The document summarizes the design process for a new museum building located in a park in Warsaw, Poland. It discusses exploring the scale and volume of the building through models to frame it within the city. The design aims to create an "oasis" feeling by enclosing the park area with a wall to provide a unique experience separate from the noisy city. The building is planned as a long, narrow volume placed along the south wall to emphasize the park's long views and axis. Interior spaces will create spatial variety through changing heights, colors, materials, and lighting conditions while maintaining visual connections. The structure and climate systems are designed for two separately controlled areas.
1. P5 PRESENTATION
Marta Pabel
Museum of Contemporary Art in Warsaw
Introduction
Design brief
Process
Design solutions
Spatial organisation
Structure
Climate
Materials
Conclusions
9. Master plan for city center
Underlines Palace axis
No connection with the park (across the street)
10. Question 1
How to create in th epark - the feeling of intimacy and peacefulness without losing the enormous open space?
How to turn emptiness and experience of length and distance into quality?
Process
Exploring scale of the plot and palace by models
Exploring possible volume scale and shape
11. Frame in the city
The idea of oasis: enclosing a place in the city which provides completely different experience than can be found around
12. Step 1: enclosing the park with the wall
Exclusive experience, without interruptions, chaos and noise of the city.
Behind the wall - experience of discovery, mistery, curiosity.
13. Step 2: excavating the area of park
Connection to metro and the Old museum.
The idea of skipping the city.
Experience of isolation even stronger.
17. Exploring different location and shape of the museum builing
Conclusions:
- volume that will underline length
- that will not interfere with experiencing the distance
20. Placing the builing in the south wall
Visual connection with the Palace
Underlining the length by creating long volume
Detaching the volume from the wall to strenghten the experience of the wall
21. Question 3
How to introduce spatial variety in long and very narrow volume?
Exploring long perspective in the interiors
Experience of length in the interior or exterior?
28. Conclusions
What strenghtens the experience of length but also allows for spatial diversity: rhythm of repeating structural elements;
visual or movement axis through the changing space
29. Public space in front of museum
- common square with Palace of Culture
- on the axis
42. short exhibitions
reactions to political and cultural
events
lectures
festivals
researchers
students
artists
museum visitors
tourists
permanent collection
park/bistro/cafe/retail temporary exhibitions employees
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Circulation
Compartments can be open and closed separately
Accessibility gradation
