WEBVTT 00:00:00.001 --> 00:00:09.000 Ladies and gentlemen, we are launching the last session of today. 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:22.000 I believe you all got a message that at 8pm we are modern world camp and the Olivia Business Center for those of you who stay at the market hotel. 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:37.000 There will be a bus waiting for you at 7.30pm. So we would like to ask all the speakers to observe the time limit if possible, maybe shorten their presentation so that we all have a bit more time. 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:45.000 So now I would like to invite Mr Janoshe Sepio, Chief Architect. 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:56.000 I would like to start by thanking you all for bearing with us until now. It's always great to have someone to talk to. 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:15.000 I need to excuse myself for explaining that even though I spent most of my life planning for Krakow in different dimensions, I am actually a returner to the city. I've been back to my job for two months. 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:27.000 So this presentation does not really intend to be any sort of a lecture. It's more a number of reflections and impressions. 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:40.000 I would like to say that as a Krakow inhabitant I was surprised by that I have no solution to or that it appears simply important to me or maybe even more than to me. 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:46.000 Maybe some of them are even universally interesting. I'd like to share those with you now. 00:01:46.000 --> 00:02:07.000 I'm referring to the simplest issue that is demography, maybe for colleagues from Poland. This piece of information does not bring any additional value, but it might be interesting for our guests from abroad. 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:17.000 The first piece of information that I would like to share with you is that the population in Poland is undergoing unexpected and pretty substantial depopulation. 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:32.000 This is Warsaw, Dynastia, Krakow. All the Polish cities are noting a decreasing number of inhabitants. The forecasts are quite gloomy in this respect. 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:45.000 What is displayed here is Krakow and its most primitively understood metropolitan area. So that's a number of municipalities that are neighbouring ones. 00:02:45.000 --> 00:03:01.000 This is quite exceptional in Poland. Namely, all these towns are growing. Krakow is the second largest city in Poland with 1,800,000 inhabitants. 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:15.000 840,000 is the focus for the time that is distant from now, say, in five years. That's rare. That's rare if you compare it to other places in Poland. 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:24.000 So the increase here in Krakow is by 5%, but in the metropolitan area it is an increase in population by 10%. 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:30.000 That means that the metropolitan area is growing faster than its central city. 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:39.000 During the 20 years to come, this increase in the area is going to be larger and faster than in the city itself. 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:53.000 That is about GDP. So we can say that the metropolitan area is an area that undergoes more dynamic changes and experiencing a more dynamic development than the central city itself. 00:03:53.000 --> 00:04:12.000 So it's just a very sketchy presentation. The circles signify big developmental projects that are underway in the Krakow agglomeration. 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:33.000 That's the airport with the town around it. Logistic hub. It's the greatest industrial park with unsfactory, big residential area, and inside of Krakow actually only two. 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:42.000 A technological park, quite a big one, and an enigmatic program that I will mention later on, the Novahutah of the future. 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:54.000 Novahutah being one of the districts of Krakow, but the most important projects are actually located outside the very central city. 00:04:54.000 --> 00:05:12.000 I wanted to share a few investments with you as I go, making it clear that it is my impression that I will elaborate on later that Krakow is just experiencing a turning point. 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:17.000 So many multi-year programs and projects are coming to an end. 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:39.000 So the time has come for Krakow to consider a longer term perspective for its development. Some of those projects concern the transportation system of the city. 00:05:39.000 --> 00:06:00.000 For many years we've been dreaming of utilizing the railway network in Krakow for city transport, metropolitan transport, and it's always seemed impossible because this meant very expensive investments, reconstruction of practically all intersections and so on. 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:08.000 But now, thanks to EU funds, this project has become possible. 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:26.000 That is at a distance of about 6 km, new railway lines were built, four lines for new ones around the way, new stations along with them. 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:45.000 This allows for joining various railway lines. In other words, railways have gained momentum in Krakow. This might sound somewhat unspectacular, but take a look. 00:06:45.000 --> 00:07:06.000 This is one of the nodes, and I'm not even talking about the architectural scale, I'm talking about the infrastructure as well, new railway bridges on the Vistula, new railway lines had to be changed, modified. 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:25.000 It's a railway line, it's a railway line in order to use these bridges. Underneath the infrastructure park is being developed, which all of a sudden has joined two banks of the city creating new spaces for development. 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:35.000 The second issue is a large project which culminates a certain transport model. 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:57.000 This is the Ring Road, which you can see here, has been built for 20 years, a solid line. What is HACCH, that's the project of the last three years, plus access point to the highway to Warsaw, plus a number of other investments. 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:12.000 I know that it's no longer in fashion to show such schematics, but nevertheless this should illustrate the scale of the investments. This is a picture from about a month in the direction to Warsaw. 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:32.000 The north deeter has a number of tunnels, a new bridge on the Vistula. What sort of impact is it going to have on the traffic within the Krakow metropolitan area? We don't quite know, but there's a lot of access points there. 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:42.000 It's not a typical highway turnpike, so one can suppose that the north of Krakow will receive a strong impulse for development. 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:59.000 Another point is the system of rail transport. In Krakow it's pretty well developed, we have pretty good infrastructure, and a number of large lines have been turned into reality. 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:19.000 There are projects of extending those tram lines to the city border, and beyond. Generally the idea is to have a park and ride at the city borders, or even in the metropolitan area itself. 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:38.000 Well, trams, right? Nothing spectacular. These pictures might seem banal, but I'd like to point your attention to the fact that each of these pathways has a certain underground or tunnel segment from half a kilometer to a kilometer. 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:57.000 Basically, each new tram line in Krakow has an element that can be described as pre-underground, pre-metro element. I'm not sure if we can see it clearly on the pictures, but the tram basically goes underground in these places. 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:07.000 And a political decision has been made, finally, that Krakow is going to have a metro, is going to have an underground system. 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:20.000 This is not marked clearly here, this subway line, potential underline line, this first line in blue. Right now we have environmental assessment being conducted. 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:25.000 There was a referendum on that in the city, people wanted. 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:46.000 We were kind of labor-gasted that, for example, smaller cities in Romania have subways, but the second biggest city in Poland doesn't, and it's not even building yet, so I want to clearly say that it is going to happen. 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:56.000 But what really changes the lifestyle in the city, its character, and draws more emotions than transport decisions, are the new parks. 00:10:56.000 --> 00:11:25.000 The new parks, which often contain water elements, the first one is the so-called "maladivs" next to the biggest sports arena. We have a park with water basins, and here we have all stone quarry, where very, very clear water, very high quality, where public is. 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:36.000 Public bathing area has been organized, crowds come in the summer, it's almost difficult to get in. 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:52.000 Another type of projects are small-scale interventions that interconnect various spaces in the city. This is an example of three pedestrian bridges. 00:11:52.000 --> 00:12:06.000 The one below the so-called "Bernadka" has proven itself to be a great place for art installations. There we have sculptures, which balance on these lines. 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:27.000 When people are walking, they start moving, they're kinetic, which looks great, especially in the evening with great lighting. And this pedestrian bridge also created great functional changes on both sides of the river, changing the character of the neighborhoods, of the districts. 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:48.000 This is the second pedestrian bridge, which is under construction now for a long time. It stirred a lot of controversy. There were even certain voices that once we build it, Karako is going to be of the UNESCO World Heritage List, other announces like that, but that's over, it's being built. 00:12:48.000 --> 00:13:12.000 We also have an example of a bicycle bridge, a very long one. Bicycle traffic has increased greatly. It's 12%, 15% annually in growth, so Karako is really switching to bicycles as mode of transportation, not just recreation. 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:21.000 So the city is really changing in that aspect and it's investing a lot in the bike infrastructure. 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:36.000 Of course, Karako has always had its ambitions, it's always wanted to be a cultural metropolis. Karako is proud of its culture, so I wanted to show you a number of facilities connected with that, which are under construction now. 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:54.000 Here we have the center of two city orchestras, the Marsha has his Philharmonic, the President of the city has two orchestras. We have a model there as well as the building under construction. 00:13:54.000 --> 00:14:16.000 Here we have a building of a hotel from the 1960s, the Krakowie Hotel, which is supposed to be rebuilt and turned into a museum of architecture and design. For a long time there were plans to demolish it, but now it's going to be reconstructed into a national museum. 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:34.000 And here we have another project, Karako is a UNESCO city of literature, so we're going to have the city of literature in industrial areas close to the Vistula. 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:42.000 It creates an element of this cultural waterfront of the Vistula in this sort of war district of Podgurze. 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:59.000 And here we have a recently completed building called Kobiteum, equivalent of the Copernicus Center in Warsaw, that is a science center for children. 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:20.000 The building is located at the old Saratova, at the old landing strip of the airport. And from the roof terrace you can view during the aviation days various historical planes taking off. 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:26.000 Here we also see the Music Academy, not a very good picture. 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:38.000 And the next slide, some of the biggest problems, illustrating some of the biggest problems in the city. This is the Vesova district, basically the center of the city. 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:52.000 Right here we have the old town, the old city, nearly 10 hectares of old hospitals, clinics, university clinics, the oldest dating back to the 17th century. 00:15:52.000 --> 00:16:05.000 Because the university moved all of its clinics to a modern complex at the city borders, these deserted clinics were purchased by the city of Craco. 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:21.000 And the idea is to turn into a creative district. So various institutions, some of them are being started, a new one, in order to fill the district with activity, with life. 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:32.000 Currently master plan is being prepared, master plan which is going to prepare a number of competitions. 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:46.000 Generally speaking the principle is that these old clinics, which I'm pointing to now, are going to be assigned a new function. 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:53.000 Here we have a water basin and right here we are going to build a new city library. 00:16:53.000 --> 00:17:07.000 Maybe not on the scale of the Belgian example in Ghent, but also children's theater, a combination of library and children's theater. 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:15.000 It's going to be very interesting because we get a very promising group of future readers for the library. 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:28.000 One of the elements here is the old kitchen, laundry of the hospital, designed from 1880 by Zaremba. 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:34.000 This is supposed to be a hub of urban innovation. 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:48.000 So similar to this building and function, we are also considering this to be the city architect's location. 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:56.000 We are preparing competition for that building, for the modification of that building. 00:17:56.000 --> 00:18:09.000 And some more examples of larger projects connected with very deep restructuring of the industrial base of the city. 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:20.000 Cracow used to be a city associated with a huge steel mill, the biggest industrial center of Central Eastern Europe. 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:27.000 It used to employ 40,000 people. Now it's about 2,000-3,000. 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:33.000 But in the sector of short services, business services, we have 60,000 people now. 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:44.000 So one might say a total economic conversion has taken place and many industrial plants, mostly associated with the chemical industry, are us in this case. 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:56.000 Here we have tobacco plants. By the way, Philip Morris is still producing Cracow, but the company has left these buildings. 00:18:56.000 --> 00:19:04.000 And here construction has already started of building this mix of hotel, recreation, residential function. 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:11.000 I'll point attention to one element, the so-called Visva-Vasemborska Park. 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:19.000 It used to be all military barracks. Cracow used to be a huge military fortress until the First World War. 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:33.000 It's a very successful park, very popular now, and it's going to be connected with the green area of the so-called lower mills, the former tobacco plant. 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:40.000 Aside from the lower mills, we also have the real mills, the actual mills. 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:53.000 This is an advanced project of deep restructurization. You can see on this picture, actually the project is much more advanced than on this image. 00:19:53.000 --> 00:20:00.000 It has already won some awards. 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:17.000 I'm showing this as examples of the fact that at this point the most important projects, most residential in nature, are connected with restructuring former industrial areas. 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:31.000 In the past it used to be that such areas were addressed only by companies building shopping centers, but now the trend is to actually demolish shopping centers and build residential developments. 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:34.000 And it turns out there are many sites like that. 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:45.000 In Cracow we no longer have green fields. We only have areas that can be transformed. 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:49.000 We have only areas. 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:59.000 Another example of this type, this is where vodka was produced. 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:04.000 Now it's a congress center. 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:20.000 In the old distillery we now have office, hotel, congress, conference center, and the area of the former, almost distillery, so no more vodka offices instead. 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:28.000 So similar to the brewery in Gdańsk. 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:44.000 Here we have an example of a project which is a lot of controversy. This is a part of Cracow which has always been treated as the end of the world where you can maybe just locate a garbage dump. 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:46.000 Good for nothing basically. 00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:55.000 But former city authorities came up with the idea to create a new district for 100,000 residents. 00:21:55.000 --> 00:22:08.000 It seemed absurd, but there were architects which took up the challenge creating this forest of skyscrapers. 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:22.000 And city councilors rejected that idea, that design. So it's an example of concept failure and failed investment. 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:45.000 There are many companies which are active in the year, mostly connected logistics. And they, on their initiative, another project, another design, another proposal was prepared as a counter proposal. 00:22:45.000 --> 00:23:01.000 There are no skyscrapers, as you can see. There is an aquapark there, because there's a located here. 00:23:01.000 --> 00:23:20.000 The existing residential district is to be expanded, with introduction of quality services and an industrial park and a long domain artery, a business park marked here in red. 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:31.000 Behind the eastern highway, this is a place for so-called arboretum in this part. 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:53.000 I'm showing this as an example of how these processes of large scale planning basically are in the middle of between initiatives of the city, social initiatives, which very often take shape of counter proposals to proposals and so on. 00:23:53.000 --> 00:24:09.000 I wouldn't want to go on about this project. This is the Novohut of the future. I simply know that it's rather enigmatic design, frankly, project. 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:18.000 I'm not a big fan of it. I can just say that here we have the area of the big steel mill, the various waste yards. 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:39.000 This is the most advanced part. These used to be gravel and sand mines, a lot of water basins, great place for fishermen and kayak enthusiasts. 00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:59.000 Some of the pictures of that project here you can see that investments are happening. Things are being built. It's a project that is very well received by the city dwellers. 00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:14.000 Of course, residential development. This is about 10,000. Generally about 10,000 flats are built annually. 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:31.000 I'll show you a number of examples from various parts of the city, from the city centers where we have such facades with sandstone facings to buildings located in post-industrial areas. 00:25:31.000 --> 00:25:41.000 Here we used to have a big factory of Zelenitsky producing machines of various types. Now we have a large residential district. 00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:59.000 So in connection with that, summing up, I'd like to say that Krakow has carried out a number of long-term strategic goals that has reshaped its economic base. 00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:13.000 It has strengthened its position as the second biggest city in Poland, the second city both in demographic potential and also the second when it comes to the income level, the second after war. 00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:22.000 So Krakow has increased the quality of its air. Krakow had always been a symbol of ecological catastrophe, of horrible air. 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:31.000 It used to be said that you could actually see the air in Krakow. So we made it out of the group of the 20 most polluted cities. 00:26:31.000 --> 00:26:37.000 It was a big effort, but we've done it. And Krakow has also completed key elements of infrastructure. 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:45.000 When we were entering the EU, Krakow didn't have either an opera or an airport or a big sports arena or a stadium or a museum of modern art. 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:58.000 They didn't have much, frankly, outside of the old city and the Wawel Castle Hill. So all of these have been completed. 00:26:58.000 --> 00:27:18.000 And on the slide, well, these are all things I've mentioned, right? They crown certain projects, railway lines, new highways, new express connections to the north and south, new airport, 11 million passengers had to be expanded. 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:28.000 So this is quite a change, quite a quantitative change, which turns into a qualitative change as well. 00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:38.000 And we have new challenges as a city as well. Krakow has to find new, maybe not so much identity, but rather new goals, new ambitions. 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:49.000 It's definitely going to be connected with stronger integration of the metropolitan area, building of the subway, of the metro. It's a project of symbolic nature as well. 00:27:49.000 --> 00:28:00.000 But an open question remains internationalization of the social development, economic development. 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:09.000 I'm not even talking about the millions of tourists. Krakow is suffering from over-tourism. That's another issue. 00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:23.000 Also increasing the quality of the environment and developing of the cultural, the media center. It seems that our goals are going to concentrate around that. 00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:47.000 I'd like to say that today's session, and thank you, Piotr here, today's session gives me a lot of inspiration about how the urban environment of Krakow could reshape itself and in what areas we could actually look for inspiration for models. 00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:58.000 Thank you very much for your attention. I didn't have a picture of the Vawelhoed, or the St. Mary's Church, so I'm ending with that, showing you a picture of the old town. 00:28:58.000 --> 00:29:02.000 That Krakow is also very much alive. Thank you very much. 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:13.000 I can say those are really examples which a lot of 19th century, 19th century belts in several European cities are dealing with. 00:29:13.000 --> 00:29:23.000 So I hope it will be inspiration for some of you. And maybe, yeah, I wish you good luck with realization of a metro. 00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:32.000 The underground is a new gold, so be aware of what you're going to be dealing with, and I should also say grow wisely. 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:45.000 It's sometimes good to take a time and to stand up with everything what you realize, but this you already showed to us, so I assume this is already the first step in an analyze how Krakow will be evaluating in the future. 00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:49.000 And now, please, Mr. architect Maciej Mąka. 00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:54.000 Good evening. 00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:57.000 Good evening. 00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:01.000 You can try to... 00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:07.000 How can you recognize an architect that is cycling in the dark? 00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:15.000 Because he's the mirror directed into his face. Well, the title of this presentation is... 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:25.000 And by the way, I would like to thank people, Lawrence, to invite me to present a number of projects of a metro project in Krakow. 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:37.000 I'm going to focus on three of them. First is Granary Project, which we have done to publish in last month. That's re-bibolizing the northern part of the Granary Islander Center of the city of Gdańsk. 00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:41.000 I'm very grateful that... 00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:59.000 This lead to be my presentation. I would try to reduce it to 50 slides, but I will not really talk about each of them. I will try not to delay anything. 00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:08.000 And why did I pose this question about the zoning plans that they come as a solution over the pain for architects? 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:15.000 Because something is hitting the planners, but this is showing what kind of issues and challenges. 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:24.000 What tasks we have to face as those that actually implement the provisions of zoning plans and planning decisions? 00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:37.000 So why don't we start by explaining why we are cautious in what we want to do interpreting the zoning plans? 00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:54.000 Because we as architects and urban engineers are big change, we feel responsible for the space that we are creating. 00:31:54.000 --> 00:32:04.000 So we create a city for people, which is not something that we do for ourselves, for our egos, for our sense of fulfillment for some people. 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:13.000 But it is for ourselves using the financing from the investors, but that's an over-sumification in the past. 00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:22.000 Having worked for over 25 years, I guess that we've got certain conclusions. 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:35.000 When we want to carry out the projects being careful and cautious, mindfully, these are the three projects that touch upon the first one is the Ramana. 00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:43.000 That's the project that's accompanying the public-private partnerships in the city, plus the private investor, 00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:53.000 that took up the challenge to plan and to actually introduce new developments in the Grand Reality. 00:32:53.000 --> 00:33:08.000 So this entire frontage is what fits into the Grand Reality project that's adding to the first stage, so we can see that holiday in a hotel. 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:14.000 So our project has to do it. This is what... 00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:23.000 So this is the main center that for 70 years was still empty, there's not development. 00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:33.000 And in the project, I'm talking about the main determinant, the determining factor, 00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:45.000 once the access of buildings that previously existed in this place, we had to bring a set of what used to be granaries. 00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:50.000 The person that distanced between the buildings was smaller than actually is allowed by law. 00:33:50.000 --> 00:34:01.000 I mean, by fighting law and those concerning making exceptions from the law. 00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:07.000 So this is what it looked like some years ago. 00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:14.000 A few years ago. I'm talking here about those little streets that are really narrow, they're six meters wide. 00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:24.000 It had not been for the exception that we got a consent from the ministry, we wouldn't have been able to actually do anything about that. 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:35.000 And this heritage monument listed in the UNESCO Heritage List, we're really looking at these strangely now. 00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:43.000 So a digression in question comes with a maybe, what makes sense to actually transpose all these exemptions to the zoning plan. 00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:48.000 So far it hasn't been allowed by law, but simply that would save so much time. 00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:56.000 This project got prolonged by yet another year in order for us to be able to submit it for construction purposes 00:34:56.000 --> 00:35:03.000 and to get the decision that's made possible for us to commence the implementation. 00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:12.000 I don't have images, it was actually, it was only a month ago that scaffolding was taken down and still there was some final touches being added. 00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:18.000 But that is a project of three quarters and you can read it later on in the description. 00:35:18.000 --> 00:35:27.000 Pietro promised that he would be distributing the presentation later on, so you'll find some more details in the presentation to be able to explore it on your own. 00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:42.000 We tried to make it as tragic as coherent with the entire legacy of the city with its handsiatic nature, 00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:49.000 that in the past was a flourishing centre for commerce services. 00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:57.000 And this project is a mixed-tease one where the ground floors are powered by a gas-polling trade, 00:35:57.000 --> 00:36:02.000 a double-spot, and a ground parking lot very hard because the standards are under control. 00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:10.000 We have monuments that we have to support in order to protect the man to inscribe the man's in. 00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:20.000 That was a very demanding project, probably one of the most demanding and fascinating projects that we took up in our design career. 00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:35.000 This project equipped us with a number of experiences that we carry on, 00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:43.000 trying to offer the best possible architecture with 15 contexts. 00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:51.000 This project from 15 is a very interesting project, an artistic jolly-bosch jolly-bosch jolly-bosch. 00:36:51.000 --> 00:37:00.000 This is also the project that involved creating a new district in Chile, 00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:06.000 in the 10 hectares of the area that used to be a military base. 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:12.000 This project is integrated with industrial jolly-bosch jolly-bosch jolly-bosch, 00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:22.000 it's a transformed residential area, and with the old office, like an old jolly-bosch. 00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:31.000 So we were district that was designed by the Blocalskis. 00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:37.000 We have a tradition and we have some reference points that we could rely on. 00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:43.000 Here what we were to do is not to add yet another residential state, housing estate, 00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:48.000 but create a district that would really endow the place with its own identity. 00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:55.000 Here we clashed with a zoning plan that was actually in the making when we started building on this project. 00:37:55.000 --> 00:38:04.000 We had some influence in the shape of it, we modified it a bit. 00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:11.000 In this part of the meeting we had a real estate plan and we wanted to make sure that 00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:19.000 the visions of kind of the private sector were taken that enabled us to be so important from the other side of the road 00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:23.000 that are actually looking for like a break in the house. 00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:29.000 And the same to the first greenery and the same to the private sector. 00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:37.000 To the fact that we had a rich rich house of things, we were able to design it 00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:43.000 and we would wait until very interesting elements in different places, 00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:48.000 like the building of the house, the space of the house, the building of the house, 00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:53.000 and the space of the house, the space of the house, the space of the house. 00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:59.000 And the biggest to us is the degree of flexibility of creating a very nice, 00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:03.000 of course, and a certain context. 00:39:03.000 --> 00:39:11.000 It's not to be completely free, but it's very conducive to the sense of the design. 00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:17.000 We should not go over the scale that we should produce something that matches the neighborhood, 00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:19.000 the surrounding context and so on. 00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:24.000 But a certain degree of flexibility in the zoning plan is a creative approach. 00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:31.000 Something that in turn makes it possible for the architects to produce interesting visual results 00:39:31.000 --> 00:39:36.000 that actually can generate on the basis of what we found there. 00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:43.000 So as not to lose those crucial valuable elements like greenery, 00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:50.000 certain openings or the possibility of actually connecting to districts. 00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:55.000 Joliborz is the project that's dedicated to the artists that worked there 00:39:55.000 --> 00:40:00.000 and we created together with the artists operating in Joliborz. 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:07.000 They translated the achievements of artists previously worked there like Kalejna Andrusi, 00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:11.000 Kamalerović, Degad Kometa. 00:40:11.000 --> 00:40:16.000 You will find all that in description and we brought together art and architecture. 00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:23.000 In each of the buildings you can find references to the works produced by those great artists 00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:26.000 that were commemorated this way. 00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:34.000 So what we created really is a new district of Joliborz 00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:40.000 that again gave a certain identity to the area and to the community. 00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:46.000 We have a very positive experience in terms of the reception of the outcome of our work, 00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:51.000 even that many years afterwards people really do identify with that place 00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:59.000 and it appears that we urban planners, we architects together working closely with one another 00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:04.000 can generate good plans, create robust architecture 00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:09.000 and that brings us close to reaching the goal that is creating a community 00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:14.000 that is simply very friendly, that is livable 00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:21.000 and that is something that both inhabitants and visitors will subscribe to, identify, attend. 00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:26.000 It will be a place of well-being. 00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:33.000 This is what it looks like. 00:41:33.000 --> 00:41:40.000 There is a perspective showing the panorama of the city, so that's quite a noticeable project. 00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:50.000 A number of our colleagues, architects were invited to pay a visit to it together with their clients 00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:58.000 who explained to them how to design so as to sell well, 00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:04.000 but that was not our ultimate goal, but that also matters in those metropolitan projects, 00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:11.000 those big projects. A lot of financing comes from private investors 00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:21.000 and the possibility of actually implementing such a mixed use project 00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:30.000 that introduces a certain synergy effect and results in an increased quality of life 00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:37.000 and a sense of value also to those who simply inhabit the area, who buy a flat there 00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:43.000 because the flats get a high residual value 00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:49.000 and of course investors are in a position to actually implement their projects. 00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:56.000 This is the third project, the city of the Polish Olympic athletes, Robert Lewandowski, 00:42:56.000 --> 00:43:02.000 who is a player, is a partner in this project and he is responsible for the sports-related program in it 00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:06.000 and he is also a business partner in this endeavor. 00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:14.000 This is a project, and this is the very last part of the presentation, so I'm about to finish. 00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:22.000 Next to this chaotic development that was shown by Professor Zel, so Yusuf Osloff, 00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:29.000 we tried those fields that actually are the remnants, 00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:37.000 that used to be a place for glass houses for different plants, 00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:45.000 the Roman harvests, we wanted to find an idea, so that's on the outskirts of the Warsaw Metropolis, 00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:54.000 as mentioned by the previous speaker, we see how dynamically the neighborhood keeps changing. 00:43:54.000 --> 00:44:00.000 And again, first and foremost, these changes are economic in nature 00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:06.000 and also itself, prices of glass apartments are really high, 00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:14.000 whilst in the suburbs it is still possible for investors to set the price level reasonably. 00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:23.000 It is an area of 40 hectares, so it's not a small one, but we plan around 20,000 inhabitants. 00:44:23.000 --> 00:44:35.000 It fits into a general idea of creating a community there. 00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:44.000 We want to create a 15-minute city there, but from a practical point of view, not theoretically, 00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:50.000 many investments that we come across in the vicinity, but not just in Warsaw, actually, in many different cities. 00:44:50.000 --> 00:45:02.000 Marketing-wise sells a given estate as a 15-minute one, which is not necessarily true when you get deeper into it. 00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:09.000 So here instead, we wanted to make sure that the city will be a 15-minute one, 00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:15.000 and we wanted to include those factors that determine this nature. 00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:20.000 So one quarter is the sporting infrastructure, actually. 00:45:20.000 --> 00:45:26.000 One quarter will be schools and kindergartens, as well as outpatient clinics and services. 00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:36.000 The number of people that will be the users of this area will be a guarantee, 00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:40.000 actually, will guarantee that these services will be in demand, 00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:45.000 and the ideas will reflect the Olympic assumptions, Olympic nature. 00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:53.000 We've got the division into three sub-districts that are created thinking about the Olympics in Paris, 00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:58.000 that is history already, but also looking ahead into the future ones. 00:45:58.000 --> 00:46:04.000 And we will have houses here that will be granted to our gold and silver medalists, 00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:12.000 and they will be handed to the Olympic, the Golden and Silver Medalists by the Olympic Committee. 00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:20.000 That's something that we've never heard of before. 00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:26.000 Actually, you will not find anything like that in Poland, and I think it is pretty exceptional, 00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:33.000 so when you look at the largest scale, so it is all about the network of functional interdependencies, 00:46:33.000 --> 00:46:36.000 where particular elements will play together. 00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:39.000 We put a strong emphasis on ecology. 00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:46.000 We want the community to have access to an Olympic mile, 00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:56.000 so this is a facility around which you have multidisciplinary devices for athletes. 00:46:56.000 --> 00:47:03.000 It goes across the squares and it fills the spaces between the buildings, 00:47:03.000 --> 00:47:09.000 turning it all into a cohesive, recreational, sporting organism. 00:47:09.000 --> 00:47:12.000 And we also put a lot of emphasis to ecology as mentioned, 00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:19.000 we want to create a sponge city that will absorb rainwater 00:47:19.000 --> 00:47:26.000 and will not be simply using it for no purpose, 00:47:26.000 --> 00:47:38.000 but it will be used for watering purposes, for providing water for those facilities that require that. 00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:46.000 The time is nearly up, but the time is about the biggest trophy that you cannot buy. 00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:50.000 The only thing we can do about time is trying to save it, 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:56.000 and all the elements of this housing complex are complete, 00:47:56.000 --> 00:48:02.000 and they will be available, they really will be within a 15-minute reach. 00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:06.000 Therefore, we will really meet the requirement of a 15-minute city, 00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:13.000 so as to be able to really build a community, there will be no fencing, no architectural barriers there. 00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:20.000 We want it to be really friendly to live in, we want it to be conducive to interactions, 00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:28.000 and we simply want it to be a well-designed part of the city on the city outskirts. 00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:32.000 In a moment I will show you what the space here will look like. 00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:39.000 These are those sporting areas with this loop that people will be able to run on. 00:48:39.000 --> 00:48:54.000 It's not a great scale of the buildings, it's for the outskirts, so it appears to us that we will make it. 00:48:54.000 --> 00:49:02.000 Now we are facing the hard moment where the general plans are being prepared for all the Polish cities 00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:08.000 that have to be completed by 2025, and they will set the framework for the new zoning plans 00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:16.000 and decisions about the contraction conditions, and they will define actually what the main parameters will be 00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:23.000 for each investment, be it public or private one, or a mixed-use one in Poland. 00:49:23.000 --> 00:49:31.000 That's an obligatory, so all the municipalities are now working on creating these plans, 00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:36.000 and that comes as a challenge to us as architects. 00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:41.000 We need to make sure that we are part of this dialogue with local governments, 00:49:41.000 --> 00:49:46.000 and we can showcase good solutions that later on will be transformed onto the zoning plans. 00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:55.000 Now ecology, as mentioned, is very important here, and as we've heard from the former mayor of Vilnius, 00:49:55.000 --> 00:50:01.000 will also be part of this project, so we'll not have some small trees, 00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:10.000 but we will have robust lavish greenery with rain forests on the roof. 00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:21.000 So we want this state to be different from many similar projects that are only profit-oriented. 00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:26.000 So I hope that I've managed to observe the time limit allocated to me, 00:50:26.000 --> 00:50:36.000 and just as a final remark, I want to show you those elements that we want to build the community and strengthen it. 00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:43.000 The public spaces, the Tweet designed, and they are at the very heart of any metropolis. 00:50:43.000 --> 00:50:46.000 Thank you very much for your attention. 00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:52.000 This kind of conference will be next time, should be nice to visit some of those spaces, 00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:57.000 because it's somehow easy to understand about what kind of issues are you talking about, 00:50:57.000 --> 00:51:01.000 if you can really try and to see it with your own eyes. 00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:10.000 And maybe as an example, in Belgium we have got a really long tradition of making those kinds of master plans, 00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:16.000 and then giving them to the government to build on those master plans, the new spatial structure plans. 00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:19.000 So this is the way how the fact has to happen. 00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:25.000 So this dialogue, what you were talking about, it's really very necessary, and some countries is already going on. 00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:36.000 At this point I'd like to ask Mr. Wojtchachowski. Good evening. 00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:44.000 My name is Szymon Wojtchachowski. I entitled my presentation "In between", 00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:48.000 in this case "In between architecture and urban planning". 00:51:48.000 --> 00:51:53.000 And the place in between, why is it so important? 00:51:53.000 --> 00:51:59.000 We as a company move always in this "in between" space between certain phenomena. 00:51:59.000 --> 00:52:10.000 So in between we are here at the overlap of architecture and urban planning very often. 00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:19.000 Generally, places, such places, such places in between, places between planning, the case of life, 00:52:19.000 --> 00:52:28.000 east and west, here we'll have these elements of different philosophies, also in between war and peace, 00:52:28.000 --> 00:52:32.000 between permanence and change, past and future. 00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:48.000 This is a place where you can draw from both of these areas, and in between provides a very good vantage point. 00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:55.000 We are a relatively large company, 120 employees. 00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:59.000 We are located in Warsaw and in Tracity, in Gdynia. 00:52:59.000 --> 00:53:08.000 We have many nationalities, representatives of many nationalities working in our offices, our projects, 00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:19.000 are located throughout Poland, also outside of Poland, in Vilnius, in Kiev. 00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:31.000 My favorite definition of architecture and urban planning is that this is basically sharing our values, 00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:34.000 society's values in spatial form. 00:53:34.000 --> 00:53:46.000 I also try to think about the shaping of spaces, the ground, as a game between various factors, various people. 00:53:46.000 --> 00:53:51.000 Here we have a list of such factors. 00:53:51.000 --> 00:53:54.000 This reminds me of what the President of Vilnius has said. 00:53:54.000 --> 00:54:00.000 And here we have a schematic, which we could take a look at in detail, but I don't think we have time for that. 00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:04.000 But it basically shows how it works. 00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:19.000 One can present this game as a game in accordance with the game theory. 00:54:19.000 --> 00:54:26.000 Using the language of the game theory, it's important to have a non-zero game. 00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:32.000 In other words, we don't have a situation that if somebody wins, somebody else loses. 00:54:32.000 --> 00:54:35.000 Everybody should win in some way. 00:54:35.000 --> 00:54:41.000 So we are here between the planners and architects. 00:54:41.000 --> 00:54:51.000 And I wanted to move very quickly through five examples of design that we have done, 00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:55.000 in which we had various proportions of architecture to planning. 00:54:55.000 --> 00:55:04.000 We also have designs, basically, prepared without various plans. 00:55:04.000 --> 00:55:06.000 We also have a "Ruskuf" also. 00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:10.000 Another example of this type, like "Povishle" 00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:18.000 Another project, which is relatively detailed, but plan is going to be prepared only later. 00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:23.000 We have a residential district with plan and also a project without a plan in Kiev. 00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:26.000 This project is the White Square office center in Moscow. 00:55:26.000 --> 00:55:35.000 A huge project right in the center of Moscow, where you can see this red line in a place, 00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:48.000 which has a fantastic location from the developer's point of view, because it's located in front of the Belarusian train station. 00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:57.000 There were trains from, for example, Sheremetov Airport, it's a project from 2008, a while back. 00:55:57.000 --> 00:56:01.000 Obviously, we are not continuing the cooperation now. 00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:05.000 Here we used to have a number of facilities. 00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:17.000 The main was an Orthodox church marked here by a red circle, with a pretty strong layout of streets. 00:56:17.000 --> 00:56:31.000 Our idea was to create merging streets and introducing buildings along these axes. 00:56:31.000 --> 00:56:40.000 Then, complementing further development, so that the center of the entire layout is the church itself. 00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:47.000 When I used to go to Moscow, I was very proud of that place, because sometimes I would come to Moscow at 1 am, 00:56:47.000 --> 00:56:49.000 and there was still life in that district. 00:56:49.000 --> 00:57:04.000 That project was selected among top three projects, as the most important projects after the fall of communism in Moscow. 00:57:04.000 --> 00:57:14.000 Another project we are very proud of is the Povishle Post Industrial Site. 00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:18.000 This is what my colleague Stepio was emphasizing. 00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:21.000 Very attractive location of Warsaw changed a lot. 00:57:21.000 --> 00:57:25.000 I used to live there as a kid. 00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:27.000 I was forbidden to go there and play there. 00:57:27.000 --> 00:57:30.000 It was a dangerous place. 00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:40.000 There was no geometry, there was no industry role, there was no work on fabric around, it was just an industrial plant. 00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:47.000 Basically, we encountered this romantic condition, as I like to call it. 00:57:47.000 --> 00:57:52.000 First of all, we identified what we can demolish here marked in blue. 00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:57.000 Obviously, we had various social products here. 00:57:57.000 --> 00:58:07.000 The second phase was shaping the main few axes in order to connect it with the city, defining public spaces. 00:58:07.000 --> 00:58:11.000 We wanted to have a composition of three theme squares. 00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:24.000 Then, building up these areas with relatively intense use of buildings. 00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:35.000 It is a place which definitely has set itself permanently in the urban fabric of the Povishle district. 00:58:35.000 --> 00:58:42.000 It should have been there for a long time. 00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:47.000 Basically, we could have done everything there, due to no administration limitations. 00:58:47.000 --> 00:58:52.000 We are very proud of this very rich, very polyphonic place. 00:58:52.000 --> 00:58:54.000 It is always full of life. 00:58:54.000 --> 00:58:57.000 It is a place where a lot is happening. 00:58:57.000 --> 00:59:04.000 The third example is a project to which a plan is going to be added. 00:59:04.000 --> 00:59:08.000 We have here very difficult negotiations with the city architect's office. 00:59:08.000 --> 00:59:11.000 It is on the other side of the river. 00:59:11.000 --> 00:59:19.000 It is also a great location, quite unique, because it is the only place in Poland where regional railways are located on top of the subway. 00:59:19.000 --> 00:59:22.000 Perhaps in Kraków, you will have something similar. 00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:29.000 This was a pretty wet area, a lot of swampy lands. 00:59:29.000 --> 00:59:37.000 In the interwar period, there was an idea to locate a river port. 00:59:37.000 --> 00:59:40.000 This project was abandoned. 00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:48.000 So, very substandard industrial buildings were created. 00:59:48.000 --> 00:59:58.000 Investor decided to build a water log here as well, which regulates the river. 00:59:58.000 --> 01:00:00.000 This is a very large water log. 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:04.000 It is located in the centre of Warsaw. 01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:10.000 Around it, we have a lot of various functions, a richness of them. 01:00:10.000 --> 01:00:17.000 After we complete ours, this is going to be a part of the city, which is going to be very functional. 01:00:17.000 --> 01:00:22.000 We divided the area into three zones. 01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:26.000 In this beige, we are getting permits for the blue. 01:00:26.000 --> 01:00:28.000 Basically, all heights are set. 01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:35.000 And the green, this is the legs developer, the new regulations that there negotiations are going on. 01:00:35.000 --> 01:00:47.000 So, in the design process, we identified a number of parallel passages of different character. 01:00:47.000 --> 01:00:54.000 One must also mention that the southern basin had never been finished. 01:00:54.000 --> 01:00:58.000 Nature ruled there, and we are leaving this nature intact. 01:00:58.000 --> 01:01:04.000 This is the green part, but the rest is going to be built up quite intensively. 01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:12.000 This is, in fact, a 15-minute city, taking into account what we are going to have in the port area and around it. 01:01:12.000 --> 01:01:16.000 This is one of the visualizations of the residential part. 01:01:16.000 --> 01:01:25.000 On the right-hand side, we can see, thanks to this lock, we will be able to maintain a fixed water level in the centre. 01:01:25.000 --> 01:01:31.000 Here we have one of the boulevards, which has a view onto the green part. 01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:35.000 A building terminating one of the piers, one of the keys. 01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:38.000 You can see the high risers in the background. 01:01:38.000 --> 01:01:49.000 In this most intense location, we had to put in what the investor calls the city project, 01:01:49.000 --> 01:01:53.000 which moves pretty aggressively into the panorama of the city. 01:01:53.000 --> 01:01:59.000 This was shaped, as you can see, in the middle part. 01:01:59.000 --> 01:02:02.000 It was shaped by the course of the sun. 01:02:02.000 --> 01:02:08.000 We had to shape such a view in order not to cast shadow on the residential part, 01:02:08.000 --> 01:02:13.000 to maintain green parts and to maintain continuation of the spaces, which everybody mentioned. 01:02:13.000 --> 01:02:21.000 Now, we have downloaded the green part of the entire city. 01:02:21.000 --> 01:02:26.000 In green, you can see the places from which our buildings will be seen. 01:02:26.000 --> 01:02:34.000 We have also received from the city architect's office the points of special interest. 01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:40.000 We have generated views from the most important points. 01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:44.000 This is, for example, from the castle square, Platsamkovo, one of these views. 01:02:44.000 --> 01:02:53.000 There were a number of such especially valuable views and a creation of such simple views. 01:02:53.000 --> 01:02:58.000 I have a work using computers now. 01:02:58.000 --> 01:03:05.000 We have tried to inform the architect's office that it is urban planning now that should take the fort. 01:03:05.000 --> 01:03:08.000 The architecture should take secondary place. 01:03:08.000 --> 01:03:15.000 It is going to be the subject of the secondary measures. 01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:19.000 We conducted analysis, what it would look like in various scenarios. 01:03:19.000 --> 01:03:32.000 These are not concrete designs, but rather just materials that allow for negotiations about what it could possibly look like in various scenarios. 01:03:32.000 --> 01:03:35.000 A view of one of the versions. 01:03:35.000 --> 01:03:42.000 And the next project, which I'll move on through very quickly, is a project from Dańsk. 01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:45.000 We also like it very much. It's a river view. 01:03:45.000 --> 01:03:56.000 It's located in a very particular place. It's between the main city on the left and the sort of 19th century area on the right-hand side. 01:03:56.000 --> 01:03:59.000 I always say that Dańsk has two faces. 01:03:59.000 --> 01:04:11.000 This handsiatic brick architecture and a more baroque bourgeoisie like face. 01:04:11.000 --> 01:04:20.000 We have really tried to have this project reflect these two faces. 01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:29.000 From the side of the main city we have these very raw facades connecting to the traditional Dańsk architecture. 01:04:29.000 --> 01:04:43.000 From the internal city side we have these smaller buildings avoiding pastiche, avoiding modern architecture, which basically merge in. 01:04:43.000 --> 01:04:53.000 Despite the fact that having a frontage, we wanted residents to have views of the water because nature plays an important part here. 01:04:53.000 --> 01:04:58.000 It's lovely here. We're in the center of the city, but we are living next to the water. 01:04:58.000 --> 01:05:04.000 This is the view from these buildings. It's great. 01:05:04.000 --> 01:05:14.000 I love showing that picture because it shows how we were able to blend these two faces of the city, the brick one of the main city and the rest of the city. 01:05:14.000 --> 01:05:22.000 We've also tried to compose the project in such a way so that it would emphasize particularly important views. 01:05:22.000 --> 01:05:33.000 Thanks to the investor we had the possibility of creating all those beautiful green spaces. 01:05:33.000 --> 01:05:38.000 We also were able to put in our own brick. 01:05:38.000 --> 01:05:43.000 So a little bit about Big Architects Ego here referring to what Marcin said. 01:05:43.000 --> 01:05:53.000 We had another project, Unicity in Kiev. There used to be a factory which was moved from Munich, a BMW factory. 01:05:53.000 --> 01:06:04.000 During Soviet times, factory buildings were being built. 01:06:04.000 --> 01:06:11.000 One of the Ukrainian oligarchs spotted and asked us to prepare the plan. We started with this initial sketch. 01:06:11.000 --> 01:06:17.000 It was supposed to be a very multi-function from residential all the way to innovation. 01:06:17.000 --> 01:06:24.000 Later we've prepared a very detailed distinction of functions. 01:06:24.000 --> 01:06:39.000 Then we defined the most important places. On the right hand side you can see how we tried to define inflation services, how to make services more dense. 01:06:39.000 --> 01:06:48.000 So that life would be there around the clock and yet would not disturb residents. 01:06:48.000 --> 01:06:56.000 This is what it was supposed to look like. These are two renderings. That's the way it looks like now. 01:06:56.000 --> 01:07:09.000 It was stopped by the war, unfortunately. It's an exceptional place, a unique place, special for the residents of the city. 01:07:09.000 --> 01:07:20.000 It's a crystal building. Unfortunately it's one of the few buildings which was hit by a Russian rocket. 01:07:20.000 --> 01:07:27.000 There was supposed to be a school there as well. A small university was also to be built. 01:07:27.000 --> 01:07:32.000 The most recent picture from right before the war was very cold. 01:07:32.000 --> 01:07:39.000 January, a couple of weeks before the war started, we were selecting materials but unfortunately Russians attacked. 01:07:39.000 --> 01:07:47.000 Take a look at the tower on the right hand side was hit by a rocket. A telephone tower later. We had a beautiful man. 01:07:47.000 --> 01:07:53.000 It says the tower stood and we are going to stand too. 01:07:53.000 --> 01:08:04.000 I was there in November last year during the war. It was a very moving experience, a very moving visit, especially since my colleagues were looking at the model. 01:08:04.000 --> 01:08:13.000 The model is very popular. They invite many celebrities, there are many important people, and telling them how wonderful it's going to be in Ukraine after the war. 01:08:13.000 --> 01:08:22.000 And it draws a lot of life. It's full of life. It's quite incredible actually. 01:08:22.000 --> 01:08:35.000 And this is what we work for. And it's summing up what we would like, looking from this in-between vantage point. 01:08:35.000 --> 01:08:41.000 As I've said, I'm thinking about a game here. All of us play a game. 01:08:41.000 --> 01:08:50.000 We all play our own game. We architects are after our own ego or fame or money. We are one of the participants in the game. 01:08:50.000 --> 01:09:00.000 We are the kids ourselves. Of course we also try to share certain values, values of the society in special form. 01:09:00.000 --> 01:09:10.000 Now the cities which we co-create, what's most important, they're supposed to generate emotions, they're supposed to generate life. 01:09:10.000 --> 01:09:18.000 What we are doing, what we are building is as important as the life that is going to go on. 01:09:18.000 --> 01:09:28.000 And to finish, I think I made it on time, about dreams. I have a dream. We all know that quote. 01:09:28.000 --> 01:09:36.000 I'd like a metropolis, and I'm using the Gnsk motor. 01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:46.000 So in between bravery and vision, vision of the type of Brazil and the fear of the future conservatism, being in between there. 01:09:46.000 --> 01:09:58.000 So diverse, but without monovision. I would like to see metropolis between the past and the future open to the future in fact. 01:09:58.000 --> 01:10:08.000 But we don't know what the future is going to be. I dream of a metropolis in balance between the various participants of the game, 01:10:08.000 --> 01:10:14.000 between the economic interest and the spatial structure between ecology and social good. 01:10:14.000 --> 01:10:27.000 I dream of green spaces, ecological places, cities nevertheless, which are developing a dream of beautiful cities full of life. 01:10:27.000 --> 01:10:37.000 And despite such things as another project in the view in Ukraine, or a caliber rocket hit, and a picture from Kiev, 01:10:37.000 --> 01:10:44.000 which I would like to end with. This is what we work for so that people can enjoy these places, work there, live there. Thank you. 01:10:44.000 --> 01:10:48.000 Thank you for this presentation with a lot of hope and dreams. 01:10:48.000 --> 01:10:58.000 I was never supposing that I'm going to say this, but we share the same idea. I also always talk about a game when I had to explain what I'm doing on my project. 01:10:58.000 --> 01:11:05.000 I'm always comparing to the chess game because I still add the one element of a game scale. 01:11:05.000 --> 01:11:08.000 We do have to change the whole term of the way how we look at. 01:11:08.000 --> 01:11:19.000 We have to be able to carry the huge scale like a scale of a chess, but also in the same moment, we have to be able to play with one element, 01:11:19.000 --> 01:11:23.000 building the houses for the people where they feel themselves home. 01:11:23.000 --> 01:11:32.000 Now I would like to invite the last speaker of today, architect Tomasz Konior. 01:11:32.000 --> 01:11:40.000 Thank you very much, Piotr. Thank you very much for inviting me to this conference. I feel honored. 01:11:40.000 --> 01:11:50.000 I love coming to Gdansk. The picture you can see here is the one I took today, is the one from the railway station. 01:11:50.000 --> 01:11:55.000 I simply had this feeling, "Gee, look how beautiful it is." 01:11:55.000 --> 01:12:04.000 I'm from Wojciechowsky, I'm called Buma, and I'm at the Gdynia conference that sounded like a compliment, particularly from him. 01:12:04.000 --> 01:12:11.000 I believe that I will stick to this opinion today, too, because I'm going to talk about time. 01:12:11.000 --> 01:12:19.000 Time, for me, is one of the most important issues you can touch upon when talking about architecture. 01:12:19.000 --> 01:12:29.000 We say that time is the fourth dimension of architecture, and I will try to talk about it, trying to ask questions at the same time. 01:12:29.000 --> 01:12:37.000 The title itself has a form of a question. Questions appear to be vital for us architects. 01:12:37.000 --> 01:12:46.000 We should keep asking them and asking a lot of them, rather than provide arbitrary answers. 01:12:46.000 --> 01:12:56.000 Let me start with something that, in terms of time, has a very clear significance to, and a half thousand years ago. 01:12:56.000 --> 01:13:09.000 For me, you know, if I pronounce the name right, designed one of the pyramids in Giza, two and a half thousand years ago. 01:13:09.000 --> 01:13:20.000 Nearly four and a half thousand years later, Young Pay designed a pyramid in Luba. Paris is a special place. 01:13:20.000 --> 01:13:35.000 It's an essence of numerous cultures present in a single place that are represented very distinctly at Leilei. 01:13:35.000 --> 01:13:46.000 I believe we all had a very strong, sad feeling when we saw that the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, 01:13:46.000 --> 01:13:54.000 an architectural legacy of Europe, many ideas arose. 01:13:54.000 --> 01:13:58.000 What to do about it, one is shown in the middle. 01:13:58.000 --> 01:14:10.000 How modern they can become something more than traditional continuation. 01:14:10.000 --> 01:14:17.000 Luckily, while I'm asking a question here, the cathedral is being reconstructed. 01:14:17.000 --> 01:14:24.000 Of course, it used to undergo a variety of interventions, but tradition and continuation. 01:14:24.000 --> 01:14:34.000 Evolution, rather than revolution, should be synonymous to the values in architectural space. 01:14:34.000 --> 01:14:39.000 I love this place. Probably many of you know it. 01:14:39.000 --> 01:14:46.000 This is a place that was created in the Middle Ages. 01:14:46.000 --> 01:14:52.000 It might be some thousand years ago, but it's still vibrant with life and constitution, 01:14:52.000 --> 01:14:56.000 a continuation of the past traditions. 01:14:56.000 --> 01:14:59.000 It takes place in Siena twice a year. 01:14:59.000 --> 01:15:03.000 There's great as a wall square, where it's a little campfire. 01:15:03.000 --> 01:15:14.000 That's a phenomenon that actually touches me and moves me in an incredible way. 01:15:14.000 --> 01:15:23.000 When I think how enormously people actually came up with a great idea, 01:15:23.000 --> 01:15:30.000 even though there is not a single tree there, or even when we travel, there's a dominance of concrete. 01:15:30.000 --> 01:15:33.000 But for some reasons, such places are great to live in. 01:15:33.000 --> 01:15:35.000 Now back to Paris. 01:15:35.000 --> 01:15:43.000 This is a city that has had, again, different experiences. 01:15:43.000 --> 01:15:48.000 It's rather safe from what you can see on the right-hand side. 01:15:48.000 --> 01:15:58.000 It was a Sheik Hwasan plan in 1922. 01:15:58.000 --> 01:16:05.000 Within it, we imagine the center of Paris to be demolished. 01:16:05.000 --> 01:16:12.000 Modernists are in great strength in actually demolishing. 01:16:12.000 --> 01:16:16.000 And replacing it with their ideas. 01:16:16.000 --> 01:16:20.000 Well, that idea failed by George Hausmann. 01:16:20.000 --> 01:16:34.000 During the times of Napoleon, he rebuilt Paris in such a way that it was turned into a contemporary metropolis back then. 01:16:34.000 --> 01:16:49.000 What he did, and it's very important and unfortunately forgotten about later, is that those contemporary boulevards actually were intertwined with the existing structure, 01:16:49.000 --> 01:16:56.000 leading to the preservation of what used to be, though, of what still was present actually. 01:16:56.000 --> 01:17:06.000 And that shows how important the time is, and the adding of new layers to the places we inhabit is important, 01:17:06.000 --> 01:17:19.000 because that adds up to us creating the authenticity, authenticity about what is the very essence of the urban spirit. 01:17:19.000 --> 01:17:24.000 Now, in every cities like Paris, I came to you from Katowice today, a city in southern Poland, 01:17:24.000 --> 01:17:31.000 again from a place that is called a metropolis, the Upper Silesian Metropolis. 01:17:31.000 --> 01:17:38.000 Katowice are a relatively young city. 01:17:38.000 --> 01:17:50.000 It is a city that doesn't have a long record, but actually it has experienced a number of interventions in its structure and substance, 01:17:50.000 --> 01:17:54.000 and that's a, there is a difference I'd like to compare. 01:17:54.000 --> 01:17:56.000 Both examples are modernist. 01:17:56.000 --> 01:18:02.000 One comes from the 20th century, the one on the left-hand side. 01:18:02.000 --> 01:18:13.000 Back then, the most modern solutions in architecture were applied to what was a very classical district. 01:18:13.000 --> 01:18:19.000 You've got a whole quarter of buildings there that are mapped. 01:18:19.000 --> 01:18:23.000 There were no previous developments, but just squares and parks. 01:18:23.000 --> 01:18:32.000 In the times of modernism in the 70s, the synergy was abandoned and single, separate, isolated structures were erected. 01:18:32.000 --> 01:18:42.000 The example on the right-hand side shows the so-called super unit in Katowice, Superjednostka. 01:18:42.000 --> 01:18:53.000 There are nearly 500 plus, nearly 4,000 people live there, the lift stops every third floor. 01:18:53.000 --> 01:19:03.000 This is an example of this refurbition that occurred in architecture at one point that I believe, even until now, takes its toll. 01:19:03.000 --> 01:19:13.000 And I mean it because the cities are not so well structured as they used to be. 01:19:13.000 --> 01:19:17.000 I work in Katowice and I learnt to love the city. 01:19:17.000 --> 01:19:26.000 When I came the 30 years ago, I thought that, you know, I, me appearing there actually is a form of a punishment. 01:19:26.000 --> 01:19:35.000 But what we do is a music for Academy in Katowice. So this project we try to bring together two aspects that are very close to my heart. 01:19:35.000 --> 01:19:39.000 So we wanted to bring together the city and music. 01:19:39.000 --> 01:19:49.000 And we contributed to developing what used to be the artistic craft school that they call Malbork, another town in Poland. 01:19:49.000 --> 01:20:00.000 But what was created at the back is a new part and within this new part we work and that also shows the ego. 01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:11.000 We like to look at what we've created and in a way the places that we designed were implemented. 01:20:11.000 --> 01:20:16.000 They now constitute part of the city. 01:20:16.000 --> 01:20:26.000 Yesterday I attended a concert by Charles Amelien, a Canadian, in this very academy in this hall. 01:20:26.000 --> 01:20:36.000 And I'm hugely satisfied listening to this music and observing how the city works on a daily basis, how this place works. 01:20:36.000 --> 01:20:46.000 This is my team, Kojnar Studio. I had to show you the people that I work with without them. 01:20:46.000 --> 01:20:58.000 Nothing would have been created so far. These are female and male colleagues of mine with whom we can talk about what constitutes the greatest values in architecture. 01:20:58.000 --> 01:21:06.000 We can ask those questions in this group of entrusted people or those that we can really confide in. 01:21:06.000 --> 01:21:14.000 There are certain inspirations that come as points of reference. These are the things that I'm showing you now. 01:21:14.000 --> 01:21:24.000 But back to Katowice, in 2006 a competition was held concerning the new centre of the city. 01:21:24.000 --> 01:21:35.000 That actually very clearly has this impact of modernism in it. It's very much present there. 01:21:35.000 --> 01:21:44.000 And actually a strong dispute was held among architects. 01:21:44.000 --> 01:21:54.000 Among architects there were some that were enthusiastic about the period, about the Athens Charter and anything that followed as a result of this manifesto. 01:21:54.000 --> 01:22:01.000 They rebelled against something that today starts gaining momentum yet again. 01:22:01.000 --> 01:22:13.000 Namely that a city is a certain sustainable, dense organism taking into account the needs of everybody. 01:22:13.000 --> 01:22:25.000 And an urban structure that deserves attention. Of course in its contemporary form, but it should be certainly treated as a point of reference. 01:22:25.000 --> 01:22:40.000 Professor Lawrence is showing me to be wrapping up and I will just show you a quick overview of what we've been doing and how that fits into the city. 01:22:40.000 --> 01:22:50.000 This is a tour from this whole, the so-called "spodak" that led us towards our Katowice Stonehenge. 01:22:50.000 --> 01:23:06.000 That draws inspiration from tradition and is looking for inspiration in how buildings used to be erected in Silesia. 01:23:06.000 --> 01:23:20.000 This legacy of coal mines is now seen in the buildings that are being created and they do not serve industry anymore, but for cultural purposes. 01:23:20.000 --> 01:23:30.000 This is a certain history that is going on in Lospora, which is the new seat of the radio. It's a music hall now. 01:23:30.000 --> 01:23:41.000 This is Joseph Rikwet, who passed away this year and he's my mentor and I certainly recommend his books. 01:23:41.000 --> 01:23:52.000 Our experience is related with making sure that a certain tradition is continued, of course taking new demands into account. 01:23:52.000 --> 01:24:01.000 There are stretches of our experiences of other places, Warsaw, another building related to music, but a city one. 01:24:01.000 --> 01:24:11.000 We do not create any pastiche here, but we try to add yet another layer to what we found there. 01:24:11.000 --> 01:24:36.000 The ultimate goal is always music and whatever goes with it. Music to me, music in a city, is a pretext to meetings and actually the fact that you can provoke meetings to be held in a given space that we shape is really important to us. 01:24:36.000 --> 01:24:45.000 In the library in Warsaw, one of the flagship modernist projects implemented. 01:24:45.000 --> 01:25:01.000 The way it was when I found it prior to the competition, it was several thousand square meter area of a single function. 01:25:01.000 --> 01:25:07.000 We had a chance to rebuild it because we won the competition. 01:25:07.000 --> 01:25:30.000 And what we wanted to do is to give it a certain functionality that it was prior beforehand, but still preserve those elements that constitute its value and that show its authenticity and respect what it used to be. 01:25:30.000 --> 01:25:44.000 So respectfully, but without inferiority complex, we created a space that now is being filled with greenery and it creates something that is on the verge of in this and out. 01:25:44.000 --> 01:25:59.000 The palace of the Republic of Poland is what used to be the Kraszynski Palace that after the war looked this way till man down gamma the 16th century. 01:25:59.000 --> 01:26:08.000 Continuing the work of such an outstanding architect comes is a great responsibility burden or responsibility. 01:26:08.000 --> 01:26:13.000 We are very happy that this building lives that it is accessible to visitors. 01:26:13.000 --> 01:26:19.000 I went the last weekend because I love looking at how such buildings keep on leaving a living. 01:26:19.000 --> 01:26:24.000 There is a great exhibition related to Herbert. 01:26:24.000 --> 01:26:29.000 I certainly recommend a visit. 01:26:29.000 --> 01:26:43.000 I also encourage you to take a look at how with our architecture we try to fit in to what we have found in a given area given place. 01:26:43.000 --> 01:26:48.000 We really treat architecture as evolution and continuation. 01:26:48.000 --> 01:27:03.000 The latest project of ours that we've only started implementing in reality in space, we hope that it will add some life to the center of Katowice and will make us enjoy the place even more. 01:27:03.000 --> 01:27:17.000 The relics of the past revitalization, giving the second or third life to the buildings is something that we love doing and will keep on doing that with great satisfaction in the future. 01:27:17.000 --> 01:27:27.000 And then I'll see John Paul this time from Krakow, the Musical Academy or the campus of the Musical Academy. 01:27:27.000 --> 01:27:33.000 It also searches for points of reference and for what it will be like in the future. 01:27:33.000 --> 01:27:43.000 It looks for certain urban archetypes and patterns that will make it possible for us to create a certain space. 01:27:43.000 --> 01:27:52.000 It will be a city in a city that students, professors, but also visitors, guests will be benefiting from. 01:27:52.000 --> 01:27:59.000 You might be just a passerby taking a stroll along the Vistula River and just up in there. 01:27:59.000 --> 01:28:10.000 Time, time in architecture and actually the ambiguity of the phrase I used in the title, namely, expiry date. 01:28:10.000 --> 01:28:28.000 Both in reference to time and to the values in architecture, this is something that I would like to leave you with and probably asking questions will still be a subject of our meetings 01:28:28.000 --> 01:28:33.000 that probably will continue after the official closure of today. 01:28:33.000 --> 01:28:47.000 So often we meet with young people in our office, we ask them questions, they ask questions and we certainly hope that education is something that will bet on in our future activity. 01:28:47.000 --> 01:28:49.000 Thank you very much. 01:28:49.000 --> 01:28:56.000 I'd like to thank all the speakers and those of you who have stayed with us until the very end. 01:28:56.000 --> 01:28:59.000 This is the closing for today. 01:28:59.000 --> 01:29:07.000 I do apologize for the delay, but I think that we certainly owe the words of gratitude to our speakers. 01:29:07.000 --> 01:29:09.000 Thank you. 01:29:12.000 --> 01:29:22.000 [BLANK_AUDIO]