What does Robert Konieczny expect from urban space? What does Professor Bralczyk think about the word "toilet"? What animal secrets does Adam Wajrak know? Answers to these questions can be found in the series of meetings Studio We Don't Pour the City.
We recently learned the results of the 22nd edition of the KOŁO competition for the design of a building with a public toilet function in the Royal Lazienki Park in Warsaw [info]. The Grand Prix award went to a concept called "Linkort," designed by Dominika Bugajska and Marcin Trzaska. According to the jury, this project combined simplicity, elegance and attention to nature. All the awarded works, can still be seen until July 31 this year at the Open Air Gallery of the Royal Baths in Warsaw, on Agrykola Street (from the Herb Gate), at the height of the Hermitage.
Grand Prix of the 22nd edition of the Circle competition
© Dominika Bugajska, Marcin Trzaska
The results of previous editions of the competition include the Beach Pavilion in Warsaw, a toilet in Kazimierz Dolny, a toilet at Krakow's Mogilskie Roundabout or a toilet building in Plock overgrown with living greenery. The competition task is a response to the prevailing deficit of public toilets in cities. In Poland, there is one public toilet per 12,000 residents!
The topic of public toilets, or toilets in general, is very shameful, but at the same time very important. Let's not be ashamed to talk about it! What is very important is how such appendages are integrated into the space. Are they properly visible? A very important aspect is the right location, so that such a toilet does not need to be searched for a long time," noted Robert Konieczny, an architect from the KWK Promes studio.
The competition was accompanied by a series of talks, which Bogna Świątkowska, who runs the Studio We Don't Owe the City, continues. Invited guests representing various fields of life and art talk about the problems of urban spaces, looking at them from completely different perspectives. It turns out that experts in the fields of architecture, linguistics and nature conservation are united by caring for the common space and the interests of all its inhabitants, especially those who have no voice.
Three meetings have been held so far:
with Robert Konieczny, an architect from the KWK Promes studio:
Professor Jerzy Bralczyk:
and nature conservation activist Adam Wajrak:
