Reclaiming Silence: A benedictine monastery in a forgotten Olympic site Part 2 Project 2025 Emilis Sergūnas Vilnius Academy of Arts | Lithuania This project reimagines a disused Olympic ski jump in Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte, France, as a contemplative and regenerative architectural landscape.Originally built for the 1968 Winter Games, the ski jump now stands as a modern ruin - a striking example of the “white elephant” phenomenon, where large-scale event infrastructure becomes obsolete and environmentally burdensome.Rather than restoring or commercializing the site, the proposal transforms it through the lens of Benedictine monastic values - silence, rhythm, subsistence, and respect for nature. A new timber ensemble is introduced, comprising a church, cloister, pilgrims’ dwellings, workshops, barn, and cheese-aging rooms. The ski jump itself is retained and reinterpreted as a vertical promenade for solitude and reflection.The project aims to offer an alternative regeneration model rooted in spiritual function, ecological balance, and social inclusion. Through minimal intervention, local materials, and careful integration with the terrain, the architecture becomes a medium of cultural healing - bridging landscape, memory, and human presence.This is not simply adaptive reuse; it is a spatial and ethical stance. The project challenges fast-paced tourism andextractive development, instead proposing a living architecture grounded in place, humility, and time. Tutor(s) Edmundas Jackus