Radvila Palace Competition / Vilnius, Lithuania / 2021 / Status: Competition Entry

A 1653 medal renders the Radvila Palace as a symmetrical complex of five three-story pavilions connected by four two-story wings. While an image of the completed palace circulated in objects like the medal, the southern pavilion was never built. We took the fundamental incompleteness of the palace as a generative opportunity to find “atrasta prarasta dalis,” or “the discovered missing piece.” Our architectural motivation was to link the northern and southern pavilions with two contemporary wings that complete the “U” shape of the complex. This proposal creates a series of novel linkages that better connect the museum to the city, its users, and itself.