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Inside Out

Part 2 Project 2005
Bartlomiej Hominski
Michal Jezierski
 Cracow University of Technology | Poland
‘out of sight, out of mind’
A typical building, even when accessible for people with disabilities in the terms of access, layout, and appropriate room size often remains inaccessible in the sense of non-existence in people’s conscience.

We turn the urban planning and architecture inside out.

In the urban scale we create clearly defined urban spaces (streets, plaza) with strongly articulated block boundaries, perforated though, for easier communication.

Architecturally, we exhibit the most visually and socially attractive functions for the public view. This will invite people to come in and join, to participate in the social life of the district.

Bartlomiej Hominski
Michal Jezierski

In the project accessibility has been interpreted not only as a physical phenomenon, for the apartments are also mentally accessible, providing views from the inside to the outside and from the outside to the inside, thereby overcoming the radical separation of solid walls.
I appreciate the innovative contributions to the apartments and the fine details such as the balconies in the trees. It must be a real pleasure for elderly people to sit in the trees over the public park and chat with their neighbors.

The project is rich in content, consistent and well carried through.

2005
Diagram illustrating the idea 'inside out'.
Site plan: unlike in neighboring blocks, the new meeting hall, considered as a public space, is the most remarkable and noticeable feature of the proposed complex.
Meeting hall’s roof is a part of an elevated public park; the view point over the snack bar offers a spectacular view into the Parvis de Saint Gilles.
Thanks to the pier-like terraces, from the private space of the apartments you can easily reach the public space of the park.
Early conceptual sketch for the pier-like terraces.
The meeting hall is nothing but a link between the park and the market.
Clearly defined block boundaries cut up with numerous passages.
Typical apartment with 2 bedrooms. Corner building, atypical apartment.
Widened street in the morning serves as a market extension.
People circulating in the glazed and exposed staircase, elevator shaft and circulation passage of the social facility leave no doubt, that these spaces are accessible for all.
Elevations.
The structure covering the market is subtle enough to enhance an air flow in the well lit parvis. It streches over both the exisitng and extended market. Dark granite band gathers visitors and leads them up to the view point over the meeting hall.
Section through the site.
Site plan.
Aerial view.
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