Situated on the Gateway to the City.
The city map places the proposal on a major approach to Kaunas. Its position gives the commercial hub a role at the meeting of movement, urban development and the surrounding landscape.
The Serpent
A Kaunas commercial-hub proposal connecting retail, logistics and workplaces through a shared public landscape.
- Project and location
- The Serpent, Kaunas, Lithuania
- Year
- 2021
- Typology
- Work
- Program
- Retail, Office, Storage
- Size
- 70,400 m2
Primary Visibility from the Highway.
The road network gives the site strong visibility and access by car. The commercial concept responds to this scale without allowing vehicle movement to become its only spatial experience.
A Disconnected Pedestrian Network.
The source analysis identifies breaks in the surrounding pedestrian network. This condition makes the approach on foot a design question, rather than assuming that highway access also creates a welcoming public place.
A Connector Between Three Conditions.
Forest, urban neighbourhood and commercial infrastructure surround the site. The proposal treats their meeting as an opportunity to connect green space, everyday activity and a new public frontage.
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Situated on the Gateway to the City.
The city map places the proposal on a major approach to Kaunas. Its position gives the commercial hub a role at the meeting of movement, urban development and the surrounding landscape.
Primary Visibility from the Highway.
The road network gives the site strong visibility and access by car. The commercial concept responds to this scale without allowing vehicle movement to become its only spatial experience.
A Disconnected Pedestrian Network.
The source analysis identifies breaks in the surrounding pedestrian network. This condition makes the approach on foot a design question, rather than assuming that highway access also creates a welcoming public place.
A Connector Between Three Conditions.
Forest, urban neighbourhood and commercial infrastructure surround the site. The proposal treats their meeting as an opportunity to connect green space, everyday activity and a new public frontage.
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- Project and location
- The Serpent, Kaunas, Lithuania
- Year
- 2021
- Typology
- Work
- Program
- Retail, Office, Storage
- Size
- 70,400 m2
Warehouse Versus Urban Retail Experience.
The starting point is a distinction between the efficient warehouse model and the social life of a street. The source diagram shows activities arranged around shopping as a single centre.
A Hybrid of Qualities.
The proposed shift brings shopping alongside meeting, eating, playing, learning and exploring. The diagram imagines a shared commercial setting in which everyday activities give people more reasons to stay.
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Warehouse Versus Urban Retail Experience.
The starting point is a distinction between the efficient warehouse model and the social life of a street. The source diagram shows activities arranged around shopping as a single centre.
A Hybrid of Qualities.
The proposed shift brings shopping alongside meeting, eating, playing, learning and exploring. The diagram imagines a shared commercial setting in which everyday activities give people more reasons to stay.
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- Project and location
- The Serpent, Kaunas, Lithuania
- Year
- 2021
- Typology
- Work
- Program
- Retail, Office, Storage
- Size
- 70,400 m2
Strip Typology.
A simple strip establishes two different edges: a public face and a working side. Retail, storage and service access can be related through this clear starting organisation.
Swept Along the Site.
Bending the strip produces the serpentine figure. The same public-and-service relationship follows its turns, while the curve begins to define a sequence of spaces across the site.
Public Space.
The public side gathers arrival, movement and places to pause. The long frontage is conceived as an inhabited edge rather than an isolated warehouse wall.
Logistics.
The inner side carries the service route behind the public frontage. The diagram gives deliveries and storage a coherent place in the overall organisation, without treating them as the visitor-facing experience.
Visual Points.
Selected points give the long form a presence from different directions. The proposal studies visibility as part of the site-wide composition, not only as a sign applied to a building.
Retail Frontage.
Repeated pitched elements break the long commercial edge into a closer rhythm of entrances and windows. The roof and facade translate the scale of the whole development into the experience of approaching a shopfront.
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Strip Typology.
A simple strip establishes two different edges: a public face and a working side. Retail, storage and service access can be related through this clear starting organisation.
Swept Along the Site.
Bending the strip produces the serpentine figure. The same public-and-service relationship follows its turns, while the curve begins to define a sequence of spaces across the site.
Public Space.
The public side gathers arrival, movement and places to pause. The long frontage is conceived as an inhabited edge rather than an isolated warehouse wall.
Logistics.
The inner side carries the service route behind the public frontage. The diagram gives deliveries and storage a coherent place in the overall organisation, without treating them as the visitor-facing experience.
Visual Points.
Selected points give the long form a presence from different directions. The proposal studies visibility as part of the site-wide composition, not only as a sign applied to a building.
Retail Frontage.
Repeated pitched elements break the long commercial edge into a closer rhythm of entrances and windows. The roof and facade translate the scale of the whole development into the experience of approaching a shopfront.
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- Project and location
- The Serpent, Kaunas, Lithuania
- Year
- 2021
- Typology
- Work
- Program
- Retail, Office, Storage
- Size
- 70,400 m2
One Continuous Urban Figure.
The aerial view brings the concept together: a continuous building curves around landscape, arrival and public spaces. The repeated roofline makes the whole recognisable, while the bends create different relationships between the commercial frontage and its surroundings.
- Project and location
- The Serpent, Kaunas, Lithuania
- Year
- 2021
- Typology
- Work
- Program
- Retail, Office, Storage
- Size
- 70,400 m2
The Working Edge.
The complete annotated axonometric relates service access, retail frontage, parking, bridge and plazas. Goods and visitors belong to the same development, but their routes have different roles. The proposal gives the logistics edge a clear organisation behind the shared public experience.
The Working Edge.
The complete annotated axonometric relates service access, retail frontage, parking, bridge and plazas. Goods and visitors belong to the same development, but their routes have different roles. The proposal gives the logistics edge a clear organisation behind the shared public experience.
- Project and location
- The Serpent, Kaunas, Lithuania
- Year
- 2021
- Typology
- Work
- Program
- Retail, Office, Storage
- Size
- 70,400 m2
Public Spaces.
The public network links arrival, walking, cycling and gathering along the commercial frontage. The diagram distinguishes these spaces from the deeper service side, giving visitors a legible sequence through the development.
Logistics Spaces.
Service access and docking occupy the working network behind the public edge. The drawing studies how deliveries and storage can be organised without making the logistics route the principal visitor experience.
Green Spaces.
Planted edges, green parking and water landscape are considered as a connected setting. Water retention and an acoustic landscape edge form part of the source concept, linking the public approach with the surrounding green network.
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Public Spaces.
The public network links arrival, walking, cycling and gathering along the commercial frontage. The diagram distinguishes these spaces from the deeper service side, giving visitors a legible sequence through the development.
Logistics Spaces.
Service access and docking occupy the working network behind the public edge. The drawing studies how deliveries and storage can be organised without making the logistics route the principal visitor experience.
Green Spaces.
Planted edges, green parking and water landscape are considered as a connected setting. Water retention and an acoustic landscape edge form part of the source concept, linking the public approach with the surrounding green network.
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- Project and location
- The Serpent, Kaunas, Lithuania
- Year
- 2021
- Typology
- Work
- Program
- Retail, Office, Storage
- Size
- 70,400 m2
A Public Face for Commerce.
Glazed fronts reveal activity inside the commercial strip. Repeated roof and facade elements give its long edge a more immediate rhythm, while planting mediates between parking and the shopfront. Arrival becomes a sequence of approaches rather than a single blank warehouse elevation.
- Project and location
- The Serpent, Kaunas, Lithuania
- Year
- 2021
- Typology
- Work
- Program
- Retail, Office, Storage
- Size
- 70,400 m2
The Hug.
A bend in the building gathers a landscaped public approach. Paths, planting and places to pause introduce a slower pace between commercial destinations. The proposal makes the journey through the development part of its social experience, not simply the distance between a car and a shop.
- Project and location
- The Serpent, Kaunas, Lithuania
- Year
- 2021
- Typology
- Work
- Program
- Retail, Office, Storage
- Size
- 70,400 m2
The Water Plaza.
The water plaza becomes a shared focus between the retail fronts. Open space, outdoor activity and the connecting bridge give the commercial development a collective centre. The concept render explores how people might gather and spend time alongside the everyday business of shopping.
- Project and location
- The Serpent, Kaunas, Lithuania
- Year
- 2021
- Typology
- Work
- Program
- Retail, Office, Storage
- Size
- 70,400 m2
A Shared Section.
The first section moves from logistics and storage through retail and food uses towards public plazas. It reveals the relationship between the deeper working volume and the more open visitor-facing edge.
A Continuous Spatial Rhythm.
The second section follows the repeated units, offices and landscape across the development. Its complete dimensions and labels make the relationship between the different spaces visible within the concept study.
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A Shared Section.
The first section moves from logistics and storage through retail and food uses towards public plazas. It reveals the relationship between the deeper working volume and the more open visitor-facing edge.
A Continuous Spatial Rhythm.
The second section follows the repeated units, offices and landscape across the development. Its complete dimensions and labels make the relationship between the different spaces visible within the concept study.
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- Project and location
- The Serpent, Kaunas, Lithuania
- Year
- 2021
- Typology
- Work
- Program
- Retail, Office, Storage
- Size
- 70,400 m2
A Bridge from the City.
The red pedestrian bridge becomes a visible approach to the development. It links the proposed public landscape and glazed frontage through an elevated route, offering a different experience of arrival from the surrounding roads. Its role is spatial and civic as well as connective.
- Project and location
- The Serpent, Kaunas, Lithuania
- Year
- 2021
- Typology
- Work
- Program
- Retail, Office, Storage
- Size
- 70,400 m2
Ground Floor.
Retail addresses the public edge while storage occupies the deeper side of the ground-floor strip. The source programme diagram expresses this relationship through colour, retaining the original study rather than replacing it with a new numerical schedule.
First Floor.
The first-floor study brings retail, food uses and offices into the upper frontage. The bridge reaches the bend of the building, connecting arrival with another level of commercial and public activity.
Second Floor.
The second-floor study locates offices along the upper public-facing edge. Workplaces add another layer of occupation to the same form, above the relationship between retail and storage established below.
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Ground Floor.
Retail addresses the public edge while storage occupies the deeper side of the ground-floor strip. The source programme diagram expresses this relationship through colour, retaining the original study rather than replacing it with a new numerical schedule.
First Floor.
The first-floor study brings retail, food uses and offices into the upper frontage. The bridge reaches the bend of the building, connecting arrival with another level of commercial and public activity.
Second Floor.
The second-floor study locates offices along the upper public-facing edge. Workplaces add another layer of occupation to the same form, above the relationship between retail and storage established below.
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- Project and location
- The Serpent, Kaunas, Lithuania
- Year
- 2021
- Typology
- Work
- Program
- Retail, Office, Storage
- Size
- 70,400 m2
A First Part of the Whole.
The preliminary first phase establishes the lower part of the commercial strip. It studies how one part could begin the larger organisation of public frontage, storage and service access.
Extending the Street.
The second phase continues the strip through the central bend. Its organisation follows the same relationship between commercial frontage and deeper storage established at the beginning.
Completing the Figure.
The third phase completes the upper reach of the form. The three diagrams test an incremental sequence while keeping the overall public, service and landscape relationships in view.
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A First Part of the Whole.
The preliminary first phase establishes the lower part of the commercial strip. It studies how one part could begin the larger organisation of public frontage, storage and service access.
Extending the Street.
The second phase continues the strip through the central bend. Its organisation follows the same relationship between commercial frontage and deeper storage established at the beginning.
Completing the Figure.
The third phase completes the upper reach of the form. The three diagrams test an incremental sequence while keeping the overall public, service and landscape relationships in view.
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- Project and location
- The Serpent, Kaunas, Lithuania
- Year
- 2021
- Typology
- Work
- Program
- Retail, Office, Storage
- Size
- 70,400 m2
A Material Language for Each Edge.
The source proposes timber warehouse interiors, glazed retail fronts, metal service facades and permeable green parking. These material intentions distinguish the working and public sides without breaking the overall figure. At night, the bridge and lit frontage give the public approach a different presence.
- Project and location
- The Serpent, Kaunas, Lithuania
- Year
- 2021
- Typology
- Work
- Program
- Retail, Office, Storage
- Size
- 70,400 m2
Typical Ground Floor.
The ground-floor study places smaller occupied rooms at the public frontage and deeper storage behind. Repeated bays allow different unit scales to be explored within one architectural language. Original linework, dimensions and room relationships remain intact.
Typical First Floor.
The first-floor study locates offices along the frontage beside the larger storage volume. The drawing explains how work, commerce and logistics can occupy different parts of the same repeated unit.
Typical Section.
The section shows retail and offices beside deeper storage under the repeated pitched roof. Their different heights and depths explain the characteristic profile, with all original dimensions and annotations retained.
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Typical Ground Floor.
The ground-floor study places smaller occupied rooms at the public frontage and deeper storage behind. Repeated bays allow different unit scales to be explored within one architectural language. Original linework, dimensions and room relationships remain intact.
Typical First Floor.
The first-floor study locates offices along the frontage beside the larger storage volume. The drawing explains how work, commerce and logistics can occupy different parts of the same repeated unit.
Typical Section.
The section shows retail and offices beside deeper storage under the repeated pitched roof. Their different heights and depths explain the characteristic profile, with all original dimensions and annotations retained.
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- Project and location
- The Serpent, Kaunas, Lithuania
- Year
- 2021
- Typology
- Work
- Program
- Retail, Office, Storage
- Size
- 70,400 m2
Smallest Division Strategy.
The first option tests a fine-grained distribution of smaller units, with anchor stores and a supermarket marking key parts of the strip. The source keeps the distinction between everyday shops and larger destinations visible.
Categorized Strategy.
The second option groups different unit sizes within the same continuous building. Repetition provides a shared framework while larger units introduce a different rhythm along the frontage.
Mixed Strategy.
The mixed option distributes different unit sizes across the strip. It studies how varied commercial needs could coexist within the same public-and-service organisation, without implying committed tenants or final allocations.
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Smallest Division Strategy.
The first option tests a fine-grained distribution of smaller units, with anchor stores and a supermarket marking key parts of the strip. The source keeps the distinction between everyday shops and larger destinations visible.
Categorized Strategy.
The second option groups different unit sizes within the same continuous building. Repetition provides a shared framework while larger units introduce a different rhythm along the frontage.
Mixed Strategy.
The mixed option distributes different unit sizes across the strip. It studies how varied commercial needs could coexist within the same public-and-service organisation, without implying committed tenants or final allocations.
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- Project and location
- The Serpent, Kaunas, Lithuania
- Year
- 2021
- Typology
- Work
- Program
- Retail, Office, Storage
- Size
- 70,400 m2