The parcel of present Solidarnosci Square used to be a presentable city quarter of dense development before the damages of the Second World War.
As a result of demolition, the previously built-up quarter merged into surrounding openings, creating a large undefined void in the cityscape.
These two contrary traditions – a built-up quarter and a plaza – became a starting point of the project, which attempts to blend the advantages of both.
The idea of the National Museum building arose together with the spatial concept of the entirety. As a natural consequence of the primary assumptions, major part of the volume has been hidden underground. Spatial arrangement initiated by the overground building part has been fulfilled with an elevation, which encloses the quarter and creates an amphitheatrical space, well sheltered from the traffic.
The parcel of present Solidarnosci Square used to be a presentable city quarter of dense development before the damages of the Second World War.
As a result of demolition, the previously built-up quarter merged into surrounding openings, creating a large undefined void in the cityscape.
These two contrary traditions – a built-up quarter and a plaza – became a starting point of the project, which attempts to blend the advantages of both.
The idea of the National Museum building arose together with the spatial concept of the entirety. As a natural consequence of the primary assumptions, major part of the volume has been hidden underground. Spatial arrangement initiated by the overground building part has been fulfilled with an elevation, which encloses the quarter and creates an amphitheatrical space, well sheltered from the traffic.
The parcel of present Solidarnosci Square used to be a presentable city quarter of dense development before the damages of the Second World War.
As a result of demolition, the previously built-up quarter merged into surrounding openings, creating a large undefined void in the cityscape.
These two contrary traditions – a built-up quarter and a plaza – became a starting point of the project, which attempts to blend the advantages of both.
The idea of the National Museum building arose together with the spatial concept of the entirety. As a natural consequence of the primary assumptions, major part of the volume has been hidden underground. Spatial arrangement initiated by the overground building part has been fulfilled with an elevation, which encloses the quarter and creates an amphitheatrical space, well sheltered from the traffic.
| name: | national museum in szczecin |
| author: | robert konieczny |
| katarzyna furgalińska | |
| dorota żurek |
| authorial collaboration: | michał lisiński |
| collaboration: | aleksandra stolecka |
| piotr tokarski | |
| adam radzimski | |
| joanna biedna | |
| magdalena adamczak | |
| barbara janowska | |
| stanisław młyński |
| structural engineering: | jan głuszyński |
| kornel szyndler | |
| installations: | cegroup |
| client: | national museum in szczecin |
| site area: | 9577m2 |
| usable floor area: | 1913m2 |
| volume: | 7870m3 |
| project: | 2009 |
| construction: | 2012-2016 |
| publications: | architektura murator 04 2016 |
świat architektury 05 2012
iakov chernikhov international prize 10 2011
architektura murator 03 2010
| awards: | competition for dialogue centre in szczecin |
– I award 2009
polish architecture plebiscite award 2009
| exhibitions: | logic of space, nowy sącz 2011 |
architecture week, prague 2010
kwk promes’ exhibition, ostrava 2009