BRINGING SOME ORDER INTO CHAOS
The south of Warsaw is a chaotical neighbourhood with
different architecture styles, varying building heights and a big amount of
green areas that spread between them without any clearly defined shape and
order.
At some point it stopped beeing a dormitory and more
people started to settle there for good.A neccesity for a new city center with
office spaces and retail areas appeared.
The proposed form of the design would organize all
these factors.
ONE FOOTPRINT, THREE FUNCTIONS
Most of the space of the exhisting site is taken by a
shopping mall and it’s adjacent big parking areas.These retail functions mostly
have not appealing facades ( wich serve as
big ads to sell the products) and big flat unused roof areas.In this
case they would serve as a base for the whole complex and their potential would
be used to the maximum.
By extending the forrest that lies next to the site
,on top of this retail block and creating paths connecting the main surrounding
streets a new public park would be created.
The office spaces would be spread around this green
development in blocks with different heights wich would depend on the next
surrounding neighbour.
This would create a
connection with the old housings and
make the whole district more consitent and compact.