"Crystal Brick" statuette for the University of Lodz
The competition is organised by Polskie Towarzystwo Mieszkaniowe Lublin and "Dziennik Wschodni". It awards the best construction investments on both sides of the European Union's eastern border.
The main goal of the competition is to stir the economic and civil activities of East Europe regions by promoting and documenting of the regional infrastructure, building and architecture development. This will contribute to buildings’ quality and aesthetics improvement as well as restoring the previous beauty in order to preserve the Europe’s cultural heritage
– we can read on the website of the "DOM 2023" organiser.
Each edition of the competition focuses on the countries and regions’ development on both sides of the eastern borders of the EU. The international and interregional formula reflects the nature and idea of the European Community and is to cover voivodeships, oblasts and regions –from Scandinavia to the Balkans.
Winner of the "Crystal Brick 2023" competition – the modern building of the University of Lodz Faculty of Educational Sciences
The new five-story building of the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Scheiblerów 2 Avenue is oblong and has a glass facade and rounded gables. It’s located parallel to The Scheibler family Avenue at the intersection with Narutowicza Street. The so-called ‘sun breakers’ were installed on the entire façade to protect against excess sun. Some of them are illuminated after dark with LED strips with variable colours. A glass part of the new building connects it with the previously existing Wacław Szubert Assembly Hall, which can accommodate 500 people.
The building (over 6,000 square metres of usable area) hosts laboratories, teaching, monographic, training and conference rooms, as well as sanitary and social rooms (e.g. public kitchens on each floor) for over 700 students of all five years of Psychology and Pedagogy. There are also two large lecture halls with a capacity of 130 people each. The spaciousness and lightness of the interior of the new building of the Faculty of Educational Sciences is enhanced by a large glass hall with elevator shafts, reaching to the upper floors of the building, with semi-open corridors on individual floors, giving the impression of balconies.
Source: Polskie Towarzystwo Mieszkaniowe Lublin; University of Lodz
Edit: Communications and PR Centre, University of Lodz