WŁADYSŁAW IV’s, GDYNIA

VOTIVE CHAPEL

The chapel was cre­ated as a vo­tive of­fer­ing for the con­struc­tion of the mo­tor­way by­pass. We tried to trans­pose the tra­di­tional model of the sa­cred into con­tem­po­rary forms and mean­ings, keep­ing the in­ter­est­ing in­ter­ac­tion with the mo­tor­way. We out­lined ar­bi­trary space lim­its us­ing the EPCH 420 en­ergy-ab­sorb­ing bar­ri­ers that form five off­set rings around the sa­cred cen­tre. Most of the el­e­ments used in the con­struc­tion had been re­cy­cled. The site is com­pletely open and ac­ces­si­ble. Per­haps the road­side chapel with an in­trigu­ing geom­e­try, seem­ingly aban­doned amongst flow­ery mead­ows, will prompt some­body to med­i­tate on the tran­sience of life?

HOUSE IN RĘKÓW

At the edge of a vil­lage there was a par­tially con­verted barn. We stud­ied with fas­ci­na­tion the un­planned mor­phol­ogy of the many out­build­ings build­ing a new, post-war iden­tity. We de­cided to fol­low this lead and ex­plore the sub­se­quent lay­ers and shapes. What emerged in the end was a poly­pore func­tion­ing in sym­bio­sis with the semi-wild land­scape. The colour of the nat­ural shin­gle, which pati­nates rather quickly, blended with the weath­ered clinker brick to cre­ate a new re­la­tion­ship. In this way, we at­tempted to over­write the ty­pol­ogy of the charm­ing Lower Sile­sian coun­try­side.

CENTREVILLE Drobnera Wrocław

 

The build­ing fills in the quar­ter bounded by Drob­n­era and Śru­towa Streets, di­rectly ad­ja­cent to a 19th cen­tury ten­e­ment house with rich eclec­tic decor. This part of the city cen­tre is heav­ily in­vested, has a clear ur­ban struc­ture with de­fined quar­ters of streets and squares. Cen­tre­ville com­ple­ments the his­tor­i­cal frontage of Drob­n­era Street, cru­cial for the Nado­drze dis­trict. As in the case of the neigh­bor­ing build­ing, the cor­ner of Drob­n­era and Śru­towa Streets is ac­cented with a flank­ing ac­cent. Two last storeys have been with­drawn and free space has been as­signed for res­i­dents’ view ter­races.

On the most ex­posed el­e­va­tions, solid brick was used, a ma­te­r­ial with both func­tional (re­sis­tance to ur­ban con­di­tions and pas­sage of time) and dec­o­ra­tive qual­i­ties, char­ac­ter­is­tic for this part of the city. The el­e­va­tion glit­ters with sev­eral shades of browns and grays.  The com­po­si­tion is com­ple­mented by large wooden win­dows and alu­minum bands around them. It is im­por­tant for con­tem­po­rary build­ings to fit into the ur­ban tis­sue with­out os­ten­ta­tion and pre­ten­sion to dom­i­nate.