Leisure Space on the Vistula Riverside / Karol Zurawski

Textual content description offered by the architects. The mission was rigorously built-in into the native Vistula pure context and tailored to the very particular nature of the location, which is a floodplain. The entire canopies might be submerged. For that reason, the form of the canopies was made comfortable and streamlined, in order that when the river is flooded they provide as little resistance as doable to the pressure of the flowing river.

The canopies have been designed utilizing a contemporary ecological different to concrete – Cross concrete-laminated timber. Plates of the canopies lengthen far past the wood uprights to guard them and the picnic tables and benches beneath them from driving rain.

The development of the canopies is essentially cantilevered – the forces are distributed centrally across the uprights, therefore the round form of the cover and the division of the board into layers: the additional away from the uprights, the much less forces act within the ceiling and thus the thickness of the board may be lowered.

Having ecology in thoughts no concrete was used for foundations. Wood piles have been hammered into the bottom as within the development of a pier or breakwater. They have been positioned at a substantial depth of as much as 6 meters in order that they’d be firmly embedded within the floor and supply ample resistance to the buoyancy pressure of the canopies in the event that they have been to go underwater.