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FINNOO MARINA CITY – INTERNATIONAL IDEAS COMPETITION EVALUATION PROTOCOL The Finnoo area seen from the north. The Finnoo Marina City competition area is shown at the top of the picture. 2 Table of contents 1 COMPETITION ARRANGEMENTS 4 1.1 Organiser, nature and purpose of the competition 4 1.2 Eligibility 4 1.3 Panel 4 1.4 Rules of the competition and approval of the competition programme 4 1.5 Progress of the competition 4 1.6 Received proposals 5 2 COMPETITION ASSIGNMENT 5 2.1 Background 5 2.2 Competition area 5 2.3 Objectives of the competition 5 2.4 Planning instructions 6 2.5 Evaluation criteria 7 3. OVERALL EVALUATION OF THE PROPOSALS 8 3.1 General 8 3.2 A connection north toward the metro centre 8 3.3 Overall idea – the future shoreline of Finnoo 8 3.4 Marina arrangements 10 3.5 Services, sea centre 10 3.6 Traffic and parking 11 3.7 Ecology and sustainable development 11 3.8 Wetland bird habitat and green belt connections 12 3.9 Reclamation and excavation 12 3.10 Floating structures and columns 12 3.11 Feasibility 12 3.12 Relation to islands offshore and nearby waters 13 4. CLASSIFICATION OF PROPOSALS 14 5. PROPOSAL-SPECIFIC EVALUATIONS 16 6. RESULTS OF THE COMPETITION 78 6.1 Prizes and redemptions 78 6.2 Honorary mentions 78 6.3 The panel’s recommendations concerning further measures and instructions for further development 78 6.4 Signing of evaluation protocol 79 6.5 Opening of envelopes 80 3 1 Competition arrangements 1.1 ORGANISER, NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE COMPETITION Tiina Elo, Espoo City Planning Committee The city of Espoo organised an open international Ideas Jaana Leppäkorpi, Espoo City Planning Committee Competition for Finnoo Marina City. Torsti Hokkanen, Project Director Espoo is the second largest city in Finland with di- Ossi Keränen, City Planning Manager verse services and pleasant living environments – there Harri Hietanen, Master Planning Manager are over 250,000 inhabitants. The new district of Finnoo Seppo Suntio, Architect, Master Planning is centrally located in the urban area of Southern Espoo Marianne Kaunio, Project Architect of Greater by the seashore. The area is currently uninhabited, and Espoonlahti the nature of the area is going to change from a harbour, Marja Axelsson, Staff Architect, City Planning warehousing and industrial area into a unique, urban Mervi Hokkanen, Landscape Architect, City Planning living environment whose central part is the largest ma- Tapani Kortelainen, Outdoor and Recreation Manager, rina in Espoo. The new urban and marine southern part Fishing and Hunting, City of Espoo of Finnoo, the competition area, is called Finnoonsatama (Finnoo Marina City). The purpose of the competition was Members of the panel appointed by the SAFA: to find innovative and inspiring models for the further Antti Pirhonen, Architect SAFA planning and design of the urban structure of the shore- Katariina Sewón, Architect SAFA line blocks and marina of Finnoo. In particular, the extent The chairman of the panel was Jukka Mäkelä and the and volume of construction by the shore and over water secretary of the panel was architect Anri Linden SAFA. and different construction methods were to be explored in such a way that the natural and environmental values The panel also heard, among others, the following ex- of the adjacent major birdlife sanctuary and other sur- perts: roundings are not compromised. The reformed marina is Katriina Rosengren, ecology and sustainable to be integrated into the city and serve as a lively, year- development, WSP Finland Oy round living space for boaters and residents alike. Finnoo Reetta Putkonen, traffic and parking, WSP Finland Oy Marina is envisaged to become the centre of maritime Es- Feasibility and costs, Ramboll Finland Oy poo and Finnoo its unique pulse. The marina will be de- Lennart Pettersson, sports and exercise services, harbour veloped into a pedestrian and cycle-friendly neighbour- affairs hood, an important part of the walking and cycling route Kalevi Hiironniemi, Senior Environmental Inspector, spanning the southern Espoo shoreline (Rantaraitti). Environment Centre of the City of Espoo The competition sought to integrate the Finnoo Marina area with the metro centre to the north of Finnoo and the The secretary or the experts were not allowed to partici- Fortum power plant bordering the site. The intention was pate in decision-making, nor were they entitled to partici- also to study how the massive power plant structure can pate in the competition. be integrated into the landscape and existing city fabric. The whole Finnoo area is to be designed into an ener- 1.4 RULES OF THE COMPETITION AND APPROVAL OF gy-efficient and carbon-neutral district, and that should THE COMPETITION PROGRAMME also be evident in the solutions for Finnoo Marina City. The competition programme, the competition rules of 1.2 ELIGIBILITY SAFA (www.safa.fi), and the recommendations of ACE were followed in the competition. The competition pro- The competition was open to all citizens of the Europe- gramme and annexes had been approved by the organis- an Union and also to citizens of countries subject to its ers, the panel and the competition committee. The compe- procurement legislation under current laws and conven- tition programme was published in Finnish and English. tions. The competitors were encouraged to form multi- The proposals had to be submitted in English. disciplinary teams in order to carry out the competition assignment in a multi-dimensional way. At least one par- 1.5 PROGRESS OF THE COMPETITION ticipant in each competition team had to be authorised to practise professionally as an architect or landscape archi- The competition programme and its annexes were avail- tect in their country of residence. able for downloading from the competition’s website from 17 January 2011 onwards. In addition, the competi- 1.3 PANEL tion programme was available from SAFA. The competi- tion ended on 4 June 2012. Members of the panel appointed by the competition The competitors were allowed to ask for further clari- organiser: fications and information regarding the competition. The Jukka Mäkelä, Mayor of Espoo, Chairman of the Panel questions had to be submitted in writing either in Finn- Olavi Louko, Director of Technical and Environment ish or English and using a pseudonym, and they had to be Services for the City of Espoo sent to the panel by 4 May 2012. Several questions were Markku Markkula, Chairman of Espoo City Planning submitted, and they were answered on the website in Committee about a week from their arrival. 4 1.6 RECEIVED PROPOSALS The future population of the entire Finnoo area is ex- pected to be 14,000–16,000. In the competition, area some A total of 62 proposals were received by the deadline. All 1,500–6,000 residents were studied. proposals qualified for evaluation. 2.2 COMPETITION AREA 2 Competition assignment The competition area consisted of the Finnoo harbour area and its immediate surroundings between the Mat- inkylä and Hyljelahti areas. The competition area was 2.1 BACKGROUND divided into the actual competition area (about 106 ha) and the review area (about 51 ha). It was also possible to Along with the neighbouring Mårtensby, Finno is the old- propose design solutions for the review area concerning est inhabited village on the southern coast of Espoo. The traffic and connections, boat storage, parking, design of earliest settlements probably date back to the 12th cen- the shoreline and the role of the power plant in the area tury, or even earlier. In the 17th century the whole village that would justify the connectivity of the urban structure became part of a large farm, the Finno Farm and Stables. of the competition area to its surroundings. Later the farm was known as Finno (or Finnoo) Manor. The main design focus was on the competition area. All the manor buildings have since been demolished. The It consisted of the present Suomenoja Marina south of village stretched all the way from the current Länsiväylä Hylkeenpyytäjäntie, the recreational area of Hyljeouri motorway to the current Finnoo Marina. Ryssjeholmen and the islands of Pirisaari and Ryssjeholmen in front of was also part of the Finno Village. The villas in Ryssjehol- the marina. The islands are among the most northern is- men represent the oldest known settlement on the island lands of Espoo’s inner archipelago. Suomenoja Marina is and are related to the heyday of villa culture in the early the largest marina in Espoo with around 1,000 berths and 20th century. In the 1960s, a waste water treatment plant 1,200 winter storage spaces. was built in the area, and Finnoviken was dammed into Actions could also be proposed for the review area. The a sedimentation bowl. The power plant started operating area consists of Fortum’s power plant site, the connecting in the 1970s. Water areas have been reclaimed south of area towards the centre of Finnoo, the back of Nuottalah- the power plant and water treatment plant for use as a ti east of the marina and the mouth of the Finnobäcken winter storage area for the boats of the extensive marina. stream. In the impact area of the Finnobäcken stream, the The characteristic features of Finnoo today are the role of the competition area in the Espoo coastline and largest marina in Espoo with its extensive winter stor- cityscape was to be considered. The impact area consist- age fields, the waste water treatment plant with its sedi- ed of connections southward to the inner archipelago of mentation basin turned into a bird sanctuary and the sur- Espoo and to the role of the competition area more exten- rounding wetlands, as well as the Fortum heat and power sively along the Espoo coastline.

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