Anna Agata Kantarek

The paper presents a diploma project of the recreational area of Nowy Sącz, situated at the confluence of the Dunajec and Nawojowska Kamienica rivers with the proposal of transforming the ground of the Koral Ice Cream Factory into a landscape-shaped pavilion of the Regional Promotion Center. The project was made by Iwona Niemiec as a master’s degree at the Faculty of Architecture of the Cracow University of Technology, under the direction of Anna Agata Kantarek and defended in the year 2015.

How do we understand the life of the city, its time and its space? What requirements do we impose on the space we live in? What does the future mean to us? Today, answers to these questions are marked with a reflection upon the dynamic and scope of changes which affect us and our cities. What is and should remain the same; what changes or should change? Instead of presenting answers and visions, we ought to ask a number of questions which will define probable directions for the evolution of the form of the city. Is Kazimierz Wejchert’s spatial city – a kind of spatial, pedestrian continuum – the answer?

The paper presents the particular form of an urban block, divided into plots and built up with detached buildings. This form is derived from the single-family housing and has been adapted for multifamily housing purpose.

The paper presents the campus of the Lausanne Technical University (EPFL) in Ecublens and analyzes its form as an example of development of a superblock. History of EPFL goes back to 1853 and the school received independence in 1968. The decision to build a new campus out of city center, in Ecublens-Dorigny was made in the 60’s. Described superblock includes both University and EPFL, carrying out different ways of building and urban composition. This paper writes about the history of the spatial development of EPFL superblock presenting it in the perspective of an internal, logic extension of function and form, the relationship at the interface boundary line of a superblock, external relations with neighboring areas and the development of relations with the city. This relationships are formed at the basis of the logic of the neighborhood and plans and in scale of spatial planning of the whole agglomeration of Lausanne (Lausanne-Morges agglomeration Plan – PALM from 2007).