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Delivery will be online
As the architecture and culture portal pilotas.lt announced on Friday, the project proposals for the reform of the Kaunas Town Hall Square will be presented to the public on November 23 (Monday), at 5 pm Transmission link here.
It is reported that the project for the layout of the most important space in the old town of Kaunas is planned to level the sidewalks, eliminate the traffic traffic, install a new square near Muziejaus street, install a new fountain and more. According to pilotas.lt, the architecture of the representative main square of the city of 2.19 ha is in charge of MB SOMA Architects, established in Vilnius just a few months ago.
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Won 7 years ago
According to data from the Registry Center, the small company with this name was registered just four and a half months ago, the head of the company is Lina Bareikytė-Dumčiuvienė. The portal “What is happening in Kaunas” managed to contact the contact telephone number indicated in the company’s data. The respondent herself confirmed that the project for the plaza is ready and will be presented to the public.
“We are interested in listening to the opinions, observations, needs of the citizens and then improving the project, if the proposals prove valuable,” said one of the project’s authors, architect L. Bareikytė-Dumčiuvienė.
According to her, Kaunas chose her project as the best of the three planned in 2013. “However, it was later decided that other parts of the city would be managed, and in Phase 2 the possibilities of starting the management of the old town and return to the Plaza del Ayuntamiento. That is what is happening now ”, said the director of MB SOMA Architects.
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He confirmed that the small community had recently been created specifically for this project, as in the past the project authors worked on commission. “Both I and my husband Povilas Dumčius, who is from Kaunas and studied at the Jesuit gymnasium, we are not separated from Kaunas, we understand the importance and details of this square,” said L. Bareikytė-Dumčiuvienė.
Cladding offers granite slabs
“The main objective of the project is to“ clean ”, reorganize and re-plan the square, giving priority to pedestrians and cyclists, eliminating the traffic of transit vehicles. The motto of the idea: “restored from old to new”. The development of the idea of a square looks to the past, when there was no transit traffic in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento and the limits of the square were determined only by the buildings that stand on the perimeter ”, reads the explanatory memorandum of project proposals.
With the abolition of car parking around the square and the abolition of transit traffic, the part of the square dedicated to transport will now be transformed into everyday functional spaces: summer cafe areas will be expanded and cozy rest areas will be created a little more closed. According to the authors of the project, the center of the square is left here for a representative function that can be flexibly converted into everyday life and leisure, allowing cafes to build tables closer to the center of the square or to build pavilions temporarily during various events.
The integrity of the plaza would be emphasized by the pavement pattern, which is covered from facade to facade. Throughout the square, it would be formed with granite slabs of different shades and existing carved stones, which are compared by cutting and burning. In the central axis of the Town Hall a new fountain is projected that springs from the square.
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In addition, in the northern part of the square, a complex of drinking fountains is planned, where the water would appear to spill over the pavement towards the “flowing spring.” It is suggested to keep all trees in good condition and transplant only very weak ones.
Authors of the Kaunas Town Hall Square Project – M. Raišutis, arch. L. Bareikytė-Dumčiuvienė, P. Dumčius, D. Žvirblis, architect of the cultural heritage part of the project – V. Skėrienė.
The only Dumčiai expressed a wish
As the city council commented on the portal “What’s happening in Kaunas”, in 2013 a competition for simplified open projects was announced to adapt the Kaunas Town Hall Square to the needs of the public, in which everyone could participate. interested providers. The contest was conducted by the Council of Experts in Architecture and Urbanism of Kaunas, 15 proposals were received.
During this contest, only ideas were contributed and evaluated, that is, the main solutions for the remodeling of the square. At the end of the competition, the winners of the first 5 places received prizes, ”said Daiva Čeponienė, Head of the Central Department of Public Procurement and Concessions of the Municipality of Kaunas.
The terms of the tender established that if it was decided to purchase design services (project preparation), this would be done from the first three winners of this tender, which would not be announced through negotiations.
“That is why at the beginning of this year, the simplified contracting of services for the preparation of the technical project for the layout of the Kaunas Town Hall Square was carried out in accordance with article 71 (4) of the Procurement Law Public through unannounced negotiations. The three winners of the previous contest were invited to participate, ”said D. Čeponienė.
According to her, a proposal was received: L. Bareikytė-Dumčiuvienė, acting on the basis of a joint activity agreement with Povilas Dumčiumas. Following negotiations, the winner agreed to produce a design proposal for the entire composition of the site, as well as a technical design, including a maintenance project, in accordance with the architectural concept developed for the design competition.
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