In the exhibition "Architecture: Kaunas 2022" organized by the Lithuanian Architects' Union, the residential building in Litorina Street was nominated as the "Best Residential Building" project.

The house is built in Klaipėda by the Baltic Sea. The architectural idea of the house was inspired by the area itself, which is a former dune, currently overgrown with a forest, which base are pines. Therefore, the aim was to create a facade that is somewhat close to pine bark, so that the walls and roof of the building like scales resemble the bark of a pine.

The shape of the house is a distant hint reminiscent of gabled fishermen's houses, which in the old days were decorated with details of carved horses. Therefore, when replicating the fisherman's house, instead of those horses, a huge steel downspout protrudes into the facade, which is interpreted as a modern detail of nowadays, conveying the mood and allusion of seagull wings.

Team:

Architects: Architectural Bureau G.Natkevicius & Partners

Lead Architects: Paulius Narauskas, Adomas Rimšelis, Gintautas Natkevičius

Photographer: Leonas Garbačauskas