Elektrilevi Pattern Building
In spring 2022 EKA PAKK and Elektrilevi started a cooperation project to develop a modular, factory-produced, circular economy supporting wooden building, using the 369 Pattern Buildings (in Estonian, Mustermaja 369) design system developed and made publicly available by EKA. The construction of the training center was completed at the end of 2023.
Projekti executor: Pattern Buildings research group
Partner: Elektrilevi OÜ
Period: 1.03.2022-31.12.2023
The Elektrilevi training centre building will be the first 100% modular, wooden, top architectural and technical quality training / educational building in Estonia. It will assembled from industrially produced components and can in the future be easily disassembled, maintained, expanded or moved if necessary – this is something completely new in design and construction. The building planned in the 369 Pattern Buildings system shows how school buildings of the future can be built in such a way that it would enrich the local community and not remain an administrative burden but rather keep in step with the needs of the customer.
For the Pattern Buildings design system developed at EKA, the cooperation with Elektrilevi means coming to a pilot project stage. According to Renee Puusepp, the head of the EKA Pattern Buildings research team, thanks to Elektrilevi, we’re all one step closer to a sustainable built environment that follows the basic principles of circular economy. “Patterned houses – ‘mustermajad’ in Estonian – are needed to interweave the design of buildings with their production and construction. Modular pattern houses are of higher quality, more environmentally friendly and more human-friendly than traditionally constructed buildings built on the site – and more affordable when properly applied,” explained Puusepp.
According to Maria Freimann and Juhan Kangilaski from WHAT IF consulting agency, partner of the cooperation project between EKA and Elektrilevi, the biggest stumbling block in today’s building design process is the huge amount of time required for design and construction and the unpredictable final cost of the project.“The pattern-customizable system of 369 Pattern Buildings offers a solution to both problems: creating a project from pre-designed elements helps to conveniently create buildings with different functionalities, while also monitoring the total cost of the project in real time. The 369 Pattern Building system is bringing change to the entire construction sector, making sense of the whole process of planning, designing and building buildings” say Freimann and Kangilaski.
Elektrilevi plans to open the new training center in the 2023-2024 academic year. The training center will be focussing primarily on the vocational training of electric grid employees, and thus also promoting the profession.
International development team for the new version of the Pattern Buildings 369: Florian Betat ja Marija Dambe (Nomad Architects), Eero Tuhkanen, Kristo Kalbe, Marc Fuzellier (Atelier Crescendo) ja Erik van Vliet (Practical Solutions).
As a result of this development project a new version called "3cycle" was launched and made available on Pattern Buildings platform.Some facts:
🚩 It took EstNor 5 months to produce modules, assemble and complete the building on the site
🚩it took us nearly 6 months to design the circular system
🚩it took 3 months to adapt the system for Elektrilevi building
