The aim of the project is to create a functionally logical, user-friendly building that elevates the visitor above the utilitarian, motivates to reach for the heights, and nurtures and sustains community. The building is designed in stepped volumes, reflecting the needs of the spaces. Alongside the rectangular volumes, dynamic forms are designed - the building's diagonal entrance follows the intersection of Gilužis and Tolminkiemis streets, while the raised facades of the gyms on the second floor bring in more light and views and add to the space the vibrancy required for martial arts sports. The overall rhythm of the building is clearly articulated with expressive functional elements. This gives the building a distinct identity and a certain iconicity, which is crucial for a more contemporary representation of the whole block.

The building is designed on an undeveloped part of the site, in an elongated strip along Tolminkiemio Street. In this position, the building, while preserving the existing pedestrian paths and connections, the most valuable vegetation on the site and completing the development of the site, forms a new public space - the "Pine Avenue" for pedestrian and cyclist transit and recreation, and the building's associated accesses.

The building on this site should provide an urbanistic counterbalance to Vilnius St. Peter's Cathedral in the northern part of the core of Pilaitė's social districts. St. Jozeph's Church in the south of the Pilaitės core and become an architectural landmark closing off this core from the south side.

Project type: public

Status: Competition, 1st place
Area: 4275 m²
Year of completion: 2023
Location: Vilnius
Team: Dmitrij Kudin, Laura Malcaite, Ricardo Rodrigues, Liucija Kuchalskytė, Laurynas Liberis