Kangas
Competition Entry, Shared 3rd Prize, Jyväskylä Kangas Area Ideas Competition, 2011
Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
Scale & program: 292 000 sqm, a new pedestrian friendly city neighborhood for 4200 residents and business spaces for 1600 people
Ideas: Ecological urban life, spaces for new types of business, incorporating an old paper factory into the city fabric
Team: Sanna Karppinen, Merja Kiviranta, Juho Manka

Life Unseen
Competition entry, NYC Aids Memorial Park Design Competition, 2012
Organizers: Architizer, Architectural Record and AIDS Memorial Park
Location: Greenwich Village, NYC, NY

Mieluisa Tampere - Welcome Tampere
Interactive urban design project, 2011-2012, Mieluisa Tampere
Location: Tampere, Finland
Sponsors: National Council for Architecture, Tampere Architecture Week, Creative Tampere
Content: Ideas about the future of the city of Tampere
Ideas: Proactive urban planning, citizens in charge. What would the city be like if you got to choose?

Onko totta? - Is This for Real?
Video installation, 2011
Client: Tampere Art Museum - 80th Anniversary Jubilee Exhibition
Content: Visions on the future of the city of Tampere
Ideas: City as a fun, open and everchanging platform for new ideas
Collaborators: Tilanne

Reflections
Competition Entry, Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial Competition, 2010
Location: Atlantic City, NJ, USA
Program: Holocaust memorial
Ideas: A teardrop shaped oasis amidst the bustling boardwalk - an uplifting, serene place for reflection
Structure: Polished stainless steel plates on welded on a steel structure, wooden benches

Kaaret
Competition Entry, Upper Category (Top 20 of 178), Aurajoki River Pavilion Competition, 2010
Location: Turku, Finland
Program: Temporary, collapsible river pavilion for Turku 2011 - European Capital of Culture -festivities

Green Cycles
Competition Entry, Pandora Park Community Garden - Green Shed Competition, 2010
Location: Vancouver, Canada

Gowanus Fan
Competition Entry (Top 20), Lavender Lake Art Factory Competition, 2009
Location: Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
Program: Art Factory - Artist studios, labs, offices, live/work residences, gallery and a public park

Waves
Competition Entry, High Bridge Bronx - Building cultural Infrastructure Competition, 2009
Location: Bronx, NY
Program: Art center and a public park/pedestrian connection upon an old bridge

Dingbat Evolution
Competition Entry, Los Angeles Forum - Dingbat 2.0, 2010
Location: Palms, LA, CA
Program: New Dingbat concept for the 21st Century
Ideas&Themes: Energy efficiency in urban scale and building scale, ecological living in LA suburbs

Lamminrahka
Competition Entry, Lamminrahka Open Ideas Competition, 2008
Location: Kangasala, Finland
Scale: 400 000 sqm

Ratakuilu
M.Sc.(Arch) Thesis project, Tampere University of Technology, 2007
Grade: 5/5
Location: Helsinki, Finland

Helsinki Central Library
Lentokatu.blogspot.com project, 2008 - "Ideas for urban spaces"
Location: Helsinki, Finland

Pop Polis
Pop Culture Center to the Prague Old Railway Station Area
Student project, 2006
Location: Prague, Czech Republic

Kruunu
Special Housing
Student Project, 2005
Location: Tampere, Finland

Folly
Museum
Student Project, 2004
Location: Tampere, Finland

Solu
Interior Design - "New life for a student apartment"
Student Project, 2005

KMFDA
Student Competition Entry (Honourable Mention), 2002
Location: Velkua, Finland