Westerplatte Museum in Gdańsk

The concept of the Open-Air Museum is based on showing the layers of Westerplatte's history: the times of the seaside resort, the Military Transit Depot, elements related to the defense of 1939 and the transformations of the 1960s. The concept of the Open-Air Museum complements the history of the place with another story emerging from the present - the museum pavilion, whose task is to protect and make the fragile remains of the past available to the wider public. The external emanation of the museum building is a sculptural, concrete form - a gesture - referring with its severity to the character of the place. From a distance it appears as an inaccessible monolith, but from close up it shows a variety of textures of concrete, and the differences of planes - faults, overhangs of the outer walls allow you to look inside it. These treatments make it possible to preserve the legible expression of form from a distance as an element flanking the square, the counterpoint of the Monument, but also of the object - from close - hiding further elements of the story of Westerplatte.

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