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Context
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Park view
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Street view
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Balcony detail
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Inner courtyard
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Site plan
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Ground floor plan
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First floor plan
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North elevation
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West elevation
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Panel
Reconstruction of sanatorium into reacreational building
Aketuri architektai. Palanga, Lithuania
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Name of work in English
Reconstruction of sanatorium into reacreational building
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Name of work in original language
Sanatorijos rekonstrukcija į poilsio paskirties pastata
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2019
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Work Location
Palanga, Lithuania
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Studio
Aketuri architektai
EUmies Awards 2019 Nominees
The aim of the project was to convert a derelict site and its pre-war sanatorium complex into a publicly open and charming attraction.
Program
Food & Accommodation
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Labels
Heritage · Sleeping
Site area
6887 m²
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Client
Kauno kunigu seminarija
Total gross floor
720 m²
Completion
2017
The L-shaped envelope of the building is split into 3 parts by external connections to achieve lightness at the points where volumes meet. Apart from practical reasons this distancing becomes a principal tool of the project's composition that carries on to the main façade where a slight setback of the first floor works as a retreat from the busy street.
By dealing with a significantly meaningful site in the very heart of a holiday bustle this project carries a fresh and contemporary approach to stylistically disorientated and overcrowded attraction point of the city. Taking into consideration important details like seasonal pavilion incorporation determined a more integral approach where predominant wooden terraces, compact buildings and typical seafront vegetation can prevail without being out shadowed by later unplanned additions.
Structural scheme is of monolithic concrete. Wooden decorative elements are curious details inspired by regional motifs of nature and historical character that add up to a reasoned and coherent unity of the project.