DO ARCHITECTS - Vilnius Pilaitė Gymnasium

Type: Educational Status: Complete Area: 12 000 m² Year: 2019 - 2022

Location: Pilaitė, Vilnius, Lithuania

Team: Algimantas Neniškis Andrė Baldišiūtė Sabina Grincevičiūtė Gilma Teodora Gylytė Kasparas Žiliukas Aurimas Lenktys Solveiga Buoželytė Karolis Grigaitis Mikas Kauzonas Gerda Nevulytė Roberta Žvirblytė Vytenis Stasiūnas Justas Paičius

Client: Vilniaus city municipality

Photos: Norbert Tukaj, Saulius Žiūra, DO ARCHITECTS team

Contacts: Andrė Baldišiūtė - Chief Architect andre.baldisiute@doarchitects.lt + 370 652 44828

DO ARCHITECTS

Naujoji Riovonių g. 21A, LT-03153, Vilnius www.doarchitects.lt

“Our office won the first place in architectural competition and was tasked to set the bar for the quality of architecture for government sponsored educational buildings. We sincerely hope that the esthetics and values set in this project will remain an aspiration in future competitions for schools and gymnasiums.

Chief Architect Andrė Baldišiūtė

VILNIUS PILAITĖ GYMNASIUM

Vilnius Pilaitė Gymnasium

Vilnius Pilaitė Gymnasium is located in the western part of Vilnius. The site of the gymnasium continues the axis of public buildings crossing the center of the district. In additional to functional school, one of project goals was to create a new community space for people to use during gymnasium non-working hours. Therefore, the building is planed near the street to strengthen the perimeter.

An urban, over viewable environment is created at the entrances of the school, and the volume invites the community of Pilaitė to get involved in activities and create an active relationship with the street. Children gathering in the morning and during daytime as well as the community residents gathering in the evening will create the critical mass necessary for a vibrant district center.

Urban integrity

The site plan concept continues the existing urban fabric of perimeter construction of residential blocks. The volume of the school is designed along Tolminkienis Street and strenthens the existing fragmented perimeter of the street. In this way, an urban, overviewable, cozy and safe environment is created at the entrances of the school. The building volume invites the community of Pilaitė to get involved in activities and create an active relationship with the street. Children gathering at the school and its surroundings in the morning or during the day and the community of residents gathering in the evening will create the critical mass necessary for a vibrant district center.

In the center a fenced yard is planned for sports and recreation. A stadium, basketball court, running track and a recreational outdoor space with a terraces are planned in the yard.

In the southern part a bicycle track, a skateboard park, and children’s playgrounds are creatd. The square forms a green connection between residential blocks and existing church in site next to the school.

Sport square

Recreational space

Side entrances

Side entrances

Architectural idea

The compact rectangular volume of the school building consists of a core with shared spaces – amphitheater, hallways, sports court - and a ring of classrooms surrounding it. A multifunctional space is being created around the amphitheater where the school community meets and works. The core is always buzzing with action and is the core space for activities. An open and functional space is created in the school, which encourages the development and formation of young personalities.

CLASSROOMS

CANTEEN EVENTS SPORTS HALL

“Children gathering in the morning and during daytime as well as the community residents gathering in the evening will create the critical mass necessary for a vibrant district center.”

Architect Kasparas Žiliukas

VILNIUS PILAITĖ GYMNASIUM

VILNIUS PILAITĖ GYMNASIUM

VILNIUS PILAITĖ GYMNASIUM

VILNIUS PILAITĖ GYMNASIUM

VILNIUS PILAITĖ GYMNASIUM

The public recreational space has overview of the sports field for the parents and spectators. More imporatantly it fills the missing function of meeting your neighbor and getting to know your neighbor in a warm and cozy environment.

The interior spaces

The center of the building and its functions are the most active and noisy areas with the greatest movement, informal communication between teachers and students, watching sports and events in the assembly halls. Quieter zones are organized in the wide corridors around the sports and event halls. They provide spaces for individual and group work, and build modular furniture that can be changed and combined as needed. The quietest zones are organized in the library and reading room on the first floor.

The acoustics of the school’s internal spaces are solved in a complex way - highprofile wooden beams absorb and disperse sound, the textured finish of the internal partitions separates sound reflection from surfaces. The partitions of the sports and assembly halls do not border the classrooms, and the passages between the halls and classrooms are a protective zone that stops sounds coming from noisy areas.

VILNIUS PILAITĖ GYMNASIUM

Classrooms

Classrooms are opened to the hallway by installing glass doors, thus creating the feeling of a street, when you can feel what is happening in the surrounding rooms while walking. During presentations or events, when the classroom doors are wide open, the space extends into the hallway. The transparency of the spaces ensures a safe and pleasant environment for each student, because even if he/she is alone in the central space, the student will feel comfortable, being able to watch the action in the gym out of the corner of his eye. This creates the concept of a “classroom without borders”, a space that promotes cooperation and education.

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Sports hall

A sports hall is planned inside the School. The hall can be overlooked from the second floor open perimeter hall. It can be also seen from the 3rd floor windows, which give a square and community feeling for variuos events. Around the perimeter of hall 7 private sports classes are made dedicated to other sports acitvities. Sports classrooms also provide the privacy sometimes needed for concentration.

VILNIUS PILAITĖ GYMNASIUM

VILNIUS PILAITĖ GYMNASIUM

Roof Courtyard

We always seek to create as many vibrant and public spaces for people to communicate, meet and form relationships. The rooftop courtyard with skylights creates a double function: first, it enables light to the sports hall. Second, if we want our children to spend more time outside it has to be easily accessible - therefore from the highest floor of school you do not need to get to first to have a fresh air break.

First floor

The first floor is programmatically open to the public and the local community. It has many different functions - technology laboratories, a multifunctional event hall, a sports club and a library. All these functions have access from the street and can operate autonomously. The solution of entrances from the street increases the vitality of the street, creates opportunities for residents to use the public access functions provided by the school. The perimeter of the streets and the first floor of the gymnasium take on different characters and become actively used, they acquire features specific to the city, promote the relationship of passers-by with the ongoing activities, and reduce the image of the school as a closed institution. The building is used not only during classes - in the evenings and weekends, when the classrooms are empty, local residents gather here, lights are turned on in the laboratories, book presentations are held in the library, and competitions are held in the gym.

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STREET FACADE

COURTYARD FACADE

VILNIUS PILAITĖ GYMNASIUM

DO ARCHITECTS has been actively involved in the creation of educational spaces for more than 9 years. We believe that learning - from the environment, from each other, from nature is an essential way for man and Lithuania to move forward. And and quality of architecture and public spaces educates by itself.

About

DO ARCHITECTS was founded in 2013 by four partners-architects: Andrė Baldišiūtė, Gilma Teodora Gylytė, Algimantas Neniškis and Sabina Grincevičiūtė. A team of professionals, insightful, hardworking, curious, sensitive to the environment, courageous people work complex projects, which create a significant and lasting changes in cities and the closest human environment.

Currently, the DO ARCHITECS team holds more than 50 architects, urban planners and interior architects with international experience in Holland, Denmark, China, the United Kingdom, Germany, Singapore, France, Spain.

DO ARCHITECTS has been nominated 4 times for Europe’s most prestigious „Mies van der Rohe Award“ for Contemporary Architecture, won 3 main prizes at annual Lithuanian Contemporary Architecture Awards „Žvilgsnis į save“. The team’s projects are regularly published in Lithuanian and foreign media.

DO ARCHITECTS has been nominated by DEZEEN as 1 of the 30 EMERGING STUDIO of the 2022 in the world!

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