Structure studio WXCA has prolonged the Polish Military Museum in Warsaw, including a low-lying wing with coloured-concrete partitions which are imprinted with chevrons.
Named the South Constructing, the wing introduces one other everlasting exhibition area to the museum, in addition to extra areas to show its assortment of over 300,000 artefacts.
The Polish Military Museum and South Constructing kind part of Warsaw Citadel, a Nineteenth-century fortress in Poland’s capital metropolis.
In keeping with WXCA, the design and colouration of the South Constructing draw on the prevailing brick buildings on the location, together with the previous barracks of the Royal Foot Guards.
“Warsaw Citadel is a reasonably distinctive place – although is positioned very near the town centre, for the final 200 years the fortification has remained separated from the town and closed for residents and vacationers,” stated WXCA companion Szczepan Wroński.
“The present process transformation is meant handy this place again to the folks and create a spot of tradition, remembrance and recreation,” Wroński informed Dezeen.
The completion of South Constructing marks the top of the primary part of WXCA’s extension of the museum, which can even embrace the yet-to-be-built North Constructing.
Collectively, the elongated, low-lying types of the North and South Buildings will enclose the prevailing sq. on the location. The buildings have been designed to evoke a disciplined battle array.
“Our idea reaches out to the 18th-century spatial association of the Polish Royal Foot Guard barracks and centrally positioned sq.,” stated Wroński.
“The easy geometric and disciplined types of the South and the North Buildings and their compact organisation from two sides of the sq. are paying homage to a battle array structure not directly.”
The primary materials used all through the museum is concrete. It has a pink colouration that attracts on the brick partitions of the Warsaw Citadel.
To scale back the visible affect of the concrete, parts of the outside and inside partitions are imprinted with chevrons.
“We needed to melt the monumentality of the constructing and create a floor for a sculptural play of sunshine and shadow that modifications relying on the time of day and thus alters the general notion of the constructing,” Wroński defined.
“The chevron sample symbolically refers to army motives,” he added. “We meant to make this refined, oblique reference and let everybody have their very own interpretation of the chevron kind.”
As soon as full, the North Constructing can be of comparable dimension to the South Constructing, however it is going to additionally comprise an underground degree. There can be an exhibition space, an auditorium and a taking pictures vary for attempting vintage weapons.
One other aspect of the venture is the creation of an underground car parking zone, which is entered by way of a brand new gate to the Warsaw Citadel. This gateway punctures a historic brick wall and is topped by a inexperienced roof.
Different museums on Dezeen which are devoted to army- and military-related collections are the chrome steel Nationwide Museum of the USA Military by SOM in Virginia and the deconstructivist Museum of Army Historical past in Dresden by Daniel Libeskind.
The images is by Marcin Czechowicz.
