Sixpoints / Lyn Rice Architects
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. More images and full architect’s description after the break.
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.
sophmoric?
your face is sophmoric, it like when this site post real drawings of simple urban planning schemes that make sense and yield complexities from an understandable diagram, people on this site are quick to judge. There is reason why architects such as MVRDV, SAANA and Ando are still building- projects that communicate beyond function vs form and about the play/theatre of the city and its inhabitants…
I would also put mansilla+tunon as well.
nao gostei
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The diagram helps to explain what would otherwise seem to be a random “aesthetic” architecture– the only way to understand how a project might be used / relate to the city is to approximate it. The diagram isn’t the architecture. What is the architecture looks to be rather interesting. Like the louvre, the entry/control point for the museum is a pavilion above ground, leading to a lower concourse where the visitor can choose their experience…different from a sequential loop… I think that the individual exhibition spaces look a bit large, a bit too empty boxish, but this I guess is to leave elbow room for the curators. Otherwise, a compelling set of images.
as all international competitions in Poland, this one was aswell controversial…and again Polish are not satysfied with the result…
why reasonable projects dont winn?
Lyn Rice Architects created interesting dialog with the old palace, respect the site what was crucial in this historic invironment
and once again I feel terribly ashamed, that polish politics and people are wise enough to make a an international competition, even if they are not satisfied.
In Slovakia (which is post – communistic as well and even slightly richer). politics just give the job to some friend of a friend and tell nothing to the public until it is not possible to cancel it. Even large projects for millions of Euros (like national football stadium) are made by some never-heard-of-before- architect (?)
It’s sad that Poland’s national identity and thousand-years-rich-history is expressed through the square boxes.
would you like to see Hadids bolb?..yeah there was submission, I expect you saw it on polish blogs aswell
the shape is not a matter – these comments were out of nothing in all this mess after the annoucement of results…
this project is beautiful
The interiors seem too eclectic and unrelated.
11:33 AM Dec 26th
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11:41 AM Dec 26th
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1:05 PM Dec 26th
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4:33 PM Dec 26th
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5:12 PM Dec 27th
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2:06 PM Jan 6th
El concurso de Polonia? , bueno, contra ESTO perdimos http://www.archdaily.com/44470/sixpoints-lyn-rice-architects/ :S
2:11 PM Jan 6th
RT @sick_boy: El concurso de Polonia? , bueno, contra ESTO perdimos http://bit.ly/8mBU1y :S // snif
2:33 PM Jan 23rd
"campus" literalmente "iluminados" http://www.archdaily.com/44470/sixpoints-lyn-rice-architects/