Kiteboarding and Windsurfing Centre in Svencele

About object:

Kiteboarding and Windsurfing Centre on the ex-soviet-duck-farm site became an interactive platform for growing community over one summer season: yesterday it was a remote kite spot; today it is a container city representing a fragment of tomorrow’s Master plan that foresees the future harbour, houses and water sports activities. The master plan for the conversion of 30 ha farm to recreational village at the eastern coast of the Curonian lagoon was approved in 2008. The world financial crisis and the lack of optimism left no chances to start any of the ambitious developments at that time. Meanwhile, the team of architects generated an idea of how to test the planned urban structure’s success without enormous investments. They proposed a flexible portable house idea as the first step and an accelerator for the large future development.