New Rail Baltic Parnu passenger terminal proposal has been designed to visualise a “seat” in the forest, a metaphysical space under the pine trees at the coast of the Baltic Sea. Inspired by the qualities of a piece of dressed wood, the piece of architecture tells a story about the tree itself, while the new terminal building compliments the contemporary architectural setting in order to establish a strong and reflexive relationship with nature and its intermediate surrounding environment.
Designed as a place for sustained dialogues within the natural context, spatial solution of terminal building intends to collect, translate and transform traditions of building techniques from surrounding urban context, in order to recreate the physical experience of being inside the woods.