Extended Lifespan

Extended Lifespan

Without facing demolition, how could these buildings potentially be saved? Daniel Baldwin Hess, a professor at the University of Buffalo, looked at the current state of the soviet housing blocks and created a list of lessons to take away from what the soviets created, there were a total of seven lessons. The lessons include social and economic factors, and it is based on the initial design process and what the soviet union have left behind because of it. It all leads to the

seventh lesson of what we should do with these buildings now “(a) do-nothing, (b) downsize, (c) demolish (and replace) and (d) renovate” (Hess, 2019). Hess further analyses the potential of them, and like other European countries a solution to what could be. Out of four possible options, renovating is the most optimistic and could possibly be the cheapest option against demolition. The Lithuanian National Radio television interviewed Urbanist Zivile Simkute and

Architect Egidijus Kasakaitis where they touched upon that future residents should need to know the history of these buildings beforehand and have an understanding of the type of housing block they live in (LRT 2021). This was a possible solution for privately owned apartments to resolve the issue at hand on their own, as renovating an entire microrayon is too expensive for the Lithuanian government (LRT 2021).

14. Abandoned Soviet block.