Kaunas, Lithuania
Atelier Entropic develops a meandering complex that will serve as an e-commerce hub including retail units and a warehouse featuring a new roof motif in Kaunas, Lithuania.
The project is named “The Serpent” and encompasses a total of 70,400 square meters reimagining the standard big-box typology of conventional warehouse/retail programming and creating a continuous street of programs, with plazas, and green spaces, and public functions.
Other facilities will be dedicated to digital shopping, pick-up zones, and new forms of retail experience.
“The challenge was to rethink the suburban shopping typology, to an experience-oriented retail typology,” says Atelier Entropic.
The project is divided into two zones: the public program is designed on the front side, while logistic drop-off zones are placed on the backside.
The roof gently raises and lowers accommodating extra program requirements, whilst elegantly integrating itself into the surrounding landscape.
Through short-term drop-off points, the project adapts to future conditions of integrating new forms of autonomous personal transportation and public mobility.
The architectural design reinterprets the standard warehouse section into a new contemporary roof motif, which serves to maximize solar EV gain and allows diffused light into the interior, optimizing the environmental response.
A serrated retail promenade allows for every retail unit to maximize shop frontage and visibility.
The Serpent connects with the city center through a bridge, which continues through the project on an upper-level streetscape creating great access to an upper-level program, until reaching its terminus, in an interior plaza.
Project: The Serpent
Architects: Atelier Entropic
Design Team: Geoffrey Eberle, Magdalena Mróz, Alberto Rosal, and Wiktoria Kołakowska
Client: SBA-URBAN
Renderings: Fusao and Prompt, and Atelier Entopic
