Tomas S. Butkus


WATERMARKS REGENERATION
Klaipėda Old Town eastern part regeneration
(VGTU Master's studies project. Advisor prof. Algimantas Nasvytis. Vilnius, Lietuva. 1997)


Arch-ground 









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urbanistic accent
fragment of model 1
fragment of model 2
site plan

The previous dwellers on the land of New Pilsotas inhabited the other side of the decaying castle landmarks - water walls protecting the island city, a local castrum romanum. Today's island city is closely associated with blooming water plants rotting in the Dangė in August, with a my(s)thical bust of Stalin that was drowned, and with an imaginary, submerged flotilla in the bastion posterns. This is a part of its history. The island city is at the approximate place of the Old Town of Klaipėda today. Here the quarters have preserved the original features of the spatial structure of the ancient city. From the Dangė river to Didžiosios vandens street (Major Water street), we find only one construction type, the Lithuanian "house-possession" with streets for the guilds structured in a very regular way among small compact houses. At the other side of Didžioji vandens street, there is a section of Fridrich suburb – actually it's rather fragnmentary as a totality. The place where the old river Dangė was (the old landmark, a channel filled with soil) is now occupied by Didžioji vandens street, prophesying an unknown flood.

 

© Amber-Chamber studio. MMIII