Uprising Museum extension in Góra Św. Anny

P2PA, 2022

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award: first place

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type: public use competition entry

collaboration: Aleksander Blicharski, Paweł Floryn, Łukasz Kaczmarek, Jakub Podgórski and Maciej Popławski

sketches: Paweł Floryn

model: Maciej Marszał
visualizations: VA Arts

responsibilities: designing architecture conception, designing landscape conception,

drawing landscape plans, drawing urban diagrams, drawing building layouts

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St. Anne’s Hill is a place of multi-level and multi-dimensional significance. It combines the beauty of the natural landscape of Opole Silesia and the complex history of its inhabitants.

The design concept coherently links these two realities by emphasizing both the natural and anthropogenic aspects. The aim of the project is to reflect the uprisings’ symbolism in a way that does not disrupt or dominate the surrounding landscape. Looking to the future, it becomes a place that integrates and builds identity-based space on the common history and natural wealth.

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​The designed facility enhances the qualities of the surrounding nature and emphasizes the importance of the historical House of the Poles. It approaches the immediate surroundings with due respect and harmonizes with the context. It allows for communion with the natural landscape and provides a space where the significance of the historic building can resonate.

​Looking down the hill, the new part of the building is almost invisible, gradually and gently emerging from the slope. The platforms sink into the greenery and descend with the natural hill which made it possible to introduce linear, distinctive illumination of their interiors. 

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​The building’s unique and inspiring character focuses on the natural and historical aspects. The building, with its open exterior structure, seems to connect directly with the greenery that flows between its openings and across its surfaces. Emerging from the meadow, the low walls made of natural, local limestone create a composition that refers to rural layouts and brings to mind the sites of possible historical events.