AoM

Academy of Music
location: Bydgoszcz
project: 2016, competition entry 

architect:
HS99, Koszalin 
project team:
konrad garbowski, oliwia stachowska, wojciech slupczynski, jacek moczala, adam kulesza
model:
tomasz kudelski
acoustic:
Muller-BBM Berlin

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ZPSM

Warsaw Music School
location: Warszawa
project: 2015, competition entry 

architect: 
HS99, Koszalin 
project team: 
konrad garbowski, oliwia stachowska, wojciech slupczynski, jacek moczala, adam kulesza
model: 
tomasz kudelski
acoustic: 
Muller-BBM Berlin

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MNK

National Museum Krakow
location: Krakow
project: competition entry, 3rd Prize, 2015 

Cultural facilities should unite, not divide. This concept attempts to unite around a common history and collective memory, of which the National Museum in Krakow is one of the most important depositories, without whose activity “poor memory perpetuates the legends”.

The uniqueness of the museum depends not only on the uniqueness of the exhibitions but also the uniqueness of the space in which the exhibitions are presented. The balance between neutrality of environment for exhibits and its characteristic features is one of the basic problems of not only modern museums. The indissoluble connection of exhibitions, the building of the museum and the city is essential if the memory of the visit is to survive.

The site has been divided into two main bodies: north and south. The historic (southern) one hosts all of the features associated with the Museum, such as a bar, bookstore, library, cinema room, or cloakrooms and toilets located below the entrance level. The northern part contains all groups of premises connected with the exhibitions.

Between these two bodies, a central space was located which forms a huge museum lobby illuminated from the top. This is a very important part of the site, which is responsible not only for the impressions it gives the visitors but first and foremost is the traffic hub, the starting point of the journey around the exhibition area. This lobby grants access to all exhibition halls, both permanent and temporary. 

The main hall of regular shape, great height, soft and diffused lighting is not only the starting point of all exhibition exploration routes but also a space, which is to introduce the public to an atmosphere of uniqueness. In formal terms, the hall interprets the theme of the panels repeated several times in the historical part of the building. This theme unites the old and the new part of the museum.

A single-space main hall for temporary exhibitions is completely devoid of supports, providing virtually unlimited possibilities for display. 

Permanent exhibition rooms have been designed on two top floors, dividing the exhibition space into smaller modules, which due to the interrelations are arranged in a logical and uninterrupted string of exhibitions, forming a loop. The rooms located on the top floor have been illuminated with natural light through skylights, thus upholding the historical continuity of exhibition spaces of the National Museum in Krakow. 

architect: 
HS99, Koszalin 
project team: 
katarzyna bartel, oliwia stachowska, adam kulesza, konrad garbowski, wojciech slupczynski, arkadiusz laskowski, ewelina przeworska, tomasz czolowski, 
status: 
competition entry 

Building Footprint: 6123,8 m2
Net Floor Area: 27856,6 m2
Gross Floor Area: 34163,2 m2
Volume:  182503,3 m3  

Publications:
Konkurs, Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, Arch 2/2016  

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Mediatheque

Mediatheque 
location: Pila
project: 2014, competition, mention

architect: 
HS99, Koszalin
project team:
konrad garbowski, wojciech slupczynski, jacek moczala, adam kulesza
status: 
concept design 

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NRC

Newton Research Center
location: Opole
project: 2011, competition entry, 3rd Prize

With its location, the new building “Newton” emphasizes the rhythm determined on the campus by the existing buildings, but also composes an internal courtyard and closes it with respect to the viewing axis. From the west, the building is aligned with a very clear line of development. This raised fragment of the facility is not so much an architectural culmination of the building as a highlighting of this corner of the whole campus. 

The building proposes an introspective arrangement, creating its own inner world on the basis of two different atriums, relative to each other. The atrium in this zone is orderly and regular, with a paved area where you’ll find the summer café tables. The atrium located in the zone of controlled library access is a garden and can serve as a summer reading space.

The individual functional blocks are embedded in a common space; a space for communication, recreation, social meetings, exhibitions and, discussions. The basic functions of this facility (canteen, auditoriums and library) are located in the block which reaches up to uncover the part of the building dedicated to the administration and staff. 

The method of moving around the building has an element of choice. The library, which is the culmination of form and the upper levels of the auditorium can be reached by gentle ramps provided with attractive spaces for working, reading and meetings. You can also choose the horizontal path (along the auditoriums), accompanied by the exhibitions.

The individual areas of the building are bonded to each other by identical floor, ceiling, perforated walls. This ensures the integrity of the multi-function building. The only formal differences are the different zoning of the atriums and wooden cladding separating the auditorium part – the heart of the building. 

The façades reflect the introverted architectural concept. Full glazing, besides the atriums is found only in the administrative part, near the entrance and in the library, at the furthest end of the entire composition, connecting the building with extensive views. The bands of walls, climbing along with ramps are perforated with regularly spaced holes. The perforation was made in the lining of thin-walled reinforced concrete prefabricated elements made of tight, high quality concrete, hung on the support structure of the building. 

architect: 
HS99, Koszalin
project team: 
gall podlaszewski, wojciech slupczynski, adam kulesza, jacek moczala 
status:
concept design

Publications:   

Wettbewerbe Aktuell 11/2011 

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PSG

PSG Company Headquarters
location: Gdansk, ul. Walowa
project: 2011, competition entry, 2nd Prize

Przemiana wizerunku terenów Gazowni polegać ma na wyłonieniu resztek logiki w obecnym zagospodarowaniu i uczytelnienie go poprzez odpowiednią lokalizację nowych elementów. Zasadnicza zmiana polega na wyznaczeniu strefy otwartej, która rozpoczynać się będzie przy ul. Wałowej pomiędzy istniejącymi budynkami Gazowni i Gaz-Systemu, następnie biec w kierunku ul. Podstocznej, po czym przybierając kierunek osi widokowej dotrzeć do ciągu pieszego wzdłuż ulicy Nowowałowej. W tej otwartej strefie zlokalizowane są dwa atrakcyjne, zabytkowe budynki przy ul. Podstocznej, a przy Wałowej znajdzie swe miejsce nowo projektowany budynek biurowy. Jego lokalizację uzasadnia nowa ranga ul. Wałowej, łączącej dwa duże centra muzealne. Strefa ta wysadzana drzewami owocowymi (darmowe wycinki drzewostanu w przypadku konieczności lokalizacji nowego obiektu) w całości otwarta jest dla ruchu pieszego i rowerowego. Obydwa dłuższe boki strefy oddzielone są od innych, zamkniętych części Gazowni i Gaz-Systemu alejami spacerowymi. W nasadzeniach zaproponowano aplikacje ? tereny niezadrzewione.

Pozostałe tereny Gazowni i Gaz-Systemu zostały podzielone na cztery, zamknięte, okolone żywopłotami części. Kryją one strefy techniczne. Nowe zagospodarowanie polega na sanacji budynków i otoczenia oraz na podkreśleniu porządku nowymi elementami takimi jak chodniki, trawniki i drzewa.

Proponowane zagospodarowanie terenu wykorzystuje motywy związane z tradycją miejsca. Nowo projektowany budynek biurowy powstanie w oparciu o okrąg byłej wieży gazowej. Nadal dla tego obszaru dominantą i głównym elementem identyfikacyjnym pozostanie rusztowanie wieży gazowej. Podświetlona w nocy widoczna będzie z dużej odległości.

Odpowiedzią na dużą ilość miejsc parkingowych jest lokalizacja w budynku biurowym zewnętrznego parkingu otwartego, którego organizacja polega na wykorzystaniu do parkowania stale wznoszącej się rampy. 

Nowoprojektowany budynek proponuje układ ekstrawertyczny, komunikuje się z Miastem całym swoim obwodem. Ten czterokondygnacyjny budynek zakomponowany jest w oparciu o cztery koncentryczne pierścienie oraz dziedziniec wypełniony spiralą stale wnoszącej się rampy parkingu. Pierwszy pierścień to podwójna fasada. Kryje ona urządzenia do ochrony przeciwsłonecznej i pomosty do mycia. Odpowiada on nie tylko za wizerunek obiektu, ale również za mikroklimat w jego wnętrzu. Drugi pierścień zawiera pokoje biurowe. Wydzielono w nim też po cztery na kondygnację poszerzenia korytarzy (hole). Trzeci pierścień to korytarz, z którego zawsze istnieją dwa kierunki ewakuacji. Czwarty pierścień wypełniają pomieszczenia pomocnicze, poczekalnie, klatki schodowe, trzony dźwigowe, szachty instalacyjne. Dziedziniec zaprojektowano jako wielopoziomowy parking otwarty organizowany jako szeroka, stale wspinająca się wstęga rampy. Pod względem ilości miejsc w parkingu budynek jest samowystarczalny.

architect: 
HS99, Koszalin 
project team: 
jacek moczala, adam kulesza, wojciech slupczynski 
status: 
competition 

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City Hall

Bydgoszcz City Hall and Market Square
location: Bydgoszcz
project: 2009, competition entry, mention

The square of the Old Market was divided into two areas. The outer area located directly at the fronts of the tenements is the road traffic and pedestrian traffic area. The second area constitutes an internal square accessible to pedestrians only. The two areas were made different as regards the type of the flooring. Additionally, two main directions of pedestrian communication were accented in the internal area of the square, which divide the Old Market into three triangles with various functions. The triangle sides were delineated with changes in the flooring layout and light belts.

The five-floor Town Hall including the Museum is higher than the surrounding buildings, in compliance with the centuries-old tradition of forming the urban space. The Town Hall and the Museum were designed in one building; however, they constitute separate facilities which may function fully independently from each other.

The Town Hall was extended by creating, between the new and old parts, a courtyard with the proportion of a whole quarter. Owing to two joints, the new part of the Town Hall constitutes an intermediate form between a detached facility and an element of a compact quarter settlement.

The courtyard is accessible through two arcades ? vestibules formed by drawing aside three fundamental elements of the basement of the new Town Hall. Additionally, owing to the raising of the courtyard floor in relation to the Old Town Market, the rank of this public space grew.

A large entrance hall constitutes the main element of the ground floor. It is accessible from both vestibule arcades. There, via lifts and wide stairs, the applicants of the Municipality Office and visitors to the Museum commence their visit to the facility.

A three-floor Forum is located directly over the entrance hall. This is an internal square, which owing to its elevation on the piano nobile overlooks through the facade perforation the Old Town and the courtyard. This prestigious space constitutes the foyer of the meeting halls.

The Museum was located on the last floor of this newly designed building. It can be accessed from the internal Forum: an extension of the Old Market, which adds a third dimension to this most important public space in the city. Owing to such a location of the Museum, it becomes a culminating point of the Old Town and one of its tourist attractions.

The composition of the square based on triangles is continued in the way in which the facades are formed. In the facades, vertical divisions are accented, which are emphasized through alternating stripes each 50cm wide. The basic elements for the facades are stone slabs from sandstone with a cleaved structure of the stone face, as well as glass stripes in aluminum profiles.

The two-floor facades of the passages which surround the fine courtyard from three sides are made from glass and are without any profiles. The renovated historic facade of the former Jesuit College constitutes the chief element of the newly created courtyard. The remaining facades are neutral in relation to this facade and constitute a kind of a frame for this monument.

architect:
HS99, Koszalin 
design team:
Agnieszka Desowska, Lukasz Pisarek, Adam Kulesza  

Publications: 

1. Bydgoskie Marzenia o Ikonie, AiB, 11/2009

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Neo

University of Gdansk, Rector’s Office and Faculty of Neophilology
location: Gdansk, Wita Stwosza St. 
project: 2008, competition entry

Nowo projektowany obiekt stanowić ma dominantę dla całego układu urbanistycznego jakim jest campus i otaczająca go zabudowa. Ten silny znak w przestrzeni, z racji swej narożnikowej lokalizacji, wysokości i zwartej kompozycji ma stanowić element identyfikujący cały Uniwersytet. Szczególne usytuowanie, wyróżniające go z układu urbanistycznego również dwoma placami (Rektorskim i Studenckim), zwarta w porównaniu z innymi obiektami bryła i charakterystyczna forma sprawiają, że budynek ten nawiązuje raczej dialog z Biblioteką Uniwersytecką (a w szerszym kontekście również z Halą Oliwii) niż z przyległymi obiektami. 

Dwa place poprzedzają obiekt. Pierwszy – Rektorski znalazł swe miejsce pomiędzy projektowanym budynkiem a ul. Bażyńskiego. To stąd swoje wizyty rozpoczynać będą oficjalni goście i delegacje. Plac ten stanowi również podjazd dla VIP-ów. Podjazd, z którego poprzez krytą rampę dostępny jest garaż podziemny. Drugi plac – Studencki  – łączy obiekt z terenami campusu. Wyraźnie obniżony w stosunku do poziomu ul. Wita Stwosza i ograniczony budynkami sąsiednich wydziałów ma bardziej kameralny i mniej oficjalny charakter. Obydwa place obramowane są schodami terenowymi wykorzystującymi różnice poziomów budynku i strefy parkingowej.

W budynku wyróżnione są dwie zasadnicze strefy (podział ten odzwierciedlają również fasady) – pierwszą – otwartą o prawie nieograniczonej dostępności wypełniają pomieszczenia ogólne takie jak sale audytoryjne i związane z nimi hole, czytelnia, bufet i kawiarnia, etc. Druga strefa, pięciokondygnacyjna wypełniona jest pomieszczeniami poszczególnych katedr Wydziału Neofilologii (na czterech kondygnacjach) oraz położonym na najwyższej kondygnacji rektoracie z towarzyszącymi mu biurami.

architekt: 
HS99 Herman i Smierzewski, Koszalin
project team: 
pawel skora, adam kulesza 
status: 
competition entry 

Net Floor Area: 18521,3 m2  
Gross Floor Area: 20130,3 m2 

Publications:  

HS99 – niematerialne, Archivolta 4(44)/2009

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MSN

Museum of Contemporary Art
location: Wroclaw
project: 2008, competition entry

Budynek Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej stara się kontynuować przerwaną przez Drugą Wojnę Światową logikę kwartału. Zarówno linie zabudowy jak i skala obiektu, jego wysokość w stosunku do zespołu klasztornego mieszczącego w sobie Muzeum Architektury, pozwalają na harmonijne uzupełnienie dawnego kwartału. 

Wejście do budynku zlokalizowano od strony głównej ulicy Nowego Miasta (Purkiniego), analogicznie jak wejście do Panoramy Racławickiej i Muzeum Narodowego.

Parter i piętro budynku wycofano ukośnie w stosunku do ulicy odsłaniając widok na Panoramę Racławicką i park. Tak powstały plac ?zadaszono? ostatnią kondygnacją zawierającą sale wystawowe.

Nadziemną część budynku podzielono na trzy naprzemienne, ułożone w pionie strefy: introwertyczne parter i kondygnacja wystawowa, rozdzielono ekstrawertyczną drugą kondygnacją. Ta otwarta ze wszystkich stron na Miasto przestrzeń wypełniona pomieszczeniami publicznymi (sala audytoryjna, wielofunkcyjne sale wystawowe, pomieszczenia klubowe, hol kasowy) stanowi platformę mogącą funkcjonować niezależnie od sal wystawowych. To tu skupia się życie publiczne budynku. Przestrzeń ta w największym stopniu odpowiedzialna jest za komunikację Miasta z Muzeum i Muzeum z Miastem.

W opozycji do otwartości przestrzeni piętra zakomponowano kondygnację z salami wystawowymi. Kondygnacja swoimi dużymi, jednoprzestrzennymi, pozbawionymi podpór salami wystawowymi otwiera się na sztukę. Lokalizacja sal wystawowych na najwyższej kondygnacji i ich zblokowanie pozwoli na pełniejsze ich wykorzystanie, na większą ilość wariacji aranżacji. Będzie to miało szczególne znaczenie przy organizacji dużych wystaw.

architect: 
HS99 Herman i Smierzewski, Koszalin
project team: 
jacek moczała, kuba florek, anita skalska, wojciech słupczynski, adam kulesza, paweł skóra 
status: 
competition entry 

Net Floor Area: 19984,0 m2

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KCIK

Krajowe Centrum Informatyki Kwantowej
location: Gdansk, Wita Stwosza St.
project: 2007, competition entry, 1st Prize
design: 2007-09

The main urban planning rule makes a reference to the original concept from 1970s. It adds the Central Square: a park on the plan of an elongated rectangle. This central green space has its begginings in a pond planned in the 1970s and stretches parallel to the streets of Wita Stwosza and Grunwaldzka. Its width maps out a distance between the existing facilities. 

The land, which is adjacent to the main communications axis of the University, forms the Faculty Square. From there, the current building of the Faculty is available (the authors: architect W. Benedyk and architect S. Niewiadomski). There, the new computer science building was placed. This surfaced square, which was designed in an opposition to the Central Square, merges both facilities and maps out the space, which is an easy for identification, and which focuses the live of the Faculty. The laboratory part was placed in this square (similarly to the existing structure). The square closes the arm positioned perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis running through the buildings of the Faculty. 

The difference of the levels of land allows one to create the natural boundaries of the Faculty Square, and gives an access to the facility from different levels: a different level from the side of the campus (the Faculty Square), and a different level from the side of the car parks that continue the already existing car park complex. The communications arrangement results from a logical continuation of the existing communications system. 

Three fundamental elements make up the block of the facility. The first one, which constitutes a typological continuation of the existing building, includes above of all teaching rooms. The second one, which is placed perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of both buildings (closing the Faculty Square space), houses lecture halls and the Quantum Centre. The third element is the laboratories closed in an almost standalone block (connected with the main building only via the ground floor), which is intentionally distinguished in formal terms. 

A two-storey entrance hall which joins not only the arms of building but also the levels of entrances leading to it, was designed between the two first elements. A lecture hall connected with a café adjoins this space. This three-storey hall is the continuation of the Faculty Square. The hall which precedes the Quantum Centre is situated above it. The view from it extends onto the whole Faculty Square. 

The facades of the Computer Science Faculty Building express the structure of the building accepted, including the functional structure. Regular, two-layered, prefabricated ferroconcrete and glass facades run around the building. The inside layer constitutes an element of the constructional system. Repeated window plots, which are withdrawn in the direction of the interior of building, are shaded against the sun in a natural manner. The laboratory section is faced with black laminated tempered glass.  

architect: 
HS99 Herman i Smierzewski, Koszalin
project team: 
rafal sobieraj, kuba florek, anita skalska, pawel skora, adam kulesza 
status: 
construction deleted 

Building Footprint: 3 689,5 m2 
Net Floor Area: 9 894,8 m2  
Gross Floor Area: 12 246,5 m2 
Volume: 53 703,25 m3  

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SM

Silesian Museum
location: Katowice
project: 2006, competition, mention

In opposition to the fragmented overground structure of the buildings of the mine, the block of the museum is a homogenous form merging all its functional parts. A standarized height and a standardized level of the foundation constitute the counterpoint for the diversity of the levels and the heights of the individual historic facilities. 

An outside space contained between the floor in front of the museum and the cantilever roof is the most characteristic element which identifies and organizes the urban planning structure of this place. This space is the Museum Forum, which is at the same time a fragment of the traffic route and an outside museum exhibition for all the devices and historic and industrial facilities which were dismantled from the remaining buildings in the District. Therefore, this new building will include the pieces of all the remaining buildings of the mine. The following renovated historic facilities: Warszawa mineshaft, an engine room building and a clothes warehouse are included in this space. The “corridors” between the space of former mine and the urban space were used to locate the entrance to the individual parts of the MainBuilding. They constitute a communications space and an outside exposition area. They ensure a contact between the town and the area of the former mine (the District of Museums). 

The programme of the museum was arranged in three functional modules. Two of them include exhibition rooms and third one includes a complex of rooms connected with conference and administrative functions. These modules were merged with a technical storey, which was concealed in the thickness of the roof and two underground storeys to be used for the shipment of showpieces, for car parks as well as storage and technical facilities rooms. 

The facades of the museum were designed from glass channel sections, which constitute the wall facing on certain fragments. In the joints between the modules, they make up a transparent glass facade. This material contrasts with the brick of the historic facilities and emphasizes their authenticity. The smoothness of the facades, concealing of the structure in the Main Edifice building serves to highlight the industrial beauty of Warszawa and Bartosz  mineshafts as well as of the showpieces collected in the Forum and in the “corridors”. 

It is only the temporary exhibition room, as one which is visited the most frequently, which was located on the ground floor (it was preceded by an extensive foyer). Only those rooms which are to be used to exhibit painting works were located under the roof to provide the exhibition with a day light. The remaining rooms were located on the first floor. All the rooms were centred on the two sides of the main hall, which was designed as a complex of galleries surrounding the entrance patio. Its characteristic and dominating element is “Warszawa” mineshaft, which serves as an identification of the museum and previously the mine. The rooms painting works illuminated from above with daylight. 

architect: 
HS99 Herman i Smierzewski, Koszalin
project team: 
agnieszka desowska, magda erycińska, kuba florek, lukasz gąska, adam kulesza, lukasz pisarek, rafał sobieraj, paweł skóra , wojciech słupczyński, wojciech subalski 
status: 
concept design

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CC

Chopin Centre
location: Warszawa, Tamka St. 
project: 2006, competition, mention

The building of the Centre was designed as the last frontage element of Tamka Street before the Ostrogski Palace. Its dimensions were adapted to the dimensions of the existing tenement houses located in this street.

Two equivalent entrances to the building were designed. The first one is from Ordynacka Street and the second one from Tamka Street. The reception area was located at the upper entrance in the direct neighbourhood of the stairway leading to the institutions situated in the centre. This duality of the access to the facility is the result of the land formation and the communications layout.

From the side of Ordynacka Street, the building line was preserved running around the contour of the house which no longer exists here. The four-storey jutty constitutes not only a roof above the entrance to the building and above the café garden; it also makes the facility levelled with the neighbouring tenement house; the building hides its blank gable wall and calms down the tectonics of the frontage.

A decision was made to reconstruct the facade of Alojzy Anasiński?s tenement house (which no longer exists these days) from the side of Tamka Street in order to fulfill the minimum of the conservator?s recommendations. The composition of this historical elevation contributed to the design of the elevation of the whole Chopinowski Centre. The widths of the full and window (3/4) modules were transferred onto the remaining completely glazed-in elevations of the additional part.

The northern facade of Anasiński?s tenement house was cast in concrete with all its historical details, in the form of prefabricated elements modulated according to the order of the tenement house (3/4). The joints between the prefabs continue in the divisions of the glass facade of the whole building. The colours of the concrete are adapted to the colours of the glass. The windowpanes with a three-layered structure, which are point-fixed from the inside, are partly etched. The different transparency levels were used in the composition of the facades and also as sun protection. The selected window elements open by moving them; the purpose of this is to create the composition of the elevation which is subject to continuous changes.

The offices of the institutions are located on the upper floors and are made accessible in a controlled manner. The public functions such as a library, a bookshop, an exhibition hall and catering facilities are located on the storeys which are situated between the levels of Tamka and Ordynacka streets; they are filled from both of these levels. This generally accessible public space is fastened with one-flight stairs designed differently as compared with the stairwell which leads to the offices. The more the public storeys are availiable the more the office floors are separated.

architect:
HS99 Herman i Smierzewski, Koszalin

 Publications:
HS99 –  niematerialne, Archivolta 4(44)/2009

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