Designed by Chicago based architect Sean Lally, the World War Museum in Gdansk, Poland, serves two purpose. The first is to create a central exhibition core, a jewel box that contains the permanent and temporary exhibition space, continuously accessible from all sides along a loop lobby that encircles it.
The second is the location of the public programs associated with the museum’s urban context–conference, restaurant, hotel, library, and education facilites as well as an urban park–on the upper level rooftop, initiating a new city floor with views to the surrounding city, accessible year-round.
Making these outdoor public spaces attractive to visitors regardless of season requires the design of a climatic wash that can produce artificial micro climates and extend seasonal activities throughout the year. This wash is made possible by harnessing the energy dumps that inevitably occur in a building of this scale, which requires 900 m² of mechanical space and 11,000 m² of parking garage, both of which vent large amounts of heat and moisture, as well as the combined body heat of several thousand visitors a day. This climatically elastic and unique new city floor is the resource for the museum and the city of Gdansk as a whole.
Upon exiting the elevators from the museum level, the new city floor opens up a new visual perspective of Gdansk. The lobby elevators at the north entrance access the library, which looks directly onto the park and garden with views to the city beyond.
The ground of the park is covered primarily in brightly colored tiles, which move up seamlessly to become the facades of the public buildings and fade to the transparency of stained glass at their peaks. At night, these tiled windows glow from within and become beacons of light visible from the entire city. The system that collects, harnesses, and redeploys the building’s expelled energy is located underfoot, working underneath and through the mosaic to create the microclimates of the new city floor.
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