The sLender apartment building on Võistluse street 7 (Tallinn, Estonia) is a prototype of the sLender research, which studies the possibility of a non-residue construction, constructive intelligence and energy production within the building. The modular wooden apartment building embodies the ideas of reuse, low carbon footprint and the possibility of energy production. V7 building in central Tallinn proposes a one of a kind CLT structure. The whole building is spirally organised, making all apartments multilevel, high ceiling lofts. The facade of the building is proposed to have built in solar panels, making the energy concept PART of the overall geometry.

The sLender community apartment building includes previous scientific research, such as the use of waste materials (the waiting pavilion ELEMENTaarne from production waste, 2020-2021), the multifunctionality of the building’s archetypal elements (the application of the facade as a garden, evacuation and common space on the Datšavrapp prototype, 2022), parameter-based design (the maximum volume of a wooden building designed according to national construction standards in the exhibition “Houses which we need”, 2021), examples of the variability of design systems (annual student works at the Faculty of Architecture of the Estonian Academy of Arts) and sample projects of a community apartment building (student works of the REKrulli community apartment house, 2022).

Development team

Architects:
Sille Pihlak (PART)
Siim Tuksam (PART)