Museum of Polish Technology in Cracow

The theme of my project is to create a public building, resulting from the constructivist game with elementary figures - intersecting at right angles, walls, beams and columns. An abstract composition reduced to simple optical structures of geometric shapes.

The Museum of Polish Technology, at the runway of the former Rakowice-Czy?yny Airport, is a continuation of the development of the Krakow engineering basin, which includes: the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Cracow University of Technology, the Krakow Technology Park-Czy?yny, the Aviation Museum together with the Cultural Park, the Museum of Municipal Engineering, the Team Schools of Environmental Engineering and Land Reclamation and the Campus of Cracow University of Technology. One underground floor and 4 above-ground floors were designed. The plate above the garage was partly designed in the form of an open public space, constituting a foreground for the main entrances to the building. The project was developed in accordance with the applicable building standards for culture, with a museum, exhibition, conference and office function along with the necessary technical facilities and infrastructure. The display part was designed in the south-eastern part of level +1 and on level +2. In this part, it is planned to separate the space for permanent and temporary exhibitions. Individual departments can create a single-space exhibition room or a divided space with free-standing partitions. The concept also assumes the possibility of temporarily separating the exhibition space using mobile walls. The height in the light of the exhibition halls is 5.50 m. The highest, third floor was intended for the gastronomy function and a small reading room for magazines. On the +1 floor, Polish inventions in the field of transport and astronomy will be exhibited, while on the second floor of military, cryptology, photography and optics. A parking lot with an area of 3099.94 m² was designed on the underground floor along with technical rooms, including archive, cleaning room, cloakroom, storage rooms, server room. The other auxiliary rooms were designed on levels 0 and +1, and they are rooms intended for museum employees. The office space is at level +1. An education zone has been designed on floor +2 — with an auditorium and workshop rooms