series "Macrorayon"

In the series “Macrorayon”, Kadarik and Tüür follow up on the ongoing debate about the future developments of socialist housing blocks using Lasnamäe in Tallinn, Estonia as a case study. Using digital collage and high-end rendering aesthetics borrowed from commercial architecture they render out speculative futures of the utopias realized in the Soviet time for free plan districts. The dramatic scenery illustrates the blocks as self-sufficient local macro-habitats. The storyboard is woven together with global political, societal and environmental realities, to provoke discussion on the potential fate of Eastern European widespread modernist housing districts in relation to a wider geopolitical context.