TAGASIÜlemiste City is in constant development and the owners, thus, urgently needed to increase the parking area that could be gradually filled with buildings in the future. On the landscape architect’s initiative, the client’s desire to bring greenery to the parking lot turned into a temporary landscaping concept relying on non-standard seedlings from local nurseries left to grow on the fields. The idea was to give them a new lease of life so that after some years of maintenance and care, the strongest of them could be replanted in the new developments in Ülemiste City. In addition to trees, the greenery was complemented with taller plants (grasses and perennials) with also meadow grass seeds sown to get flowers to hover over the front of cars. The result was an unusually lush combination of plants in an otherwise monotonous parking lot. The solution considered the principles of recycling also in other materials – we used materials from on-site pavements and demolition waste. Some of the existing asphalt was preserved while the asphalt taken up in the construction of the leach fields was used for compositions on the green areas collecting water from the parking lot. The buffer areas of the parking spaces are mainly used for rainwater collection and this was also taken into account in the selection of plants. It is a temporary intermediate use and, in a sense, a test solution that the customer was happy to try out. Plans are already in place to start replanting some of the area next year.
Laureate for the Annual Award of the Estonian Association of Landscape Architects for Temporary Space 2025
Object info 
Landscape architecture
Grete Veskiväli-Dubov, Merilin Sasilo
(Punktiir)Team
Miina Pruuli (PlantsbyPruuli) Project Lead
Triin Jakobson (Infragate) Road designer
Roman Sokmann (Infragate) Completed
2024 Photos
Tuuli Pruuli 
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