Marcinkevičiaus str. 72

Location: Vilnius, Santariškės

Year: 2023 m.

Status: Competition (1st place)

Category: School

Authors: Gintaras Čaikauskas, Agnė Mockevičiūtė, Faustas Lasys, Monika Stražinskaitė, Simonas Čaikauskas

Area: 7500 m²

After conducting an urban survey of the existing situation, we noticed that the chains of surrounding cottages and single-family residential houses - a kind of "fingers" - extend towards the forest massif. The school is designed as another missing "finger". The building is organically inserted into the environment, four volumes are formed, parallel to the directions of construction of neighboring residential houses. The composition of the school consists of four buildings of different sizes, which, like blocks, form a cozy inner space - aula. The main entrance is expressed by a sensitive, functionally wide space between the bodies. A gap is also formed between the volumes on the south side. In this way, a conceptual connection between the city and nature is created. As soon as you enter the school, standing in the main space, you can clearly perceive the subtle closeness of nature.