Wilderness Atelier of Vilniemi Part 2 Project 2019 Tuuli Kanerva Aalto University | Finland Wilderness atelier of Vilniemi is a new atelier residence that creates a connection between past and present by reacting to the place of a demolished 19th century atelier house, a forgotten retreat deep in the forest, of which only the foundation remains. The intention behind the project is to draw from the history while reaching towards the timeless, to reinterpret the site in order to the existing and the new to merge and strengthen each other and finally to offer the artist an invigorating experience of living and working in nature. Hence the thesis studies also the psychological and the spatial needs of the artist: the balance between rest and work, inspiration and creation. Tutor(s)