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Finland lived, in the 1920s and 1930s, through an ephemeral time of peace and enthusiastic ideas in which it began to forge itself as a modern nation. Its borders still unstable, the country used its landscape as a social unifier and an element of national identity. Finland's incipient welfare state, institutionalised holidays and the democratised consumer goods encouraged a new leisure lifestyle in natural settings. This article studies the recreational housing programme that responded to that demand. The new typology, later called mökki in Finland, was developed during the rise of Nordic functionalism (funkkis in Finnish) – the revision of the romantic villa and the traditional rural housing model, together with the emergence of prefabrication techniques. Among the architectural competitions and drawing albums published on the subject, this article studies the competition run by the Enso-Gutzeit paper company in 1932. Other studies have analysed this competition from constructive, stylistic or historical perspectives. This paper provides a different view by explaining that the competition was a testing ground where one of modern Finnish architecture's distinctive features was forged: tuning into a constructed idea of nature. This fact is revealed through a graphical analysis of the competition's proposals, as well as through the incipient personal traits in the work of the promising, young Finnish architects who participated in the competition. ; Finlandia vivió en los años 1920 y 1930 un tiempo efímero de paz y efervescencia de ideas en los que comenzó a forjarse como nación moderna. Con sus fronteras aún inestables, el país utilizó su paisaje como aglutinador social y elemento de identidad nacional. El incipiente estado del bienestar, la institucionalización de las vacaciones y la democratización de los bienes de consumo, alentó una nueva forma de vida y ocio en entornos naturales. Este artículo estudia el programa de vivienda recreativa que dio respuesta a esa demanda. La nueva tipología, posteriormente llamada mökki en Finlandia, se desarrolló durante el auge del funcionalismo Nórdico (funkkis en finés), la revisión de la villa romántica y del modelo de vivienda rural tradicional, junto con la aparición de técnicas de prefabricación. De entre los concursos de arquitectura y álbumes de dibujos que se publicaron sobre el tema, este artículo estudia el convocado por la empresa papelera Enso-Gutzeit en 1932. Otros estudios han analizado este concurso desde lo constructivo, lo estilístico o lo histórico. Este artículo proporciona una visión diferente al afirmar que fue un campo de pruebas en el que se forjó uno de los rasgos distintivos de la arquitectura finlandesa moderna: el de su sintonía con una idea construida de naturaleza, que se desvela, en el análisis gráfico de las propuestas, a través de los incipientes rasgos personales del trabajo de las jóvenes promesas de la arquitectura finlandesa que participaron en el concurso.

Finland lived, in the 1920s and 1930s, through an ephemeral time of peace and enthusiastic ideas in which it began to forge itself as a modern nation. Its borders still unstable, the country used its landscape as a social unifier and an element of national identity. Finland's incipient welfare state, institutionalised holidays and the democratised consumer goods encouraged a new leisure lifestyle in natural settings. This article studies the recreational housing programme that responded to that demand. The new typology, later called mökki in Finland, was developed during the rise of Nordic functionalism (funkkis in Finnish) – the revision of the romantic villa and the traditional rural housing model, together with the emergence of prefabrication techniques. Among the architectural competitions and drawing albums published on the subject, this article studies the competition run by the Enso-Gutzeit paper company in 1932. Other studies have analysed this competition from constructive, stylistic or historical perspectives. This paper provides a different view by explaining that the competition was a testing ground where one of modern Finnish architecture's distinctive features was forged: tuning into a constructed idea of nature. This fact is revealed through a graphical analysis of the competition's proposals, as well as through the incipient personal traits in the work of the promising, young Finnish architects who participated in the competition. ; publishedVersion ; Peer reviewed

There has been a world-wide increase in scientific interest in health-enhancing physical activity (HEPA). The importance of a physically active lifestyle has now been well established both on the individual and on the population level. At the same time, physical inactivity has become a global problem. While sports for all has a long history, only a few examples of long-term integrated physical activity promotion strategies have been in place in Europe until recently, namely in Finland, the Netherlands and England. A number of countries have now begun to develop their own activities. However, there has been a noticeable lack of a platform for sharing the development and implementation of evidence-based policies and strategies. In order to fill this gap, HEPA Europe, the European Network for the Promotion of Health-Enhancing Physical Activity, was founded in May 2005 in Gerlev, Denmark. The goal of the network is to strengthen and support efforts and actions that increase participation in physical activity and improve the conditions favourable to a healthy lifestyle, in particular with respect to HEPA. The Network is working closely with the WHO Regional Office for Europe (http://www.euro.who.int/hepa). The network focuses on population-based approaches for the promotion of HEPA, using the best-available scientific evidence, and is currently implementing its first projects. HEPA Europe has established collaboration with EU Commission projects and Agita Mundo. Priorities for future work have been defined, and interested organisations and institutions have the opportunity to join the network and participate in the process.