The consistency of the void_Project book

The consistency of the void Students Daniela Calubini, Alessandra Claudia Ferrari, Antonia Razza Politecnico di Milano, Final Examination, June 26th 2019

“When I arrived in Warsaw at the beginning of January 1941, a desperate soldier of that war, the snow burdened the ruins and a grey mud covered the streets. German artillery and aerial bombardments had covered the pre-war metropolis become a customary spectacle in Europe: a large, prostrate city, standing walls showing traces of old houses, empty windows, bare expanses of rubble.�

[J. J. Heydecker and H. Boll, The Warsaw Ghetto: A Photographic Record 1941-1944]

“For contemporary man, the very idea of the ghetto appeared anchored to a past that had

In the period immediately before the Second World War, the ghettos already built, visited as if they were theatres by tourists, were looked at in this way, but this is still a very topical quotation today, 76 years after the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto.

The project area is a place steeped in pain, only imagine what it meant to live those years, those days, but he can also cling to the desire that all that never happens again in the world.

The intent was to re-emerge the memory, to make us talk about these events, to confront ourselves with large buildings that have survived all the evil.

Ulica Walicow tells a story, partly whispered and partly screamed, of people, who for a part of the story have been considered objects, but also of architecture, who have tried to cling to the ground as long as they could and in some cases, as in this, have made it. The but also a desire for redemption and liberation.

ABSTRACT

CHPT I THE CITY OF WARSZAWA

1935 1935 PRE-WORLD WAR II

The fabric of the city of Warsaw before, during and after the Second World War appears by the unstoppable events of history.

The city was built according to the principle of the court: the buildings contained within them beautiful courtyards, a resting place, a gathering place, small realities for citizens. With the war, the identity of the city and its inhabitants was totally destroyed. Warsaw today appears to be a now part of an expanding urban fabric that has completely changed the characteristics of the city.

A regeneration of the buildings of Ulica Walicow, who survived the destruction, is the starting point to restore dignity and life to a part of the city.

1940 GHETTO BORDERS

1945 WAR DESTRUCTION

2018 TODAY

1935

1945

2018 WOLA DISTRICT

CHPT II FUNDAMENTALS OF THE PROJECT

COURTYARD BUILDING SURVIVORS

COURTYARD BUILDINGS IN ULICA WALICÓW

The foundations of the project tell how the analysis city. In fact, we can see the presence of areas never built in the course of history, the court buildings that survived the Great War and all that missing urban fabric, whose traces have been eliminated to erase the collective memory of the people.

NOT BUILT Areas in the city never built

COURTYARDS Historical building typology

MISSING Bombarded buildings

FUNDAMENTALS TYPES OF VOID IN THE CITY

All this is translated into the project area of Ulica Walicow through the recognition of these three types of emptiness: it appears in fact an area where there were buildings bombed during the war, a part never built and the emptiness dictated by the sign of the courts that characterize the buildings.

SILENCE Traces of buildings that are no longer there

ABSENCE Ulica Walicòw area ever built

VACUUM Courtyard remaining and missing

FUNDATIONS VOID DECLENSIONS IN ULICA WALICÓW

TRACE OF THE RUINS Cellars of buildings that survived the bombing

PHYSICAL ABSENCE Evaluation project

VACUUM TRACES Leave the void of the courtyards

FIGURES VOID DECLENSIONS IN ULICA WALICÓW

The design action makes it possible to translate the emptiness of the courtyards into a substantial emptiness, a rebirth for the buildings and the neighbourhood; the silence following the bombing is instead brought to light, as if to make a hidden space speak again through architecture, art and culture. The enhancement of the ruins and remains of the buildings was the basis for the construction of the entire project with the intention of giving a new identity to a part of the city.

VALORIZATION OF THE RUINS Bring to light the ruins

GARDEN OF THE MEMORY Walk through the area to bring to memory

VACUUM Perception of empty volume

ACTIONS HOW THE PROJECT MODIFIES THE AREA

CHPT III PROJECT

EMPTY AREA

WALICÓW 10

Theatre

Residence for artists

WALICÓW 14

WALICÓW 12

Memorial

Residence for researchers

EMPTY AREA Garden of memory

AXONOMETRY

10 have been included functions pertaining to the artists to whom the residences are intended on the are designed as spaces where you can spend your free time, even for non-resident external users. The types of users that can be accommodated are the single artist who has at his disposal a studio with night and day area together, some apartments are instead designed for one or two artists with the possibility of atelier adjacent to the living area or include common areas for refreshment or relaxation.

WALICĂ“W 10 RESIDENCES FOR ARTISTS

Type 2

Type 1

Type 2

15 mq

24 mq

32 mq

Type 2 29 mq Type 1

APARTMENT TYPS FO

15 mq

Temporary Exhibition Space

Common Kitchen 16 mq Type 2 41 mq

Type 1_ Single Room

Type 3 50 mq

Relax Room

Common Kitchen

18 mq

Laundry

13 mq

35 mq

Distribution Space Shared toilet

9,5 mq

Type 2

Type 2

Type 2

Dining Area

27 mq

Common Room 24 mq Type 2 26mq

Type 1 18 mq

Type 1 18 mq

Type 2

16 mq

24 mq

Rehearsal Studio 82 mq

Temporary Exhibition Space

Band Room 28 mq

Sculpture Room 19 mq

83 mq

Children’s Workshop 45 mq

Painting Atelier

Poetry Class

84 mq

61 mq

Library Type 2

Type 1

Type 2

15 mq

24 mq

32 mq

102 mq

Type 2 29 mq Type 1

APARTMENT TYPS FOR ARTISTS

15 mq

orary Exhibition

Common Kitchen 16 mq Type 2 41 mq

Type 3 50 mq

Relax Room

Common Kitchen

18 mq

Laundry

13 mq

9,5 mq

Type 2

ype 2

Dining Area

7 mq

Common Room 24 mq Type 2 26mq

Type 1_ Single Room Type 2_ Single / Double Room with Atelier Type 3_ Artist’s apartment with family

Type 1

Type 1 18 mq 18 mq

Type 2

16 mq

24 mq

Rehearsal Studio 82 mq

Band Room

Distribution Space Shared toilet

TYPE 1 Single Room

ARTISTS

TYPE 2

Single / Double Room with Atelier

TYPE 3 Artist’s apartment with family

TYPE 1 Single Room

TYPE 2

Single / Double Room with Studio

TYPE 3 Researcher’s apartment with family

STUDENTS / RESEARCHERS

Building n.12 is intended for students and available, such as a library, conference room and bar, the latter also supporting the theatre. The theater dressing rooms of the artists for the show are located.

The residences accommodate single or double/triple students but there is also the possibility of having a researcher with family.

WALICĂ“W 12 RESIDENCES FOR RESEARCHERS

Actors’ dressing rooms 54 mq

APARTMENT TYPS FOR STUDENTS

Type 3 47 mq

Type 2 26 mq

Type 1

Actors’ dressing rooms 30 mq

Type 2

Type 2

35 mq

Laundry

29 mq

Common kitchen and dining area 35 mq

Type 1_ Single Room Type 2_ Double Room with studio Type 3_ Researcher’s apartment with family

Type 2

6 mq

33 mq

Bar

35 mq

Conferenze Room

Video Room

47 mq

56 mq

Storage 15 mq

Library 2 and study space

Study Space

50 mq

30 mq

Break Room Relax Space 15mq

Library 1 and study space 46 mq

Distribution Space Shared toilet

TYPE 1 Single Room

ARTISTS

TYPE 2

Single / Double Room with Atelier

TYPE 3 Artist’s apartment with family

TYPE 1 Single Room

TYPE 2

Single / Double Room with Studio

TYPE 3 Researcher’s apartment with family

STUDENTS / RESEARCHERS

In the building adjacent to the memorial outside the project area, a museum function has been inserted: the intention is to create an exhibition that can tell the stories of people who were born and raised in Warsaw in the war years and unfortunately have not managed to overcome those dark years but also the testimonies of those people who in one way or another have managed to escape the massacre. pensieve, a suggestive and emotional place.

The external memorial is instead designed as an observatory of what is a past that is trying to reemerge from the ground: through the footbridges at higher altitudes you can see the remains of the cellars of buildings that were once present at that point.

WALICĂ“W 14 MEMORIAL

Exhibition “To Freedom” 315 mq

Archive 325 mq

Thinking spot 136 mq

Exhibition “The faces of the art” 492 mq

Exhibition “Portraits” 492 mq

Exhibition “November 15 th 1940_ The disappearing city” 492 mq

Temporary Exhibition 186 mq

Reception and entrance 126 mq

Bar

47 mq

Bookshop 133 mq

Distribution Space Shared toilet

Photograph from: Joe Julius Heydecker and Heinrich Boll, The Warsaw Ghetto: A Photographic Record 1941-1944, I. B. Tauris , 1990

FIRST FLOOR THE DISAPPEARING CITY

“When in the ghetto I asked men to take headgear, even against the prescriptions of their religion, forced to do so by my uniform of the Wehrmacht. I had to ask them to put it back on.�

[J. J. Heydecker and H. Boll, The Warsaw Ghetto: A Photographic Record 1941-1944]

Photograph from: Joe Julius Heydecker and Heinrich Boll, The Warsaw Ghetto: A Photographic Record 1941-1944, I. B. Tauris , 1990

SECOND FLOOR PORTRAITS

“Before the deportations to the gas chambers of Treblinka began, there were even performances in the ghetto with improvised companies of Jewish artists�

[J. J. Heydecker and H. Boll, The Warsaw Ghetto: A Photographic Record 1941-1944]

Photograph from: Joe Julius Heydecker and Heinrich Boll, The Warsaw Ghetto: A Photographic Record 1941-1944, I. B. Tauris , 1990

THIRD FLOOR THE FACES OF THE ART

Almost enclosed by buildings 10, 12 and 14 is a ground, which allows from all sides to observe the ruins of the cellars below ground level that are made to re-emerge. This is accentuated by the inclination of the two long sides of the elevation as if to entice the gaze below the ground. The work in section is what best expresses the intent of the project where level from the ground is designed with a system of walkways that allow observation of the ruins and the ability to listen to prayers and songs. On the upper sort of square towards the city, spaces with bars and services where the viewer of the theater can observe the city from another perspective. The culmination is the terrace, which can be experienced both in winter and summer through an opening roof, and which can be used to host any open-air performances.

THEATRE

Thinking spot 128 mq

Public Terrace 982 mq

Bar

388 mq

Gallery 310 mq

Reception 300 mq

Auditorium 310 mq

Backstage 188 mq

Stage 94 mq

Square 108 mq

Temporary Exhibition Space 277 mq

CHPT IV DRAWINGS

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19.50

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4.50

1.40

0.00

19.50

17.00

8.30

4.50

1.40

0.00

24.70

1.40

0.00

THEATRE VIEW FROM ULICA ICCHOKA LEJBA PERECA

GARDEN OF THE MEMORY

OBSERVATORY

MAQUETTE

DANIELA CALUBINI ALESSANDRA CLAUDIA FERRARI ANTONIA RAZZA