The Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2024, TAB 2024

The Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2024, TAB 2024(tab.ee), which will take place from 9 October to 1 December, 2024 (Opening Week: October 9th – 16th, 2024), has presented itsInstallation Programme Competition: "For-This-Situation".

With a submission deadline on May 15th, 2024, the Installation Competition (download the competition brief at this link: https://2024.tab.ee/competitions/vision-design-competition/) challenges participants to develop creative designs for a temporaryoutdoor installation at Tallinn's busiest local transportation hub – the Balti Jaam.The Pavilion is located on the edge of the largely intact Tallinn Bastion Belt, which encircles Tallinn’s UNESCO-protected medieval Old Town.

The winning proposal of the Installation Programme Competition will serve as a waiting area for the passengers of the local bus lines. During TAB 2024 a 1:1 fragment of the winning proposal will be built.The project should draw inspiration by the concept of standing still, an act of killing time and needing shelter.The Pavilion will focus on the contrasts of everyday life: happiness, disappointment, security or boredom as we wait for a message, a job interview or a gathering.

The Installation Programme Competition s withTAB 2024’s main theme “Resources for a Future”, which was conceived by the curatorial team Daniel A. Walser, Anhelina L. Starkova and Jaan Kuusemets, and delves into different principles of using our resources, in architecture, building materials or urban planning. “The For-This-Situation Pavilion” encourages participants to explore new ways of using repurposed, reused resources and use bio-based materials to create a durable installation.

Laura Linsi and Roland Reemaa, curators of the TAB 2024 Installation Programme Competition,explain their manifesto as follows:
“We arguably live in unprecedented times and yet we carry on with our lives. Between romanticised pasts and utopian futures, this Open Call explores the agile qualities of architecture – collaborative authorships, regenerative design and non-linear construction processes. Derived directly from the Latin phrase ad hoc, we seek alternative practices on how an architectural project can be planned, built, maintained and dismantled in the form of a public pavilion for today's needs and with today’s means.”

The TAB 2024 Installation Programme Competition invites architects to imagine a public infrastructure that reuses materials from a local timber manufacturer (Thermory), second-hand material handlers and potential collaborators from quarries, forestry, waste management departments to create a community space that prioritises people, sufficiency and joy.

For questions and further information about the competition brief, please contact info@tab.ee by 30 April 2024.