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Silesian Museum in Katowice

YEAR
2007

CLIENT
Silesia Museum

LOCATION
Katowice, PL

PROGRAM
urban planning, public space, museum

AREA
30500 sqm

STATUS
competition, special mention

TEAM
Budcud: Mateusz Adamczyk, Michał Palej + Marek Rytych, Maciej Kronenberg

Silesian Museum in Katowice


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For a new Silesia museum on the post-mining area in Katowice we proposed a landscape concept that emphasizes the region’s identity. Leaving the ground untouched, we moved the museum volume underground.

A grand window visible from the street suggests there is an art life underground, but the site’s silhouette with its Warsaw shaft and mining buildings is not disturbed.

The new museum forms a plateau for historical buildings, granting them priority. It is a contemporary, contextual volume – inscribed in existing topography and history of the region.