WARSAW AORTA
with Joanna Chojna, Ewelina Grochowska
I st Prize -
I st Prize -
Competition for the modernization and arrangement of the green area located on the southern side of the Palace of Culture and Science between Emilii Plater St., Jerozolimskie Al., Marszałkowska St. in Warsaw.
The aim of the project is to move both residents or random passersby to another world - fairy garden with blooming flowers, relaxation in the bosom of nature - sensations so different from the very center of a large city.
The main axis connecting the Warsaw Central Railway Station with Metro Centrum station is full of life every day passing crowds. In this context, AORTA seems like a very accurate term could be adopted as the common name of the place. Free, organic shaped lines of vegetation give softness to the urban landscape. Meadows full of wild flowers with pear trees evokes idyllic, rural landscapes, tall grass plantings evoke to mind the shores of lakes, and red bushes interspersed with a sea of roses some unknown lands. (In this way consciously shaped urban greenery breaks convention of traditional urban plantings, but nevertheless it alludes to the environment through finding the complete contrast and recalling rural landscape in the very center cities).
It is based on the idea of a garden in the city, that is together filled with half-wild nature, between the main points of the axis - the Railway Station Warszawa Centralna, Warszawa Śródmieście, Metro Centrum station are located spaces filled with organically growing vegetation, evoking in the users of it a feeling of slowing down, a rest from rushing city, immersing yourself visually in a completely different aesthetic than geometric, Istechnocratized spaces. That kind shaping the space allows you to feel the contrasts, city/nature - fast/slow - momentum/slow - so rare in the cityscape.
Project was only partly realised...
