Muutarha installation w/ Marco Casagrande. Soundscape Sniedze Prauliņa. KASTE / DAG / DEW ONOMA exhibition at Fiskars Art & Design Biennale 2026.
Kuva: Justus Hirvi

Kuva: Justus Hirvi

Photo: Antti-Jussi Kaikuru

Photo: Antti-Jussi Kaikuru

Weathered canvases as part of my Interseptio installation. KASTE / DAG / DEW ONOMA exhibition at Fiskars Art & Design Biennale 2026.
Kuva: Justus Hirvi

Landscape installation and stool at Design March festival in Reykjavik 2017. Co-work with Made by CHOICE, Matti Ahopelto and Mikko Pykäri.

Copper patinations in-between acoustical windows at music restaurant G Livelab in Helsinki.

Patinated copper walls at G Livelab.

Design of a glass stage at G Livelab, in co-operation with Casagrande Laboratory.

Floating greens at digi agency Nosto’s office in Helsinki

Design and construction of a moss wall and green decorations at finnish design and concept store PRE and Cargo Cafe in Helsinki city centre 2016.

Design and construction of green decorations at G Livelab music restaurant in Helsinki city centre 2015-17.

Wasteland plants potted in-between acoustical windows at music restaurant G Livelab in Helsinki. Design and construction of living green decorations 2015-17.

Design for Helsinki World Design Capital year’s Flower Cubes in the city centre, 2012.

Design and construction of Hyperspeed Picnic Boxes in Suvilahti Culture Centre area, 2013. Co-work with YEAH HELSINKI art collective.

Design of G livelab’s entrance lights in co-operation with lighting designer Teemu Nurmelin, Helsinki 2016.

Visuals for a conceptual landscape plan

Landscape design and visuals combining oil colours and digital painting for a competition entry for Ylivieska church in co-operation with Casagrande Laboratory, 2017.

Visualisation for Kyläseppä-Storhemt area recreation.
Nomaji Landscape architects Ltd / Assisting landscape architect, illustrator

Visualisation with crayons and digital painting, plan for Katajanokanlaituri rooftop garden.
Nomaji Landscape architects Ltd / Illustrator

Visuals and landscape design for a competition entry for Tampere Art Museum in co-operation with Anssi Lauttia, Valter Rutanen and Linda Wicksten, 2017.

Concept and landscape design along with visual identity experiments for Naissaari island, City of Jyväskylä 2015.

Lighting concept for Naissaari island 2015.

Experimenting the acoustic landscape of a sacred forest.

Sketches for Tampere Eteläpuisto lake front.
Hemgård Landscape Architecture Oy / Assisting landscape architect

Concept plan for a forest terrace, a co-operation project

Competition entry and visuals for exhibition pavilion in Aurajoki, European Capitals of Culture Turku in 2016. Co-work with Lennart Lang.

Garden design concept and visuals for a private house in Espoo, 2016. In co-operation with a property development company Settle Oy.

Teuraspiha concept plan for Teurastamo Helsinki.

Design for a floating and living green island to increase biodiversity in a “blind spot” of Jätkäsaari Helsinki, 2014.

Landscape design and digitally painted visuals, a competition entry for Soulmade Local Hub in Taivallahti Helsinki 2019 in co-operation with Casagrande Laboratory and Bjørnådal arkitektstudio.

Set design for a new dance piece Kokongi: Luonnos 1 (Mediakeskus Lume 2011). With: Katri Liikola, Laura Haapakangas, Ville Mäkelä, Ilpo Heikkinen, Sanni Giordani, Soili Huhtakallio, Minna Karttunen ja Hanna Mönkäre. Photos: Sanna Käsmä.

Installation at architecture festival in Cadiz, Spain 2011. Co-work with international group of architecture students and the weather.

Set design, dance and drawing performance for a new dance piece Lasivatsaiset (Theatre Academy, Helsinki 2012). With: Katri Liikola, Minna Karttunen, Ilpo Heikkinen. Photos: Sanna Käsmä.

Lasivatsaiset installation and exhibition at Theatre Academy in Helsinki 2012-13.

A painting on weathered canvas as part of my Interseptio installation. KASTE / DAG / DEW ONOMA exhibition at Fiskars Art & Design Biennale 2026.

The techniques and materials are versatile when making landscape croquis. Interesting point is to follow the intuition and what comes up when spending time on the site. In this method, making art is a manner of being.

The main point with the method is to find out how the visual interpretation and multisensory observing can play role in landscape assessment and further in design process - landscape is not just in front of an observer.

The speed (or rapidity) is in essential role when sketching landscape as in croquis method. The quick croquis sketching reduces the spatial and visual elements to the minimum. The observer’s eyes, brain and hand must work in seamless collaboration to differ the essential lines from irrelevant visual noise.

Above: Use of natural materials and water-soluble colors enable weather’s visual presence on the sketches by dribbles and smudge. The reed pens were carved from common reed (järviruoko) and Polygonaceae plants (tatar) on the site.

Above: University students approaching landscape by making croquis in it. As a teacher I can not force students on the site if the weather conditions aren’t moderate. I have yet observed students’ apple-cheeked satisfaction and joy of finding when they have worked in rough weathers as self-imposed.

Below: Students’ landscape croquis hanged on the corridor wall at the campus. You can smell the weather and melting snow when passing by.

Pajupoika illustration and animation

An illustration inspired by an AI artist’s surreal photos.

Alku - childfriendly landscape architecture book.
Nomaji Landscape architects Ltd / Editor, illustrator

Illustrations for a nature-themed playground in Helsinki.
Nomaji Landscape architects Ltd / Landscape designer

Illustrations for a recreation plan for historical Aurora hospital area.
Nomaji Landscape architects Ltd / Assisting landscape designer

Illustrations for a landscape plan.
Nomaji Landscape architects Ltd / Assisting landscape designer

Illustration for a book Alku - childfriendly landscape architecture, Nomaji Landscape architects Ltd / Editor, illustrator

Illustrations and a trade booth wall for Kekkilä Oy’s new Luontoleikki concept.
Nomaji Landscape architects Ltd / Illustrator

Illustration for a roof garden plan Katajanokanlaituri. Nomaji Landscape architects Ltd / Illustrator

Cemetery expansion plan and illustrations for Näsinmäki Cemetery in Porvoo, in co-operation with Aistimaa Oy and Oula Rahkonen

Illustrations for Glims Farmstead Museum on permanent exhibition, Espoo City Museum, Espoo.

Experiments for a publication graphics