Work submitted for the competition
"Best Interior Diploma 2022/2024".
Wislawa Szymborska, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, has become the patron saint of the year 2023. The 100th anniversary of the writer's birth, is associated with a return to the foundation of what united many hearts - poetry.
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The location of the project is a place closely associated with lyricism - the Gdansk Shakespeare Theater. The two-story, free-standing element is located at the main entrance to the theater. The first floor houses an information desk with a café and stands for working with books. The second floor houses a mezzanine, a seminar room with a poetry performance area and workshop space.
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The second part́ of the pavilion arranges a viewing terrace for a chronological journey through the writer's biography. The final element is the author's interpretation of an audiosound of the poem "Cat in an Empty Apartment" in the narrow courtyard of the theater corridor. The main idea of the project is to materialize the process of writing poetry by Wislawa Szymborska. The structure of the building block is a configuration of multiplied cubic forms, which form furniture buildings and have a display function. The skeleton of these modular partitions, houses cubbies that hide caches of the writer's lyric works.
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The built-in, interactive structures allow users to interact with the architecture in a tangible way. The inspiration for designing such a form came from the lotteries, a moment of poetry evenings during which Wislawa Szymborska gifted guests with random objects.
Central to the design is a system of partitions that rotate 360 degrees around a central axis. The flexible architecture opens and closes to the outside according to the user's intentions. The interior of these partitions on the first floor exposes the disorder of the Nobel Prize winner's verses.
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Wislawa's work is also represented by an interior wall of anteresoli on the second floor of the main pavilion. It consists of rotating plaques with quotes engraved in wood. The interior of the pavilion shows the handwriting character of the original prototypes of Szymborska's lyrical works, filled with crossed-out lines and handwritten annotations. The arrangement of the viewing terrace is a chronological journey through the writer's biography. Similar in construction to the structure of the main pavilion, the inner wall of the viewing balcony is divided by footbridges that allow access over the space with an audiosound.
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The form directly translated into the language of architecture is the piece "Cat in an Empty Apartment," which is a lyrical reflection on sadness, emptiness and death. The long, narrow and high corridor at the main entrance to the theater is meant to maximize the user's impression of loneliness upon entering. A key element is the sound interpretation of the piece along with the animation of the presented world. The visitor, mainly becomes acquainted with the poem through the sense of hearing. The scenography of the space is poor, the base element is a black and white animation projected on the anthracite floor, which can be observed by visitors located on the viewing terrace.
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Wislawa Szymborska was known for her modesty, so the pavilion is limited in materials. It mainly consists of wood and canvas. The bleached oak manifests itself in the entire modular composition of the pavilion, the structural pillars and the exterior wall cladding. Wooden, covered with white paint, are the staircase, some of the furniture equipment, the structure's internal lockers and the mezzanine wall.
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On the first floor, the interior of the rotating partitions is a grid of words cut from metal. The roof is a structure that connects to the modular wall of the project in the same style. The ceiling is a plane of semi-transparent polyethylene panels attached to the pavilion's roof structure. The white is central to the whole project, it is the one that contrasts with the anthracite brick, which is an important supporting element, making the pavilion a light, bright structure against its background.
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