date
2022
place
Krakow
surface
20 000 m²
investor
National Museum in Krakow
team
Tomasz Folwarsk
Wojciech Sumlet
Maciej Pitek
Dawid Stanek
David Dumitrescu
cooperation
consultation – prof. Witold Cęckiewicz (author of the original building)
phase
concept study
type
#public space
#commercial
In connection with the planned redevelopment of the former Hotel Cracovia, the National Museum in Krakow commissioned a “Programme and Spatial Study for the Conversion of the Former Hotel Cracovia Building to the Function of a Cultural Institution: a Museum or Model Centre for the Support of Creative Industries”. Important aspects were saving the part of the main body of the building in the ground floor, mezzanine and basement zones, the conservation of the mosaic in the main hall and on the mezzanine wall, as well as the design of the underground garage.
Great emphasis was placed on the reconstruction of the main body of the building in accordance with the applicable scope of conservation protection, including the preservation of the characteristic chequered composition on the front and south elevations. Restoring the original splendour of the building and saving its special compositional and aesthetic values by protection of artistic and historical values.
The Museum or the Model Centre for Supporting Creative Industries will require the development of a detailed functional-utility programme. The exhibition spaces require adequate height for the exhibition halls, which is not currently fulfilled due to the function of the hotel that the building previously had.
Proposed functions in the building: exhibition zones, workshops for creative artists, Design Forum, workshops for promotion of new technologies, cultural events, fashion shows ect.
The key element is to preserve the part of the building under total protection in an unchanged shape. In addition, restoration of the facades of the front and south elevations with a characteristic checkerboard composition and shaping a new structure of the building allowing to obtain large, open exposition spaces.
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