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An architectural guide to the nugget of late Soviet modernism, www.visaginas.guide, has been created to help you navigate the maze of typical and non-standard buildings in Visaginas.
Visaginas is a third-generation Soviet-era city, a joint work of the Kaunas and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) architects of the 1970s. The huge ambitions of creating an exclusive environment for nuclear power plant workers of different cultures are now visible in the urban fabric and architectural solutions: many small architectural elements, generous public spaces, different typical residential houses combined in non-standard structures, unique public buildings designed by Kaunas architects, preserved and forest massifs.
All these aspects give the impression of a collegiate but visually unified city. After getting off the train and walking for ten minutes along a forest path, you enter Kosmoso Street, the first district or “old city”, which consists of many Kaunas type houses. Otherwise the 111-120K series. We will also find the latter in the dormitories of Kaunas, but here in Visaginas, these typical apartment buildings have acquired modifications that give the impression of exclusivity. There are five types of large-panel residential houses throughout the city, animated by outbuildings and brick inserts.
Visaginas Architecture Guide (www.visaginas.guide) invites you to learn about the origins and characteristics of the objects of the youngest Lithuanian city, to see the context and details of the buildings in the architectural portraits created by the residents of Visaginas. At the moment, multiple apartment buildings are featured in the archive, but objects specially designed for Visaginas will eventually be added. The virtual architecture guide crowned the project “(In) Typical Architecture as an Event”, during which Visaginas residents explored their city through photography, movement, the history of architecture and the guests had the opportunity to experience the city through an extraordinary tour and exhibition in one of the city’s pergolas.
Photo of the organizers / Visaginas
The “(non) typical architecture as an event” sought to reveal the architectural and cultural value of still existing and extinct objects. In the activities that took place in July-October, architecture, which has become a common phenomenon, was seen as an event, an event that you want not only to observe, but also to participate and experience. The architect Martynas Germanavičius collected the material for the Visaginas Virtual Architecture Archive. The project was funded by the Lithuanian Culture Council and Visaginas Municipality. The project was implemented by the Public Institution Urban Stories.
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