The project proposes a carbon-neutral low-dense neighborhood organized around a large main square, connected public spaces and productive fields, directly connected with the Lake Tuusula. The Arcadia Neighborhood is a project developed for a community who wants to live in harmony with nature. It builds a modern system re-interpreting the ancient farm system, where people lived in community and in contact with nature, producing their own food. The housing blocks form a threshold between country houses, greenhouses and public parks. The cluster of low urban structures expose the qualities of both contexts. Through an experimental combination of interior and exterior spaces, Arcadia Neighborhood has the highest ambitions to build a sustainable lifestyle based on shared-production, shared-profit and shared-consumption. Arcadia embraces full-cycle resource management by proposing timber buildings, integrated water recycling management system and green energy system. The project is focused on creating a neighborhood for a community that operates on principles of resource efficient living, permaculture and multi-age community. The project is focused on creating community that operate on principles of resource efficient living, permaculture and multi-age community. The housing blocks mixed with the surrounded agricultural land propose a neighborhood for 200 people, while fulfilling their minimum food needs for a vegan diet . Through diverse housing typologies, each block offers residents a wide range of customization of housing typology and unit size. The houses can be stitched together with a collection of shared garden, generous rooftop greenhouses and sheltered atriums. These spaces form the collective platform to build and gather a shared, strong and sustainable community.
