We’d like to take the opportunity to introduce you to the 1st, Green and Student prize winners of our "Humble Architecture: Everest Challenge" competition – Aurelija Kniukštaitė, Jonė Virbickaitė and Kotryna Bajorinaitė from Lithuania!
Aurelija Kniukštaitė, Jonė Virbickaitė and Kotryna Bajorinaitė from Lithuania
We are a team of fifth year architecture students from the Vilnius Academy of Arts. All three of us started our journey towards the world of architecture just after graduating high school and now are working together in the same architecture office. We participate or get involved in various workshops, as well as discussions and events related to architecture and creativity.
As we are still studying, the projects that we get involved with are of various scales but most often they are academical or related to creating a concept for specific locations. We are personally very much interested in interdisciplinarity, so working with exhibition architecture or smaller-scale workshops is a great learning opportunity. However, bigger-scale objects that require working with the community, especially objects related to cultural activity, are also very important to us. Working on a master thesis allows us to explore that.
We think that the architect nowadays is in between. He/she must be a creator, a moderator, and a visionary. With so many in betweens that he/she/us stand in, it is necessary to always remember what the creation is for. It is naive to believe that we can change the world. We alone canno’t – but we can be an important part of society and create a future together with other disciplines.
We believe that various architecture competitions are an opportunity to explore further a variety of different topics as well as to experience an adventure. It is a great chance to work in different settings with your team and learn new skills from each other.
As mentioned before, competitions are an adventure. There are no failures, just new skills to learn and new challenges to explore with the tools of creativity.
Design a home with no artificial lighting
Design a comfortable and accessible home for the elderly in Portugal
Design a guest house and olive oil tasting room located in Portugal
Use architecture to create different emotional states
Design a safe and supportive space for children struggling with a terminal illness
Design a concept for affordable housing in Milan
Reimagine the workplace of the future, and design the new way of working
Design an iconic new skyscraper constructed from timber
Design a pavilion to exhibit rammed earth as a building material
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Design THE architect's t-shirt!
