Silesia University’s Radio and TV department is a completed project by BAAS for Uniwersytet Śląski designed in 2011 and completed in 2015. It is located in Katowice Poland in an urban setting. Its scale is medium with a surface of 5.390 sqm. Key material is brick. Concepts such as extension lattice courtyard and folded facade are explored.

The new Silesia University’s Radio and TV department will be located on a vacant plot, inserted in a consolidated area of Katowice. The plot, mainly empty, contains an abandoned building which the client initially planned to demolish.Our winning proposal plans to preserve this existing building, and add an extention to it while protecting the character of the old. The project also includes a lower height building occupying the interior block area which confers to the central courtyard the intervention’s prominence. Our design aims to be sensitive with the existing building aesthetics and takes advantage of its materiality and visual values by building on top of it and abstract volume made out of a brick latticework, which follows the neighbour’s section.The new building fills up the whole plot and at the same time hollows a central courtyard, becoming this, the key element for all the social activities taking place around the studios and lecture rooms at the new university department.

0497-JBA.GR5-KTW.PL-2011.15 — Posted in 2013 — Explore more projects on education and university — Climate: continental and temperate — Coordinates: 50.258739, 19.029967 — Collaborator: Daniel Guerra, Mireia Monràs, Raül Avilla, Joan Ramon Pastor, Cristina Luis, Mariona Guàrdia, Rafael Berengena, Xavier Gracia, Enric Navarro, Gonzalo Heredia — Views: 4.051