Towarowa 22
The project aims to shape a contemporary urban district where compact development is interwoven with a resilient and richly layered landscape. Our approach focuses on creating a continuous, multifunctional green infrastructure informed by the site’s climate, atmosphere, and historical character.
The masterplan organizes the surroundings of the House of the Word into eight balanced urban quarters. At the core, two central quarters are reserved entirely for a public park, forming an accessible green anchor for the district. The remaining six quarters function as independent development phases – architecturally diverse, programmatically varied, and designed to operate as self-sufficient pieces of the wider urban system.
Kamila Lejman-Kudła, Paulina Kalska, Sonja Marczewski, Emilia Piłat, Marta Przygoda, Oliwia Rybczyńska, Jadwiga Ryczek, Lucyna Rydel, Marta Tomasiak
JEMS (lead architect)
6 ha
Echo Investment, AFI, Archicom
since 2021
Igor Brożyna
The landscape system embraces inner courtyards, planted roof terraces, and vegetated building façades, integrating greenery at multiple levels and ensuring that open spaces, architecture, and ecology operate as one.
A central element of the proposal is the upcycling of the former printing hall into a multi-level public park – an accessible, climate-adaptive structure that becomes the social and ecological heart of the district, complemented by the revitalized House of the Word.
The revitalized Pavilion of the Polish Printing House, the Park Kazimierza, and Park Hall – created on the foundations of the restored historic printing hall joists – together form a distinctive landscape of urban identity. Greenery permeates the architecture, filling courtyards and public squares. It is not decoration, but a binding force: nature that connects the material with the symbolic.
green blocks introduce public space into an otherwise highly dense urban environment
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