CIMPETITION | 3rd RPZE

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With the airport expanding and a new urban center emerging nearby, it is essential to implement not only local functional and aesthetic solutions but also to establish an architectural code for the area’s overall development, enabling sustainability and public space standards.

Before forming an urban-architectural concept, it is crucial to define value-based and qualitative vectors that address the challenges of Vilnius Airport.

 

PROBLEM

 

The structure of Vilnius Airport is complex and inconsistent in both stylistic and functional aspects.
With the airport's growth, it is necessary to address not only functionality but also sustainability and image-related challenges.

 

VALUE PARAMETERS

The new airport building is not merely a transportation hub but a fusion of social, economic, and environmental factors.
User experience is shaped not by massiveness or drasticness, which is foreign to Lithuanian culture and architecture, but by a balanced yet innovative identity that communicates the country’s values - innovation, sustainability, and transparency [openness].

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GENERAL IDEA

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Vilnius Airport represents safe yet open, contemporary, and sustainable architecture that continues the city’s urban development. Though a passenger's stay at the airport is TEMPORARY, it creates a CONNECTION - this is the essence of the CONTEMPORARY Vilnius Airport.

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URBAL IDEA

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The primary urban challenge is the highly varied and incomplete structure of the airport buildings, the inconsistent aesthetics, and the inactive public space network. Urban planning solutions encode complexity and integrate a public connectivity network throughout the planned area.

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ARCHITECTURAL IDEA

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The entire architectural vision for the airport expansion is based on unified principles. A consistent architectural code is applied to both the planned arrivals terminal and future development stages, reflecting modernity, sustainability, and openness. This typology requires a unique architectural expression, as airport buildings undeniably become landmarks that shape identity.

In the case of the new Vilnius Airport, architecture does not aim to create mere visual impact but rather an experience, a connection with the city and country. The architecture communicates Lithuania’s core values—innovation, sustainability, and transparency [openness].