Presentation of Comarch at the WAF 2018
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This
story begins nearly one hundred years ago, in 1920 .
[Town
of Lodz] Lodz City Council gave building permit
for small factory located on the back border of corner plot.
Back
fire wall of this building will be a small hero
of our story.
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The
design had some elements of Art Nouveau but completed building was more
eclectic.
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Five
years later [Town Hall] City Council draw a new street running diagonally [by] across regular grid plan of Lodz.
That
was the reason of new regulation
line and refusal of building
permit for front corner town house.
But
on two sharp corner plots formed by new diagonal
street [on] in late twenties [was] were built [by] two
modernistic townhouses.
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Elevations
and layouts as examples of new architectural period.
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The
small factory stood alone until [to] 21st
century.
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In
the fifties it was adapted [on] for the
offices, in the sixties was adapted [on]
for the
Faculty of Archaeology, University of
Lodz .
The
façades have been plastered , windows have been changed and nobody knew how it
looked like.
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In
1935 our factory was extended to side wall [for]
with a small
outbuilding.
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When
we demolished it eighty years later we discovered a
small preserved part of original elevation.
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Elements
of urban context :
- factory
- two modernistic townhouses on the sharp corner plots
- park
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- side and back wall of the [fabric] factory as main component of the big entrance and main hall
- main composition elements – factory, part [on] in scale of neighbourhood , glazed high part with
sharp corner .
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- main [layouts] floor plans
- section
- compositional and construction autonomy of the [included]
incorporated building
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construction autonomy – project of diaphragm walls
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Section presenting autonomy in terms of composition and construction of the
factory.
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Diaphragm walls protecting the old building at the point of contact with
a designed underground garage.
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The preservation measures of our back wall under construction.
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The upper part of a building above the designed roof garden.
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New building left the former factory untouched by hanging over its roof.
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Because of fire safety reasons it was necessary to construct new floor
plates, but original wooden beams were disassembled and assembled again
together with cast iron pillars.
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The brick elevation begins its new life as a part of a double height
hall…
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…and here is our back wall defining its elongated part.
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The lower part of the new facility is in both street and factory scale
with a dominant opening that enables a direct view on the factory’s front
elevation. Above all there is a glass-coated edge of the upper part.
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With its rounded edge facing the opposite park.
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From the garden side continuing the line of factory’s main elevation.
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In the entrance hall we have proposed the same materials as on adjacent facades,
providing by this a context, kind of framework, for factory’s brick walls both
inside and outside.
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Substantial entrance opening with omnipresent park view.
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Distinction between the new and the old part is clearly visible in the
ceiling as well.
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The former factory with adjacent garden is present in every conference
room on all levels.
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Our protagonist in a new important role with a sign of once illegally
built windows, still separates two fire zones in the building.
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The park view present in corner rooms of the upper part
of new facility.
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Working space in the old factory.
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The greenery on the roof under the substantial overhang of the upper
part.
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And next to it.
