Entry in the open International Design Competition for the World War II Museum in Gdansk, Poland, organized by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage together with the Government of Poland. The museum commemorates the war that began in 1939 with the German assault on Westerplatte, near Gdansk, and contains photographs, documents and artefacts from the period. Our proposal was submitted in the first stage of the competition and did not advance to the final stage.
The site, at the intersection of the Motlawa river and the Radunia canal, gives the rare opportunity for an urban building to be perceived at both the landscape scale and the more intimate scale of the street.
The concept treats the building as a billboard, a sign in the urban landscape. Its façade is composed of the combined letters M and W II, which are also reflected in the aerial view of the museum. The building was to be clad in perforated corten steel panels.
Viewing platforms at the highest point of the building afford views of Westerplatte, the place marking the beginning of World War II.
- team Voytek Gorczynski, Luke Andritsos, Melissa Mazik, Jan Pawlik, Maria Strulak
- model Jacek Szymoniak JS Models
- cg Tianyi Zhu, Jan Pawlik
- gross fl. area 14,675 m2