Weaving Landscapes: Bringing the river back to the city

Weaving Landscapes: Bringing the river back to the city

Czynczyk, P.

Bier, H.H. (mentor)
Biloria, N.M. (mentor)
Sobota, M. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Architecture

Hyperbody

2014-11-03

Hyperbody graduation studio was focused on the exploration of the concept of Climatic Ecologies, in which the climatic relationships between the building and its context are the main concern in order to establish a synergistic relation between the architectural space and the environment. Within the framework of the studio, my project explores the case of the Vistula River passing through the city center of Warsaw in what is called a para-natural state, the only such case in Europe. After years of the city turning back to the river and neglecting its banks, Warsaw is now highly focused on creating a strategy for the redevelopment of the river channel in order to bring back its proper hydrological and ecological functioning, as well as to re-establish the relationship between the river and the citizens. As opposed to the city’s strategy, based on distinguishing highly urbanized parts of the channel from its natural sections, inaccessible to humans, my project aims to propose a local strategy on how could architecture be introduced in the river channel in a way that doesn’t compromise its proper functioning and, at the same time, creates a valuable architectural space devoted to recreation and education about the importance of the river for the city and its ecosystem. In this context, the project seeks for a way to weave the natural and architectural landscape for the benefits of both and explores what kind of architectural qualities such approach could bring.

landscape
river
Warsaw
education & observation

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Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2014 Czynczyk, P.