Dobra 55: The Modern Languages Building
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Dobra 55: The Modern Languages & Applied Linguistics Building

KURYŁOWICZ & ASSOCIATES como Arquitetos

Dobra 55 has become a pioneering new home for language education where the University of Warsaw has consolidated their varying requirements into a single sustainable center of excellence. The new 42 000 m2 building includes 92 ‘language labs’, 70 administrative rooms, 39 research and development rooms, 7 conference rooms, recreational spaces, a multimedia room that can accommodate 150 people as well as a library and reading areas, the project unites the universities’ linguistics departments into one location and brings a high level of transparency to the traditionally enclosed urban courtyard block, creating a green heart for the Powiśle riverbank district campus community.

photo_credit Nate Cook Photography
Nate Cook Photography
photo_credit Nate Cook Photography
Nate Cook Photography

The recently completed new extension (phase II) for the Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics building has four overground and two underground levels with a gross area of circa 28 700 m², which is nearly twice as big as the first phase of the building which has also been designed by our studio and completed in 2012, with an area of 13 500 m2. Both phases constitute one unitary building structure.

photo_credit Nate Cook Photography
Nate Cook Photography
photo_credit Nate Cook Photography
Nate Cook Photography

Embracing the university by connecting the main campus with the riverside neighborhood and its much-loved library, the transparent facade opens the building up to its immediate neighborhood and its surrounding nature. Its Wislana street elevation with a shimmering glazed skin, which exposes its concrete structure and which is punctured by a series of courtyards, the design bursts with communal energy.

photo_credit Nate Cook Photography
Nate Cook Photography
photo_credit Nate Cook Photography
Nate Cook Photography

Accessible to all, the building provides a generous urban entrance in which the street corner is set back to form an entrance plinth and breakout spaces for every visitor to the building. Next, the spatial sequences continue with a flight of theatrical stairs which form a back bone and a social ‘connector’ throughout the remaining floors.  This ‘connector’ starts at the street level and ends at the rooftops of the neighborhood with views over the city.  The completed building is homogeneous in terms of its architectural form and in relation to the materials adopted, in particular this applies to solutions both for the mass and the material decisions regarding the facades of the building. 

photo_credit Nate Cook Photography
Nate Cook Photography
photo_credit Nate Cook Photography
Nate Cook Photography

The building not only strives for state-of-the-art teaching facilities, but also for an innovative way of tackling climate change.  It does so via renewable energy and energy saving solutions.  These include: heat pumps with ground heat exchangers, and the use of photovoltaic panels. The project also incorporates the use of energy-efficient chillers, energy-saving lighting systems and use of rainwater for garden irrigation.

photo_credit Nate Cook Photography
Nate Cook Photography
photo_credit Nate Cook Photography
Nate Cook Photography

The interior space should make visitors feel like they have entered in to an exciting atmosphere. Within the grey hinterland of Powiśle, amongst its shopfronts and gardens, we can observe the spirit of a fragment of a city which has been growing as an organic part of the capital.  Therefore, it was important to make the inside of the building an extension of the neighboring context with a touch of something completely new. The unexpected yellows of the building raises the visitors interest as to what else may be encountered. Here yellow isn’t just a color, but a promise of a kind of life, to which the education in this building may lead.

photo_credit Nate Cook Photography
Nate Cook Photography
photo_credit Nate Cook Photography
Nate Cook Photography

The architecture of the Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics building is based on lightness, with a refined framework of steel, concrete and glass.  The building plays a game consisting of blurring the tangible boundaries of its mass and rendering superfluous the reading of a single solid volume into something more poetic. 

photo_credit Nate Cook Photography
Nate Cook Photography
photo_credit Nate Cook Photography
Nate Cook Photography

Functionality includes:

92 "language laboratories"
70 administrative rooms,
39 development rooms,
7 halls
Garage for 120 bicycles

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Team:

1. Architect: Kuryłowicz & Associates
2. Konstruktor (Structural Engineer) – KIP
3. Instalacje (M&E) – Roger Preston
4. landscape Architect: Dorota Pape
5. Photography: Nate Cook Photography

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Materials used:

1. Fasady: Aurubis.Trespa
2. Ślusarka aluminiowa: ALUPROF 
3. Posadzki dywanowe: IVC
4. Płytki gresowe: V&B, RAKO
5. Okładziny: Fundermax
6. Sufity: , ALTEZA

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