ST. JACOBS
LOCATION: Vilnius, Vasario 16-osios str. 1YEAR: 2019 m.
STATUS: Competition
CATEGORY: Mixed use
AUTHORS: Gintaras Čaikauskas, Miroslaw Szejnicki, Faustas Lasys, Gabrielė Rinkevičiūtė, Simonas Čaikauskas
GROSS AREA: 21 263 m²
While designing, we focused on exhibiting the dominant volume of the church, opening up valuable perspectives on the complex and visual panoramas on the right bank of the Neris River and the new center of Vilnius.
The new buildings, clearly reflecting contemporary architectural trends, functionally fit their typological purpose, moderately compose to the ambient background character of the environment, and immediately blend into the prevailing ambient mood.
The stylistic solution of the new architecture is personalized, closely linked to the sizes, heights, scales, colors of adjacent buildings, but clearly reflects contemporary stylistic concepts. The tradition of pitched roofs is continued, with the opening of the openings leaving only partially larger planes of open glass facing the spectacular panoramas.
Other facade planes are covered with modern vertical strip systems.