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Anna Alicja Wojcik

Anna Alicja Wojcik

Shanghai, CN

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Cultural Center in Water Tower - Restoration and Adaptation

First phase of the project assumed creating a map of industrial monuments in Silesia, Poland. Connecting them in chain with fittable function to one another would let to save and restore the most valuable one.

Second part  consist of restoration and adaptation of water tower, building that is one of the objects worth to preserve in silesian district and symbolical place for gliwice city. The important part of the project is net made of corten steel that is separating space for center but is not hiding a tower and can be an encouragement to come inside. 

The tower building was repaired, conserve and adapt for the important part of industrial monuments map of silesia, which is Silesia Design. Huge tank on the top of the tower was designed for visual art space. Path to the tank was provide as a hanging ramp that is circularly placed around the main core of the tower.

 
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Status: School Project
Location: Gliwice, PL
My Role: Independent work at all project, with consultation about conservetion the tower.