Warsaw Museum of Modern Art – Competition, Poland
2007-
Christian Kerez
winner

Warsaw Moma, Poland
International competition, Honor mention
2007
architects: Luca Nicoletti and Manfredi Nicoletti - Studio Nicoletti Associati
with: Fabrizio Tajani, S. Westrich, L. Bertoni
project team: A. Della Morgia, D. Altana, P.Onorato, P. Leone, D. De Santis renderings: Res Fictae
structural consultant: Mario Salabè



The idea of freedom is the symbolic message of the new Warsaw Museum of Modern Art.

The project is made up of two elements.

The Crystalline Container is an austere transparent parallelepiped protecting and revealing a strong dynamic space holding the many activities of the museum. The transparency of the "container" absorbs and renews the urban surroundings: The Marszalkowska Street and the Square dominated by a Stalinist-stile skyscraper, the tallest building in Warsaw and symbol of the Soviet oppression.

The large transparent cage seems hardly able to hold in two massive thunderbolts of free and overflowing forms, a metaphor for Polish untameable vitality.

The two Thunderbolts structures, which contain the specific museum activities shatter the immobility of the container; they break out towards the space outside; they both characterise and dispute the urban skyline.



The "Thunderbolts" create a spatial labyrinth of ever changing perspectives and colours.

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