It can be found here on Google map.
Hallila is worthy of study - a kind of island
of suburbia (flats and houses) inside a forest, probably dating from the 70s. This is a pathway from Loukkankatu, leading into the space.
Then it gets a little more rustic once we lead off from Lepikönkatu.
It's a classic forested interior park although it has a well-worn path along one (eastern) edge, and some minor useful features installed.
Approaching the rotunda
If you can call it that, actually, you probably shouldn't.
I was taken by this house on the north-eastern edge of the path, these people are - in the nicest possible way - exhibitionists I'd say.
Their back yard
The front of their house.
All in all, a satisfactory, and obviously valued, little space that is mainly taken up with quite impenetrable forest. But there's forest everywhere here: check the map, and you'll see that south of this space is a large forested space which most local houses back onto. This is the pathway going into that space on the other side of Lepikönkatu.
The next pictures are just the pathway going through the forest between Lepikönkatu and Näreikönkatu:
A record of field trips and other explorations of a particular urban design element - the internal reserve - a 'pocket park' surrounded on all sides by residential housing but accessible by pedestrian pathways from the street. They are exclusive, secluded, sometimes neglected, sometimes celebrated, suburban spaces. This blog welcomes contributions: comments, images, memorabilia. Please email nicholsd@unimelb.edu.au
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