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MUSEUM
OF POLISH HISTORY
IN WARSAW
Warsaw - Polland
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Client: Museum of Polish History
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International competition.
Design Phases 1 and 2
This proposal is aimed to underline and enhance these features. The project, in its urban and landscape scale, is thus based on the following points:
- First of all (following the competition requirements), the functional and physical re-connection and mending between the northern and the southern part of the Jazdow Park, parts that are nowadays separated by the presence of Trasa Lazienkowska. The re-connection is realized by means of covering the road and creating continuity of soil to the green park;
-The re-connection of the south part of the project site with Łazienkowski Park through a pedestrian bridge above the Agrykola. Łazienkowski Park is an historical park which this project tends to integrate into a new valuable historical environmental and cultural circuit around the new MPH;
-The re-connection between the lowest and the highest levels of Scarpa Warszawska (the Vistula River Bank). This is made possible by the settlement of the interior and exterior public spaces belonging to the part of the building of the new museum realized nearby the Ujazdów Castle and which occupy the whole height of the slope of the Vistula River Bank;
-The creation of a connection between the public spaces of the new museum (the upper “Patio”) and the rooms in the basement of the Ujazdów Castle where the Center for Contemporary Art is placed; this direct link between the two museums increases and strengthen their cultural offer towards a public both interested in History and Art. The unity of the two institutions is enhanced by the pedestrian continuity of the space surrounding them, marked by the new outside flooring at the level of the Jazdow Park.
The new arrangement of the MPH wants to accomplish the idea of a linear path with a high environmental, ecological and cultural value which crosses all the town of Warsaw from north to south along the Vistula River.
This diffused museum network of architectures and historical spaces constitutes the reconstruction of the historical asset of this part of the town (badly deteriorated by the events of the last century) and an integral part of the new “museographical narration” which will characterize the new MPH, that is to say we can consider the surroundings as an open-air extension of the contents of the museum, a lively “open air gallery” of the architectural and urban history of Warsaw.
The visitors, the citizens, the researchers, the students or simply the tourists who will visit the area of Ujazdów Park and Łazienkowski Park will find a variety of occasions to widen their knowledge of both the polish history and the history of the town and the architecture of Warsawa.
All of them will realize how deeply the museographical path and the cultural landscape all around are related into the MPH general plan.
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