Bouwkunde

good school is like second home. this few words describe whole concept of this building. from the first sketches, the new bouwkunde, was intend to be as much student friendly as it could be. huge pressure was put on leisure and recreation areas, which are on almost every floor. however the epicenter of it was d on the lower parts of the building. the ground floor is a huge, public space consists of canteen, coffee bar, book store, exposition/exhibition zone, lounge zone and auditoriums. but the most interesting about this part of the building is concrete structure in the middle, which hides the meadow. this is a green area which raise between ground level and first floor and it is whole covered with grass. all of this is linked through the workshop with underground level, where building technologies laboratory could also be found. these two floors are the heart of the new bouwkunde. in the upper parts, building divides into two structures. the first one reach eleven storey and it was designed as a student part with library, computer rooms, lecture halls and open space studios. the second one has five storeys and consist of conference rooms, administration offices and professors rooms.

the new bouwkunde building has been designed as an eleven storey building with two volumes connected by huge, curved glass structure. this s several possibilities to decrease costs of maintenance. almost half of this surface is covered with solar panels. it gives almost 1500m2 of photovoltaic cells, which produce 4000kwh per day. by dint of this structure it was possible to a double façade circulation system. this increase efficiency of ventilation and gives natural insulation to the building. façades are covered with fibre c concrete panels and some of them are openable.

graduate: arch. Adam Wojtalik; promoter: prof. Marek Pabich

Bouwkunde by Adam Wojtalik in Netherlands won the WA Award Cycle 6. Please find below the WA Award poster for this project.