Center of Cutural Iniciatives in Komorów

arch_it, 2019

type: competition project for a local activity centre

collaboration: Jakub Dunal, Nicole Kowalczuk, Adriana Sowa and Piotr Zybura

physical model: Jakub Dunal

responsibilities: designing architecture conception, designing landscape conception, drawing landscape plans,

drawing project layouts and elevations, making visualizations

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The project of the Centre for Cultural Initiatives in Komorów is an educational and meeting space for inhabitants. It envisions a permanent object with an elastic function and form, responding to the changing needs of users. A permanent value is the transparency of the object, and its integration with the outside and the surrounding vegetation. The adopted rectangular form of the mass adapts to the most important guidelines for the plot, which is reserving the old-growth forest located there. The trees within the contour of the building become part of the designed architecture, creating atriums.

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The necessary service functions have been included in the composition of the three blocks. These are the only solid elements in the ground floor zone. The mass of the roof structure covers the light functional part emphasizing the relation between empty and full volumes. The geometry of the roof reflects the layout of the interior. Each function located on the ground floor consists of four elements: the main activity zone, a separate back office, an individual outdoor space in the form of an atrium and a hall, which through numerous openings can be a continuation of all zones located on the first floor. The programme is complemented by an underground storey with rooms requiring no access to light and soundproofed spaces and an overground area used for additional functions such as an amphitheatre, apiary or educational garden.

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The open system allows for a free arrangement of functions in the planning stage and evolutionary changes. At the design stage, it is possible to take into account the specific needs and expectations of users. Adaptability allows the building's functions to develop in line with the changing demographic structure, the needs of all users, or changes resulting from general social processes.