LS Hochbunker renovation for Museum of Contemporary Arts is focused on preserving the unique structure of the 1942 nazi antiaircraft shelter by Richard Konwiarz. The claustrophobic atmosphere of the rounded corridor-like spaces is reduced by opening the rows of doors which were originally bricked up. Additional openings are made in exhibition spaces were part of the floor is removed. The roof is reserved for café in cylindrical glassed pavilion around the existing core.

Authors: VROA CH+ (Agnieszka Chrzanowska, Marta Mnich, Lukasz Wojciechowski, Wojtek Chrzanowski, Grzegorz Kaczmarowski, Agata Kurto, Magda Szwajcowska, Karolina Wrzosowska)

The Terrace Restaurant by Max Berg is the integral part of the Pergola designed by Hans Poelzig. The whole complex – together with monumental Centennial Hall – was built in 1913 as a part of Fairgrounds in Wroclaw. The restaurant was burnt at the end of WWII, and only the structure survived. The bulidng was remodeled for the Exhibition of Retaken Grounds – a communist propaganda fair, when it became the office and magazine facility. In 2009, after the competition judged by international jury, the new investment started in order to reintroduce the restaurant by the Pergola. The new program was added to create the biggest convention center in the region of Lower Silesia. The new volumes extending symmetrically to the East and West are the half of the size allowed in the competition brief. It was to preserve the unique views towards the Hall and neighboring Four Copulas Pavilion by Poelzig. The interior is open to the surroundings – the whole northern wall is glassed for breathtaking perspective to the pond. The new elements of spatial organization are hued in Pergola’s autumn ivy leaves’ color.

Authors: VROA CH+ (Agnieszka Chrzanowska, Marta Mnich, Lukasz Wojciechowski Wojtek Chrzanowski, Co-authors: Andrzej Chrzanowski, Julek Erdman, Grzegorz Kaczmarowski, Danuta Katarasinska, Agata Kurto, Natalia Rowinska, Sebastian Stanislawski)

The stripes defining floors run between two existing buildings joining them in the loop. The open space unique quality is achieved with low 1,1m height windows – the solution is about to protect the interior from south light and not close views to the surrounding landscape. The glass stripes continue as balustrades for open-air terraces on each floor.

Authors: VROA (Marta Mnich, Julie Milovanovic, Lukasz Wojciechowski)

The project for series of kiosks for lottery is a simple improvement of existing situation. It is divided into closed and public part. The latter - which is not heated – has a domestic quality which may inspire meetings. In spite of competition challenge for outstanding form, the project is more about the new way of operating for this kiosk in kiosk.

Authors: VROA (Marta Mnich, Magda Szwajcowska, Julie Milovanovic, Lukasz Wojciechowski)

Operational elements of the house are 3 (2+1) cubes and open stairs. There is open space between them and it can be divided with moving acoustic walls. The zones of the first floor are marked by the void and the skylight. The rhythm of the 90cm stripes keeps human scale and refers to the measures in primitive building. Some of the interior elements are expanded into the garden (table, windowsill, floor, flowers). Stripes defining the walls refer more to the neighboring field than schematic nearby houses.

Authors: VROA (Marta Mnich, Magda Szwajcowska, Lukasz Wojciechowski Scale model: Marta Bazan, Slawka Chocholska)

The idea of the project is to conceptually stratify the terrain in order to create the topography allowing multiple and informal uses. All the functional elements like benches, garbage cans and lighting fit within the loop, not being the individual elements. The loop allows Sunday bicyclers to turn back and continue along the river promenade.

Authors: VROA (Marta Mnich, Lukasz Wojciechowski) + NArchitekTURA (Bartosz Haduch) Scale model: Karolina Wrzosowska

The goal of the project is preserving and emphasizing the unique quality of the Nowy Targ Square as a Modernist architecture monument. The complex was developed between 1950. and 60. as an architectural experiment – supermodern urban plan within the borders of the medieval city of Wroclaw. The square modular grid integrated with the buildings becomes a basis for new uses and materials continuing the Modernist contrasts and purity of surfaces.

Authors: VROA (Marta Mnich, Marta Bazan, Slawomira Chocholska, Michal Romanski, Magadalena Szwajcowska, Justyna Turowska, Lukasz Wojciechowski, Karolina Wrzosowska)

The project unfolds the operational idea of the street (program) and its topography (sloping terrain), extending the sidwalk into the theater's foyer. Only partialy the architecture depends on artifitial (formal) urban regulations like rythm, plinth or facade. The context is understood as parametrer points: from the slope (1-2) to the level of existing auditorium (3), continuing the neighboring plinth (4-5) and the line of the tower over the scene (6-7).

Authors: VROA (Marta Mnich, Magdalena Szwajcowska, Lukasz Wojciechowski)