Designed by Łukasz Iwan, the educational center is devoted to the youth of Praga in Warsaw, Poland. The fundamental assumption of the project is to integrate the building with the adjacent elementary school to create a database to develop talent among young people. More images and architects’ description after the break.
The most challenging part of the design was blending the building into adjacent, late XIX century rental houses; buildings that are modest in detail, but manifesting the characteristics of inner-city tenements. According to historical research, the plot before the war was occupied by a portal of which only remains are present today. Lack of documentation forced the designer not to rebuild the gate, or make an imitation of it but to propose a new structure making note of the previous one.
