Community center in Pavilnys

Location: Vilnius, Pavilnys

Year: 2023 m.

Status: Competition (3ed place)

Category: Cultural

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

Area: 1 728 m²

The conceptual idea of ​​the complex was inspired by the existing building on the plot. Over many decades, it has already become a sign and a kind of symbol of this place in the minds of the residents. In the project, we propose to renovate this building while maintaining its volume. In an urbanistic sense, it forms the pavement of the street, and the scale is close to the surrounding buildings. It is impossible to accommodate the program provided for in the competition in the renovated building alone, so a new, modern volume was designed next to it, contextually adapted to the existing object. The created three-volume composition includes spatial pauses, left gaps, which organically form the entrance lobby and the outdoor library space. The materiality of the existing and new volumes is basically the same, wooden facades are designed. In the renovated building, the prevailing old, historical style of wood plank decoration is maintained, while the new volumes are boarded only vertically, thus conceptually linking, but also separating the old building from the new volumes.