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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 urbansurroundings: 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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CREDITS:
Text and images: Studio Nicoletti Associati

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