Naujasis Antakalnis

Objects of “Naujasis Antakalnis”

Kairėnai Botanical Garden

Kairėnai was mentioned in written resources for the first time in about 1545. At different times it was owned by the noblemen families - Isakauskiai, Sapiegos, Tyzenhauzai. In the 18th-19th c. Kairėnai mansion was owned by Lapacinskiai family. They renewed the old houses, built several outhouses, freshly rearranged the pools and water channel system, reconstructed former old park. In the end of the 18th century mansion houses suffered from huge fire. New one-storey and wooden houses instead of the burned-down buildings, were built in the beginning of the 19th c. In the first half of the 19th c., Kairėnai mansion was a place for active cultural life. As often as not, Vilnius elite visited musical evenings, theatre performances here. It was the concern of the master of the house – Mrs. Darata Marikonytė- Lapacinskienė. At that time Kairėnai mansion had a small paper mill, several water mills beside Viršupio stream. In 1870, Kairėnai mansion was bought by earl Juozapas Tiškevičius, and in 1899 it came to Stolypinai family. In 1933-1974, Kairėnai mansion was used as psycho neurological hospital, and in 1974, the remaining buildings and a 150ha of land together with the old Kairėnai mansion park were transferred to Vilnius University, and Vilnius University Botanical Garden was established (area of the park with the buildings makes 21,7 ha). The established botanical garden received also the buildings of former mansion – stabling, mill, cottar’s house, coach house, and icehouse. After ruthless times and various hardships, the old Kairėnai landscape park looked noticeably thin, but new owners added collections of botanical plants (150 ha territory holds 21 species of tress, 20 species of bushes, 11 species of shrubs and subshrubs, medicinal herbs, various fruiters and berry shrubs, flowers, also genetic collections) and area blossomed with new color. Beside the old local trees (Norway maples, ashes, littleleaf linden, Pedunculate oaks, silver and white birches, bird cherry …) garden is flushed with various rare exotic plants, trees and bushes nowhere seen in Lithuania. During the last two decades, botanical garden in Kairėnai became one of the richest gardens in the Baltic states – all of it a merit of devoted employees.

It is gratifying to know that botanical garden grows more and more beautiful and the former, but forgotten traditions of Kairėnai mansion revive once more – music sounds, loud poetical verses flow in the shades of the old linden where the enlighted people of Vilnius meet... And all this action is a sign of long and meaningful existence of Kairėnai park.
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Dvarčionys Geomorphologic Reservation

In the territory of 110 ha where Dvarčionys valley locates, reservation was established by the decision No I—2913 of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania in 24th, September, 1992 and is ordered in connection to the Law on State Protected Territories of LR, special conditions for arranging agricultural and forestry areas, provisions of state protected territories. Activity for fostering, highlighting and propagating the protected complexes or objects (values), renewing traditional natural or cultural elements of environment as well as cognitive tourism is well welcomed here. Dvarčionys geomorphologic reservation and state forests in it are acknowledged as high recreational potential territories with adaptability to leisure limitations under the general plan until 2015. After evaluation of the named requirements, we inspected the proposed extensive recreational zone in the territory of reservation, where special economical means shall be determined. Their aim – formation of mixed type nursery gardens on the downhills of the valley without allowing any open spaces, only those for cyclers and pedestrians, also sightseeing area or turrets, system of open spaces divided into small nursery groups (area of each of them reaching up to 0,5ha) on the bottom of the valley or separate solitaire forestry. This part of the valley shall facilitated with equipment and facilities for extensive recreational needs - paths, benches, body-builders, fields, resting areas, etc.
 

Parks and squares of the block

The major portion of green areas shall be grown on the territories lacking substantial for building constructions – namely in trench downhills, swampy, damp or springy places. Through concentration and connection of all the territories of this usage into one whole, our aim is to create a full-value system of greenery of various degrees and types of usage, which can serve for the recreational needs of the block and secure high living standards and quality, i.e. the whole where the requirements of certain interests and all age groups are met – from the isolated playgrounds for small children to spacious fields for active and extreme leisure time.

The current young and medium age leafy or mixed leafy-coniferous trees shall be transformed into the greenery of intensive use. Appropriate managing tools shall be used for forming forest greenery areas to serve and be resistant to the streams of visitors. Greenery shall be thinned, invaluable greenery shall be eliminated, open spaces formed, grass and recreational facilities shall be installed (paths, benches, body-builders, lighting facilities). The achievable rate of open spaces and forestry should be 1:3.


Current water pools

The surface area of the pool on the projected territory - 1,18 ha. Area of a planned beach - 0,7 ha, possible number of visitors – 440. Beach gear: volleyball, badminton courts, open air cafes, organized water recreation (water bikes, small boats, rent of recreational equipment, etc.). On the northeast, the projected territory joins with Dvarčionės streamlet (surface area – 3100 sq.m). Open spaces, entertainment fields shall be installed on the bank for intensive and extensive leisure. Accessibility of the water pools in the territory – about 300m.

Center of the block

Block centers are the places where all major service, sales, cultural and servicing facilities reside and where the central compositional unit is. The principal components and functional expression parts are:

  • Supermarket – overall area of the planned building - 8800 sq.m, lot area - 14123 sq.m. Center shall consist of: sales premises, offices, bank, catering institutions, leisure areas (billiards, bowling, etc.). A square area of 2119 sq.m is planned beside the supermarket car parking lot - 440 places.
  • The projected church building – overall area – 800-1200 sq.m, lot area – 2864 sq.m. The planned number of car parking spaces - 30. The unusable cemetery alongside the church could be united into one setting, when the cemetery shall be open for the public as a space of mind gathering, stillness, philosophical “Garden of Remembrance”.
  • A multifunctional residential complex with communal premises and small service enterprises on the first floors shall make a general area of 11200 sq.m.
  • Central plaza of the block shall be dedicated to car parking and securing of customer or visitor automobiles and during festivals – it shall be used for concerts, competitions, commemorations or organization of other events.
  • Medical institutions with a pharmacy, police station.


Kindergartens

Lot areas for the kindergartens – 3200 and 4000 sq.m. General area of kindergarten buildings - 5000 sq.m. Car parking lots shall place up to 40 cars. Children playgrounds are installed beside the projected greenery areas which work as a playground area during the day and for recreational purposes of the small residents of the block – in the evening. A progressive education system is planned where the process of self-education is in the first place, where education of understanding, feelings and willpower create a harmonious and free individual.


School (up to 980 places)

School with one projected shift. Physical training territory with football, universal basketball, volleyball courts and other required sports attributes are planned besides the school building. Dvarčionys Geomorphologic Reservation shall be a good place for additional exercising and education of school students.

 


Pedestrian and cycling paths

General length of paths - 15 km. In the limits of the projected block - 12.0 km, in the reservation – 3.0 km. Length of pedestrian and cycling paths inside the block – 10.0 km, inter-town paths – 2.3 km. A plan is to install bicycle storage places, bicycle lots with leisure gear. A network of paths is projected to unite the main centers of attraction in the block – shops, school, kindergartens, work and residential areas, parks and squares. Appropriate routes can be selected for every such goal: „commercial“ – shops and services, „active leisure“ – large slope paths through greenery with leisure gear, for active leisure time, „lazy leisure“ – trip on a convenient, picturesque, small slope track, „cognitive“ – path uniting the major sightseeing areas, information stands.


Public transportation

Public transport traffic and stop entrances are planned in Rokantiškių, Kalno and Pupojų streets. Our offer is to install more stops and make shorter distance and accessibility from residential areas. Shuttle network organization is oriented into the existing servicing of neighbouring blocks - Dvarčionys, Rokantiškės and communal garden territory. The target block communication system shall secure the following important transport traffic organizations and street network categorization requirements:

  • Shall secure the interlink of street network in the eastern part of the city and security of residential blocks from transit flows and freight traffics;
  • Shall guarantee the development of public transport shuttle network, installation of final points and stops.


Accommodation

Construction of flats and houses in Naujasis Antakalnis block shall be held according to the modern-passive house technologies. “Passive house" is a building consuming very low rates of energy for heating (less than 15 kWh/m2 per year). According to the idea of "Passive house" such dwelling as compared to simple house saves up to 70 to 80 percent of thermoelectricity. The principal criteria for the target passive house:

  • Energetically effective barriers of the building: air-to-heat transmission rate for the barriers of walls, roof, floor is not more than 0,10 W/K(m²).
  • Right orientation of the building: orientation of a passive house is selected so that most of transparent barriers of the building would face the direction of south, south-west and south-east.
  • Energy saving windows: air-to-heat transmission rate for the windows (glasses and frames together) is not more than 0.80 W/K(m²)
  • Building hermetic parameters: we guarantee perfect hermetic parameters of the building (n50< 0,6 1/h).
  • Heating of a supplied air in a passive house: the accessible air is heated to the needed temperature by using exhaust air heat.