Gdańsk’s Academy of Arts has its recently renovated buildings scattered around the centre of the Oldtown.   The place at Podwale Przedmiejskie street would be ideal for students of fine arts, due to proximity to all

of them. It is set over a wide artery connecting outskirts with the midtown, thanks to which it is well communicated with the rest of the city. The Lower City is a mixture of old tenement houses with lower

class inhabitants and authority offices occupying historic edifices.

 

 

 

THE CONCEPT

Open to the heart of historical Gdańsk

 

The site itself brings numerous interesting possibilities. It gives a spectacular view on the most of red brick, gothic and renaissance historical buildings among picturesque rows of tenement houses, reconstructed after the II World War. Most of the important dominants however, are set to the north of the location.

The precious view was to be shared between all the habitants of the dormitory. For these reasons,

the northern elevation was fully covered with a skin of glass. I used a special glass with a possibility

of printing shapes and projecting images, that could be seen from the outside. The other parts, exposed

to narrow and less exceptional views, are mostly opaque, obviously not forgetting about sufficient insolation.