The Museum of Scouting Movement at Fort 52 a ”Łapianka” in Kraków

3rd award at a competition for an architectural concept – October 2011

Authors: Marek Kozień, Ph.D. Arch., Magdalena Kozień-Woźniak, Ph.D. Arch., Katarzyna Kozień-Kornecka, M.Sc. Arch. Cooperation: Joanna Filipek, Magdalena Habrat-Rączka, Anna Kuszewska, Małgorzata Szewczyk, Marcin Gierbienis, Wojciech Miętka, Michał Rączka

Orderer: Management of Public Housing in Kraków

Plot area: 4.0 ha Development area: 2 654 m²

The designed object – as a place of realizing the activeness of various groups which participate in scouting movement as well as public access recreation – ought to become a friendly, open, flexible space integrated with the park greenery that surrounds it. This layout also requires wide opening and a connection with the surrounding functions as well as precise adjustment to the historical layout of the fortress object.

These programmatic assumptions define the authorial intentions adopted in this design:

to aim at creating an integrated complex of the objects of the Museum which consists of a historical and a newly designed part,
to recreate the basic principles determining the spatial formation of the fort,
to gain the effect of minimizing the impact of introducing the new cubature of the Museum on the original shape of the fortress grounds,
to incorporate the open areas of the woodland park into the influential range of the museum objects,
to create a maximally open and accessible park space,
to integrate the external and internal space of the museum,
to combine the open-access zone with the exhibition area spatially and functionally,
to create interiors with diverse heights and a considerable range of multifunctionality,
to introduce solutions in the architecture of the museum referring to the tradition of scouting movement as far as its form, material and standard are concerned.