Housing
architects. Vera Yanovshtchinsky and Marek Świerczyński
finished. 2001
This housing development is extremely well composed into the urban fabric which at this point in the city is quite complicated. The architects had to deal with a busy intersection, one of the most prestigious plazas in the city, the Skarpa (bluff) and the park that lies along it. The apartment masses were broken into three individual buildings set into a landscape that blends seemlessly with the park. A more public building, with offices, by the same developer faces the busy plaza while the housing is set further back. The buildings have slightly varrying geometries in plan but follow the same basic principle a curved wall covered in glass and balconies that faces the parks and slope of the bluff and a more massive sandstone wall that faces the city. In this way the buildings protect the privacy of the inhabitants. It is one of a handful of recent housing projects in the city designed with such attention to detail.
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