Basen Kultury / Cultural Pool (surrounding of the Zodiak pavilion)

design- Ryszard Rychlicki

location- Zodiak pavilion square, “Wiecha” passage, Warsaw, Poland

status- competition entry

year- 2015

Zodiak – archival pictures

ideogram

A – Zodiak pavilion square based on the original project (1959, Barbara Kaliszewska)

1. External stairs to the roof terrace

2. Pool with fountain

3. Roof with lighting

B – Circulation (original form of the square)

C – How to connect new cultural function of the pavilion with commercial surrounding?

D – Extension of the pavilion function by adding the surrounding space

E – Edge of the “pool” placed at the standard seating height – becomes part of the neighbouring functions

F – New scheme

2. “Cultural Pool”

3. Luminous frame with Zodiak neon

circulation & sight lines

section A-A

plan