Comprehensive Music School

Wrocław, Poland

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Comprehensive Music School

Wrocław, Poland

Firm

Maćków Pracownia Projektowa

Type

Educational › Nursery Elementary School

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2014

Photos

Patrycja Š»uczek (16)

The typology of the contemporary school by its nature doesn’t fit into the dense city. Looking for more extensive structures, quiet neighborhood and the proximity of residential areas. It's a completely different world than the one squeezed in downtown quarters. The apparent paradox location in the city center - between the busy street and the railway line explains the brand "Hunting" whose impact on the educational market is heavily supra-local. The second reason is the direct vicinity of the Wroclaw Philharmonic, who after moving to the National Forum of Music, leave its building, opening the potential for creating a unique complex.
The size of the plot, the need for proper sunlight classrooms and fulfillment of the strict guidelines of acoustic protection, pushed the decision to pile up of all functions in one homogeneous block with an open inner courtyard. The compact, geometric arrangement imposed a regular and disciplined disposition of functions - from the street, acoustic buffer for classrooms is a wide corridor, acting as both the main communication zone as well as recreation. The main structure of the building have been built autonomous small objects ("box in the box ') with independent walls and ceilings.
Pilsudski’s street was one of those prestigious, the importance of spatial hierarchy of the city is unique. Its structure has always been built on the principle of "weave" in the frontage of monumental public buildings. School tries to continue this idea of composition. Such "mending of the city", which disappeared.

Architecture: Maćków Pracownia Projektowa: Zbigniew Maćków (Chief Architect), Bartłomiej Witwicki (Leading Architect), Agata Kowalczyk, Eliasz Matuła, Zuzanna Wojtasiak, Bartosz Zieliński
Interior design: Maćków Pracownia Projektowa
Structures: GP Konstruktor
Installations: Elbes (IS), Janura (IE)
Visualizations: OMI Mirosław Kaczyński
Mockup: Konrad Horsztyński
Concractor engineer: WBI PZITB
General contractor: PB Inter-System
Bulding area: 2 715 m2
Usable area: 11 283 m2
Total area: 14 693 m2
Capacity: 43 480 m3
Project: 2010
Implementation: 2014
Photos: Maciej Lulko