Instead of a scaled-down road system - a new piece of the city with skyscrapers and a public library. This is what the Kliniczna interchange in Gdansk, near the Gdansk Politechnika SKM station, could look like. The city has settled a student competition for the development of the 21-hectare site at the junction of four districts of Gdansk: Upper Wrzeszcz, Lower Wrzeszcz, Młyniska and Aniołki.
Built back in the 1970s in Gdańsk's Młyniska district, the Kliniczna junction takes up a huge amount of space and is a torment for pedestrians.
The Kliniczna interchange was designed primarily for fast, collision-free long-distance road transport of goods, but it has created a number of spatial barriers, including optical and psychological ones permanently separating neighborhoods and excluding a huge area of the city's centrally located districts from the possibility of other development, the competition study reads.
reclaim a piece of the city
That's why there has been talk in the city for years about the need to rebuild the junction and consolidate the space by developing it anew. The freed land can be used for housing, services and greenery. How the area might change is being analyzed as part of the Grunwald Avenue Strip Study, being developed from 2022 by the Office of the City Architect and the Gdansk Development Bureau.
Kliniczna junction
Photo: Piotr Wittman/www.gdansk.pl
Now the Kliniczna junction has also been taken to the wallpaper by architecture and urban planning students in a competition organized by the City of Gdansk in cooperation with the Fahrenheit Association of Universities. The students of the Gdansk University of Technology presented innovative visions for transforming the space after the planned elimination of the current traffic-free interchange. The first place and the prize of PLN 10 thousand gross was won by the work "Gate to Wrzeszcz", team: Paulina Jesionowska, Dawid Grabski, Konrad Jasiewicz. The young designers designed a transport-oriented high-rise complex with a public library inspired by Scandinavian solutions.
First prize
Author team: Paulina Jesionowska, Dawid Grabski, Konrad Jasiewicz
inspiration for planning works
The jury emphasized that the awarded work stands out for its consistency, consistent approach and clear presentation of the urban planning concept. It added that the project thoughtfully combines urban structures of different history, function and scale, creating a compact, multifunctional development. Appreciated was the rational development of space, the formation of attractive building sequences and the phased connection of Wrzeszcz with the shipyard areas.
Of particular value is the clear and collision-free transportation system, taking into account public transportation and pedestrian and bicycle traffic. The high level of workshop and synthetic presentation make the project an important analytical material for future planning work, the jury noted.
Second place (equivalent) - PLN 6,000 gross
Work No. 6
Author team:
- Anna Białowska
- Olga Tarnacka
- Joanna Zajączkowska
Work no. 11
Author team:
- Juliusz Adamowicz
- Tymoteusz Gzela
- Maciej Hirsz
Third place (equivalent) - PLN 4,000 gross
Artwork no. 8
Author team:
- Emilia Przybysz
- Piotr Warżała
- Olga Wiszniewska
Work No. 10
Author team:
- Sandra Arim
- Aleksandra Czyzewska
- Karolina Bienkowska
- Gabriela Wysocka
