Reconstruction of the Saxon Palace in Warsaw

The intention of the reconstruction of the Saxon and Brühl palaces, together with the complex of tenement houses at Królewska Street, is to restore the landscape of pre WWII Warsaw, which was alive in the social imagination and was brutally lost during the war. The functional division of the buildings has been thought out to easily separate three functions - the Senate, the Voivodeship Office and the cultural facility. The concept is based on the assumption that reconstruction is never just a rebuilding of the walls and aesthetics of the past, but rather a process of reshaping the identity of the city while emphasizing the influences of the present. We reproduce the external architectural shape of the entire building complex as faithfully as possible,along with wall thicknesses, tectonics of the façade, and traditional finishing materials. We expose authentic fragments of the Saxon Palace by incorporating the preserved relics into the façade and clearly separating them from the reconstructed walls and details, including the most impressive relic - the sphere of sacrum - the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

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