MHP

What: International competition for the construction of the New Polish History Museum. (awarded finalist project - selected among 10 finalists out of 350 participants)
Who: Museum of Polish History
Where: Warsaw - Poland
When: 2009
AREA: 25.000 sq. m
AREA49: Giacomo Penco | Proginvest

Re-connection (or mending) is the keynote concept that guided the general conception of the project:

• First of all (following the competition requirements), the functional and physical re-connection and mending between the northern and the southern part of the Jazdow Park, parts that are nowadays separated by the presence of Trasa Lazienkowska. The re-connection is realized by means of covering the road and creating continuity of soil to the green park;

• The re-connection of the south part of the project site with Łazienkowski Park through a pedestrian bridge above the Agrykola. Łazienkowski Park is an historical park which this project tends to integrate into a new valuable historical environmental and cultural circuit around the new Museum of Polish History in Warsaw (Muzeum Historii Polsi w Warszawie);

• The re-connection between the lowest and the highest levels of Scarpa Warszawska (the Vistula River Bank). This is made possible by the settlement of the interior and exterior public spaces belonging to the part of the building of the Museum of Polish History realized nearby the Ujazdów Castle and which occupy the whole height of the slope of the Vistula River Bank;

• The creation of a connection between the public spaces of the new museum (the upper “Patio”) and the rooms of the Ujazdów Castle where the Center for Contemporary Art is placed; this direct link between the two museums increases and strengthen their cultural offer towards a public both interested in History and Art.