The OVEN PAVILION is an interactive architectural sculpture and a localised public space created in 2024 for community gatherings, education, events and collective activities.  This dual work is a collaboration between the interdisciplinary artist Kamilė Krasauskaitė and the architects Ona Lozuraitytė and Petras Išora.

Seamlessly integrating artistic vision, functionality and its surrounding environment, the OVEN PAVILION consists of both a working stove and the pavilion that frames it, creating a dynamic social place and space. The OVEN PAVILION reintroduces a largely forgotten urban typology, offering the city a communal hearth, a deeply rooted archetype in human culture. By reviving the tradition of gathering around a fire, the project recalls its symbolic role in fostering warmth, protection and unity. The fusion of the pavilion’s architectural form with the elemental presence of the oven creates a hybrid meeting place, establishing a new spatial landmark in Vilnius, both a functional public resource and a sculptural intervention in the urban fabric.

This communal oven reclaims the primal act of gathering around a fire, rooting it in a contemporary setting. It serves as both a meeting point and a performative space, where the preparation of food becomes a shared act, and where the presence of fire binds people through warmth, conversation and collective experience.