MUSEUM OF POLISH HISTORY COMPETITION - Six Points

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MUSEUM OF POLISH HISTORY COMPETITION - Six Points

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Type

Cultural › Gallery Cultural Center Museum
Educational › Library
Landscape + Planning › Public Park

SIZE

300,000 sqft - 500,000 sqft

BUDGET

$100M +

LRA's competition entry for a new 321,000sf, $140m Museum of
Polish History campus, Sixpoints, includes extensive permanent &
temporary galleries, academic & lecture mini-tower, bookstore &
gift shop, indoor/outdoor cafes, and administrative/observation tower
overlooking the dramatic Warszawska Scarp greenbelt. The site is
situated adjacent to the historic Ujazdow Castle in central Warsaw, and
LRA articulated the six major program elements in discrete
architectural elements that reduce the visible massing of the project
and that each have a specific character and access. These pavilions
radiate out from and define an indoor/outdoor public Forum, creating a
vibrant, active museum center - a new hub of cultural and educational
activity and a common point that connects all parts of the MHP. The
Six Pavilions are: (1) Entry Park Pavilion with sloped, exterior
amphitheater roof, (2) Rock+Light Permanent Exhibitions Pavilion with
monitor skylights, (3) Research/Academic + Administrative Tower
Pavilion with indoor/outdoor café and observation deck, (4) Split-Level
Permanent Exhibitions Pavilion with adjustable louvered skylight
ceiling, (5) Cantilevered Temporary Exhibitions Gallery with landscaped
Scarp viewing roof, and the (6) Education Pavilion with its foyer and
audience hall open to the park and Outdoor Forum. The Outdoor Forum
allows the Park to flow into the MHP and creates a sense of place
within the Park.Eight large sky oculi situated between the
Indoor and Outdoor Forums provide views and daylight to the major
public spaces. Diffused exhibition gallery lighting for the permanent
collection enters a series of both monitor skylights and adjustable
louver skylights (creating lighting characteristics similar to
Dia:Beacon), and in the Cantilevered Temporary Exhibitions Gallery
which pushes south over the Scarp's edge, through a field of overhead
lighting cells terminating with a panoramic, deep-framed view of the
forested area below.LRA pushed programs down into the site not only
to reduce the scale of the complex, but also to reduce energy
consumption and to negotiate new connections between the Upper and
Lower Scarp levels. LRA maintains the Warszawska Scarp greenbelt and
expands the upper park land, thereby minimizing Upper Park level
traffic. Primary car and bus drop off is set at the Lower Scarp level
to take advantage of the site's natural sectional drop and allows
complete parking access without the use of extensive ramps.Lyn
Rice, principal with Astrid Lipka, associate principal
Benjamin Cadena, project designer
Andrew
Becker, Hae Won Cha, Jed Geiman, project team

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MUSEUM OF POLISH HISTORY COMPETITION - Six Points

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