell Me Collective, 2020

Selected personal comissions

Villa koivikko, A summer house designed from recycled log frame and natural materials in Lapinlahti, 2024–

Extension to a 50s typehouse house, Helsinki, 2023

Antti’s oathouse, Shingle-roofed auxiliary building to a 19th-century farmstead in North Karelia, 2022

Terrace and summer kitchen for a villa, with Siiri Hänninen, Kangasala, 2020

Collaboration

Intento – a multi-usable exhibition structure, Somos S.U.R. x You Tell Me Collective, with Siiri Hänninen, Otso Jämsä and Maija Kovalainen, 2023

La métropolie de petits projects, participatory design studio course x OMJA at ENSA-PB, 2022

Publications

Talking Trash With an Architect And a Designer – What is it like to design with materials someone else has discarded, ARK-magazine, 2/2024

Urban Forest – an Object of Conflict or Care?, ARK-magazine, Forest, 4/2023

The Entangled City – From Urban Nature Conflicts Towards Care in More-than-human Worlds, Master Thesis with distinction, Aalto University, 2023

Recognising the interconnectedness of the world would lead to a polyphonic approach to urban planning, with Siiri Hänninen, Mustarinda magazine, 2023

Helsinki of Dreams -map and illustration, with Siiri Hänninen, Huuto kaupukiluonnon puolesta, 2022

”What does the world need most from the forest?” An event review of Hope for Wood -series curated by the architecture museum, ministry of the environment and You Tell Me collective, AU-magazine, 2021

Martikkalan vierasmaja – Suunnittelua pohjustava analyysi. Bachelor´s thesis, 2019, with distinction

Grants, awards, residencies

Kone Foundation, 2024

Residency at ZK/U Berlin, 2025

The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike), 2024

The Finnish Foundation for Nature Conservation, 2024

Master’s thesis award, Pro Helsinki foundation, 2023

Master’s thesis award, The city of Helsinki, 2023

The Department of Architecture, 2023

The Finnish Cultural Foundation, 2023

Mustarinda Residency, 2023

Finnish Changemaker of the year (You Tell Me), Ashoka foundation 2022