Kūrybinės dirbtuvės „Vilniaus centro plėtra“

Abstract

An exhibition of the creative workshop “Development of Vilnius Downtown” took place at Vilnius Municipality on May 30 – June 9. Eleven groups of architects having participated in the creative workshop were happy to make their input into the sustainable urban development of Vilnius. Five sectors of the city were chosen as possible conversion territories. They were analysed by priorities submitted to the participants for creative elaboration of ideas and analysis: “City Gates”, “The River in the Town”, “Representational Function of the Capital”, “Sports and Cultural Objects”, “Integration of a Tram into the Downtown”, “Skyscrapers”, Industrial Conversion”, “City Parks and Public Spaces” and “Cultural Heritage Preservation and Management”. Sustainable development of a city depends on different interests of the municipality, investors and architects as well as on their successful consensus. A town has to be an integral organism having no underlying or second-class territories. Vilnius is supposed to develop its downtown and periphery territories gradually. The architectural ideas have demonstrated much concurrence with each other. One of the main ideas expressed almost in all projects has talked about structural changes of the downtown and transfer of its functions into potential territories: old harbours and industries, deserted territories, parks and cultural sites, high schools and even suburbs. A balance of decentralized concentration of all functional priorities of the town is in the focus of the city planners. The sustainable development of the town has to elaborate the functional accents of the main morfostructural elements of Vilnius such as Tauras Hill or Šeškinė slopes as well as to preserve and integrate green areas into conversion territories.