Location
Sõmeru parish, Estonia
Client
Sõmeru parish
Size
2400 m2
Competition
2004, 1st prize
Completed
2010
Competition team
Maarja Kask, Ralf Lõoke
Design team
Maarja Kask, Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke, Kristiina Arusoo, Margit Argus
Awards
Annual Award of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia 2010
Estonian National Culture Award 2010
Wooden Building of the Year in Estonia: Best facade 2010
Sõmeru Community Centre combines parish administration, library and a club with a hall. The interior and exterior are intermingled, creating a park-like structure – cosy gardens as concentrated pieces of nature offer a counterpart to sparse density of the surrounding environment. The community centre is single-storeyed, undulating roofline is a result of varying heights of the rooms.
“For its decoration and roof shape, the building has been compared to a waving field. And indeed, the concept of Sõmeru Community Centre stems from a metaphor of a hay field.”
“What I dreamt and fantasised about a year or seven ago has now realised!”
