SILESIAN MUSEUM

COMPETITION DESIGN

The idea of a competition work arises from the existing tension between the forces of nature expressed by the soil: rock and coal along with the mine, and art that exists here only in an abstract sense, in the sky, in the silhouette of the city in the horizon, with all its heritage and aspirations. It is the blackness that became the symbol of nature: the blackness of coal and volcanic rock, the blackness of ground and the space, the blackness of stone walls emerging from the ground and the darkness of the underground. Blackness is porous and edgy, formed in terraces: covered by stone or the grass, flooded with water. Art is expressed through whiteness. Whiteness is pure and smooth. A white building constitutes a package. The space enclosed in it is a house, a shelter, an art laboratory. Profanum is hidden under ground: garages, warehouses and other auxiliary and technical rooms. The building of the museum, clean and regular in its form, is suspended in the space. It floats above the black ground. In contrast to nature - it symbolises art, it is a perfect creation of mankind. It is encapsulated by space in the daytime, it is engulfed by light at night.