Europa E11 Polska Podskarbińska obrady polskiego jury 2011.09.30 – 2011.10.01 - ocena pracy BR 711 BROCHETTE

Autorzy pracy:

Jordi Peralta Fernandez, Architekt (ES), Joan Caba Roset, Architekt (ES),

Marta Masferrer Juliol, Architekt (ES), Miguel Jorge Perea Solano, Architekt (ES)

The authors of this project are trying to develop a new spatial configuration in order to serve and symbolize the “ecological turn” and the consecutive change of expectations of the inhabitants.Economic viability can only be created by accessibility. Therefore general traffic is mostly channeled into two dominant east – west streets (Ul. Zupnicza and Ul. Kijowska). The newly created north – south artery, the so-called brochette, is reserved to bikers and pedestrians. It is connecting the metro station with a new University. This makes sense because the railroad tracks are intransgressable and the site is to be considered a “pocket”. At the intersection of the brochette and the Ul. Zupnicza a square is created, the center of the new mixed use area.The authors are taking the railroad system as a model for dealing with the ground: the surface of the earth is treated like a continuous green carpet of different natural fabric (urban orchards, wetland, green alleys and courtyards, privates gardens, greenhouses, green roofs etc.). Special attention is paid to a sustainable water system.This natural fabric as well the buildings on top of it are structured according to its surroundings and public infrastructue: the closer it is to the surrounding residential district, the main arteries and the metro, the higher is the percentage of public, retail and office use, the closer it gets to the “railroad barrier” the more private the use becomes.

These “percentages” are clearly readable in the building structure: seven quarters with seven typologies with seven characters: closest to the existing city are the districts with Mixed typologies from 1 to 6 floors because mixed typologies mean mixing social classes as well as the “basements and towers” district with 8 to 14 floors which is a technological – tertiary quarter. At the south end of the area the stadium – one of the very few buildings left by Maciej Nowicki in Warsaw – will be revitalized by complementary sports facilities, partially covered by PV.

Radiating from the square there are the urban corners – buildings aligned along the streets with courtyards. To the North a High – Density Garden City, Elevated Blocks on the Wetland and the “Pieces on the landscape” within the orchards are completing the image. The brochette is cutting through all the seven districts like an X – ray and providing a powerful experience of a new typology and cityscape able to respond to the challenges of the 21st century.

Even if some aspects of the design were controversially discussed the jury is convinced that by further developing and realizing such an urban scheme the city of Warsaw certainly will be enriched by a district that combines the advantages of living in an urban and in a rural environment in a unique way.