E18 Portrait - Landscape as a city - city as an island

Turku (FI) - Winner

Landscape as a city - city as an island

Associates: Louise Audurier (FR) – urbanist, Yevheniia Likhachova (UA) – architect urbanist, Philipp Steinbacher (DE) – landscape architect, Oksana Chebina (UA), Johan Rey (CO) – architects
Contributors: Melissa Soh (AU) – landscape architect, Prakhar Rawal (IN) –  environmentalist, Nithish Kini Ullal (IN) –  building engineer

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"For us, Re-sourcing begins with a change of perspective. Reading historical maps of Turku, we observed how the city was built “on top” of its archipelagic landscape, imposing a rigid urban grid onto a territory shaped by rock formations, water flows, and diverse biotopes. Natural systems were often straightened, buried, or treated as interruptions to urban order."