Vilnius city municipality will look for ways to manage the Lazdynai district, adapting it to modern needs, but without damaging the valuable architectural and urban features.
This week, the administration of the capital city published the project of guidelines for the management of the part of Vilnius included in the register of cultural heritage on the Central Public Procurement Portal (CPP).
"To indicate the possibilities and directions for the development and management of Lazdynai, which would not damage (...) the valuable properties and ensure the preservation of the architecture and urban identity of Lazdynai, adapting the district to modern needs", the purpose of the purchase was stated by the municipality.
The drafters of the guidelines will have to carry out historical, urban, architectural, artistic and greenery studies of Lazdyni, which could be used to initiate the refinement of valuable properties, prepare a description of the significance of Lazdyni, indicate directions for the renewal of the territory that would not damage the valuable properties of this part of the city.
Lazdyna heritage protection requirements and specific protection measures will also have to be prepared.
The guidelines preparers will also be asked to provide recommendations on how to renovate the residential buildings of the Soviet period in Lazdynia - what finishing materials to use, what color the facades should be, how to make the rooms on the first floors functional.
It is expected that the organizers will also inform the residents of Lazdyni about the guidelines, meet their expectations and take their comments into account.
In 1962, architects Vytautas Edmundus Čekanauskas and Vytautas Brėdikis were commissioned to design a new residential area in the west of Vilnius, Lazdynus, for 40 people. population. The first houses in the area were inhabited in 1969.
In 1974, the Lazdynai team of architects was awarded the Lenin Prize for their advanced solutions.
Hazelnuts is one of the first modern districts of Vilnius, designed according to the example of Western cities, people used to drive to it tourists.
The Lazdynai project played a significant role in the history of modern residential urbanism in Lithuania.
Author Vilmantas Venckūnas
