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OUTSET<\/span>
The Power of Stench<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
Andra Aaloe<\/strong><\/p>\n

ESSAY<\/span>
Life on Mere (Urban) Air and Love (of the City)?<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
Liina-Kai Raivet<\/strong><\/p>\n

IN PRACTICE<\/span>
Titled<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
Madli Kaljuste<\/strong><\/p>\n

ESSAY<\/span>
Aerial\u00a0 Assamblages<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
Ella Prokkola<\/strong><\/p>\n

PROJECT<\/span>
The Cloud Forest<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/span>
Tallinn, EST. Sala Terrena, ConArte
Madli Kaljuste<\/strong><\/p>\n

ESSAY<\/span>
Controlled Environment<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
Frans Saraste<\/strong><\/p>\n

PROJECT<\/span>
How Does Your House Breathe? Helsingin Muurarimestari<\/a><\/span>
<\/strong>Helsinki, FIN. Avarrus
Leonhard Ma<\/strong><\/p>\n

INTERVIEW<\/span>
Eva Gusel. Vernacular Comfort<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
Roland Reemaa<\/strong><\/p>\n

PROJECT<\/span>
Vertikal Nydalen<\/a><\/span>
<\/strong>Oslo, Sn\u00f8hetta
Ott Alver<\/strong><\/p>\n

PROJECT<\/span>
Goldsmith Street. On Passivity<\/a><\/span>
<\/strong>Norwich, GBR. Mikhail Riches
Laura Linsi<\/strong><\/p>\n

RESEARCH<\/span>
On the trail of sketchy materials<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
Aist\u0117 Gaidilionyt\u0117, Kamil\u0117 Vasiliauskait\u0117<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AIR
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We humans have an intimate connection to air: not only does it surround us, but it also permeates us with every breath we take; it affects our well-being while we affect its composition. Every breath of air contains gases, organisms, and tiny volatile organic compounds, such as fungal spores, viruses, microbes, pollen, asbestos, and formaldehyde. The composition of air is a residue of plant life but also a product of human activity\u2014air quality has economic, political, environmental, and social dimensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Who gets to decide whose home will stink?\u2019 asks Andra Aaloe<\/strong> in the outset for this issue. Air and its composition concern every field of spatial design, both at the micro and macro levels. Air quality is directly affected by the strategic decisions of urban planners, such as those about the placement of water treatment plants and traffic arteries, but also those that concern building heights and the extent of built-up area. Lobbying and design work by landscape architects foster the creation of outdoor spaces that help to keep air breathable, especially in dense urban areas. The everlasting process of creating such outdoor spaces consists in multispecies collaboration, as described by Ella Prokkola<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we build and operate our buildings, we release substances and particles into the air. Insulating a building thoroughly from its environment helps to keep the heating and cooling-related energy consumption and hence its operational carbon footprint under control. But, as Frans Saraste<\/strong> notes, focusing narrowly on the building\u2019s energy efficiency leads to wasteful practices in the bigger picture, such as the use of short-lived composite materials\u2014insulating air bubbles are enclosed in toxic and non-biodegradable materials. \u2018In place of these multi-layered wall assemblies, many architects have started looking at monolithic assemblies,\u2019 writes Leonard Ma<\/strong> regarding a brick-walled apartment building recently completed in Helsinki that forgoes any additional insulation. This is but one example of learning from and reintroducing techniques of earlier architecture that used to deal with ecology more directly\u2014a practice that is the focus of the discussion between Roland Reemaa<\/strong> and Eva Gusel<\/strong>. The way in which air flows are controlled reveals how a built space relates to its surrounding environment. Hence, in this issue we ask: how does your house breathe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor-in-chief Laura Linsi, editor Madli Kaljuste
January, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ON THE COVER: Thermal imaging of spatial compression energy principle
PHOTO: Klemen Ilovar, 2023
DESIGN: Unt \/ Tammik<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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