Cracow Music Academy
the new central campus
Architect
Parametric Designer
Cracow, Poland
17 000 m²
Marcel Holmberg
Marcin Olszowski
I was an architectural designer at PWD in Beijing, when Cracow Music Academy announced a competition for designing a new campus nearby the Vistula river.
A bird-view of the campus in the panorama of Cracow.
The main task was to prepare an architectural conception of a new campus that would respect the historical heritage of the Cracow, but present modern style.
The main plaza in the campus, seen from entrance to the great hall.
We decided to split all departments of the academy into isolated buildings, creating small plazas between them where integration could happen. I was directly responsible for providing a comprehensive concept of the main concert hall including acoustic optimization.
An interior space of the great concert hall.
Unfortunately, our conception was not chosen, for further development. Concluding, it was not wasted time. As it was our first project outside mainland China, it provided a great experience that proved to be useful in different projects that came in the future.
A bird-view presenting plazas between buildings.