COQUI MALACHOWSKA COQUI

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MOMA WARSAW

Town squa­re and park to the Muse­um of Modern Art in War­saw

Loca­ti­on: War­saw, Pol­and
Cli­ent: City of War­saw
Com­pe­ti­ti­on: Inter­na­tio­nal open com­pe­ti­ti­on (102 par­ti­ci­pan­ts) — hono­rable men­ti­on
Year: 2007
Archi­tec­tu­re: Ken­go Kuma, Ingarden&Ewy archi­tek­ci

To bring the cul­tu­ral axe into being we open up the com­plex of the Muse­um of Modern Art and it’s com­mer­cial part phy­si­cal­ly, what is also an expres­si­on of the men­tal atti­tu­de the muse­um aut­ho­ri­ties sta­ted. By this the Muse­um of Modern Art and the com­mer­cial part get a pre­fe­ren­ti­al adress and ent­rance at this new artery (cul­tu­ral axe) and beco­me an inte­gral part of the public life of the city cen­ter. This incis­i­on is also the most important exam­p­le of a mul­ti­face­ted and cha­rac­te­ristic fea­ture of the buil­ding – the amal­ga­ma­ti­on of spaces in- and out­side of the buil­ding. 

TREES ARRAN­GE­MENT SCHE­ME:

The high varie­ty of space dis­po­si­ti­ons to the free­space (e.g. roof ter­race, log­gia, bal­c­o­ny, cour­ty­ard, open and roofed pas­sa­ges, ter­races) expres­ses the open atti­tu­de and what’s even more important gene­ra­tes a high fle­xi­bi­li­ty of use for dif­fe­rent occa­si­ons and future deve­lo­p­ments. This way the user her/himself is able to gene­ra­te dif­fe­rent space con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons. In the urban cho­reo­gra­phie the sequence of the Muse­um of Modern Art is the initia­ti­on pro­cess of the „axe of cul­tu­re“ as a future con­ti­nu­um of urban spaces bet­ween the crossing of Swie­to­krzys­ka and Mars­zal­kows­ka street and the Ron­do PKO

THE MUSE­UM GAR­DEN

The muse­um gar­den in the north is an open invi­ting cont­act zone (street gal­lery, infor­ma­ti­on desk, didac­tic gar­den, art play­ground) that attracts the city citi­zens to get into cont­act with Art and it’s varie­ties. Insi­de this city gar­den reve­als the con­tro­ver­si­al aspect of art reinter­pre­ting the hight distance to the palace of cul­tu­re by ter­races that expo­se the dif­fe­rence of hight, howe­ver in a way using it for it’s on pur­po­ses. The obe­lisk at the hig­hest ter­race left at it’s ori­gi­nal place, not expo­sed, but hid­den in a bosk and set under­wa­ter. The gar­den ter­races are negle­c­ting the ori­en­ta­ti­on of the palace. They are used for out­door exhi­bi­ti­ons and recrea­ti­on. The lar­gest low ter­race lays as a car­pet in front of the muse­um as part of the cul­tu­ral axe, cold should­e­ring the palace.

THE CITY SQUA­RE

Less repre­sen­ta­ti­ve than enter­tai­ning, less domi­na­ting than ser­ving, less mono­func­tion­al than for mul­ti­pur­po­se use. The­se are the new para­me­ters of the squa­re that is still cal­led Plac Defi­lad. The edge of the squa­re will be acti­va­ted by new public uses (shops, restau­rants, public ser­vices). The lar­ge tri­bu­ne and the stairs pro­vi­de places for for­mal as well as infor­mal per­for­man­ces. Lar­ge public ter­races at trick foun­ta­ins and a water tablet offer attrac­ti­ve places for stay­ing.

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