“Ekofuturium” in cooperation with Chartier Dalix

Together with the French studio Chartier Dalix, we took part in a competition to develop a conceptual design for the construction of the EKOFUTURIUM Sustainable Development Centre in Koszalin. The main idea of the project was to strengthen the blue-green infrastructure of Koszalin by extending the connections between the forest areas and the historic city centre. The location of the building on the plot was determined on the basis of a dendrological analysis – in the place of an unwooded area, preserving the existing trees as much as possible. Organising the main functions of the building around the courtyards was to allow direct contact with nature in all exhibition spaces.

The new architecture was to blend in with the surrounding greenery and close the view and communication axis with the neighbouring Cognitarium building. The development of the area around the Ecofuturium created an open space that was consistently embedded in the east-west pedestrian communication axis – from the centre, towards the woodlands located in the eastern part of the city.

We would like to thank the Chartier Dalix team for their collaboration and invite you to visit our collaborative project page.