Name: Clarisse Leung
Track: Architecture
Studio: Methods of Analysis and Imagination
Year: MSc 3/4 / 2025
Type: Design project
Tutor: Willemijn Wilms Floet, Niels Tilanus, Willie Vogel
Description:
Tallinn’s medieval city wall, a UNESCO heritage site, is underused, serving mainly as a tourist attraction rather than a vibrant part of local life. This distances residents from their heritage, reducing the wall to a static relic. This project reimagines it as a living monument by extending its walkway system to connect a nearby school and an elderly club. Interventions create shared spaces for seniors and students to engage with the wall’s heritage, transforming it into a network of pathways and communal areas. The design promotes intergenerational connection and sustainable reuse, preserving cultural significance while enriching Tallinn’s urban landscape. It reverses fortification’s logic from division to connection. It asks — Can a wall built to separate become a path that connects?