Yokohama City Government visits KODA Park Tallinn

KODA by Kodasema

PRESS RELEASE

Tallinn, 11 July 2019

Japan is known for reduced availability of space and relatively small housing units. Considering that 60% of world’s population live on 30% of territory in Asia, and urbanisation is a clear and growing tendency, compact housing and vertical urbanisation are essential survival strategies.

Today, representatives of Yokohama City Government, Enterprise Estonia (EAS), Estonian Embassy in Tokyo, Japanese entrepreneurs in the tourism industry along with master students of engineering and at Yokohama University visited the innovative and experimental pop-up urban community KODA Park erected in Tallinn by Kodasema and to be opened for public this Saturday.

It is the aim of Kodasema to erect KODA Park multifunctional housing communities everywhere in the world where and when the need arises. The compact architecture of KODA by Kodasema serves the housing shortage and requirement in Japan in many different ways, being stackable, movable and factory-made whilst deliverable turnkey.

KODA by Kodasema architecture is an example of the exceptionally high quality of Estonian creative higher academic education. KODA reflects the implementation of the skills acquired in Estonian top performing school education system as well as higher architecture and engineering education institutions. In so doing, pure creativity meets technical competence, universal aesthetics and a sensitive understanding of the global housing crisis and its solution. 

Enterprise Estonia, Estonian Embassy in Tokyo along with entrepreneurs, public and private initiatives are strengthening the relationship between the two countries Japan and Estonia and facilitating economic, educational and cultural collaboration on many levels.

The visit of the Japanese delegation is among the initial steps for Kodasema to establish strong presence in Japan in collaboration with Japanese large trading houses (sogo shosha) like Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Marubeni, Itochu amongst others.