Location
The location of the proposed residential development in close proximity to the Praga II district creates a unique opportunity for the realization of a contemporary design that ts into the distinctive architectural language of socialist realism. The proposed urban composition places particular emphasis on integrating the buildings into the existing context of the area. Hallera Square serves as the spatial backbone for the Praga II district, and the axis of Władysław Skoczylas Street is a key element of the geometry of this part of the city. The design aims to complete the axis of Władysław Skoczylas Street with a unique fragment of a building featuring a passage that leads to a semi-public neighborhood square. The project engages in a dialogue with the neighboring architecture by using the same urban planning tools, interweaving public and semi-public spaces, openings, and passageways. Although the quarter is clearly separated from the urban space, it fosters an atmosphere of integration with the residents of neighboring developments. The neighborhood square, located within the development, serves as the focal point of community activity, while the kindergarten with a playground, located on the opposite side of the quarter, clearly shapes the identity of the designed “colony,” without excluding pedestrians or residents of adjacent buildings. A tree-lined avenue runs through the quarter, connecting Bertolt Brecht Street with Ratuszowa Street, passing by the public functions mentioned earlier along with their respective squares.

Spaces
The project presents a full range and diversity of spaces available to the residents:

1. Public spaces: A building with a service area along Borowskiego, Bertolta Brechta, Ratuszowa, and Jagielońska Streets, located on the axis of Skoczylas Street, featuring an arcade with two-story glass cafés and a space in the arcade.
2. Semi-public spaces: The neighborhood square with a resident activity center located in the northern part of the development, a children’s play area with a kindergarten in the southern part, and an avenue running through the site along the extension of Skoczylas Street, connecting Bertolt Brecht and Ratuszowa Streets with a passage through the neighborhood square and the children’s play area. Pedestrian connections between the streets are created through passageways and openings between buildings, such as at the existing building on Ratuszowa Street 7/9. The neighborhood square is linked to multi-level neighborhood terraces located above the passage at Borowskiego Street. These terraces are designed in a highly exposed location, ensuring western sunlight and offering a view towards the Vistula River and the panorama of Warsaw.
3. Semi-private spaces: Neighborhood terraces on the rooftops of buildings, accessible to residents of a specic stairwell.
4. Private spaces: Front gardens of the apartments, serving as a buffer zone between the semi-public spaces on the site and the apartments on the ground oor.

The above-mentioned spaces play a key role in the project, providing a space for the integration of residents across various age groups: elderly and adult people gathering in the community activity center, children in the kindergarten play area, and youth spending their free time in the cafés located in the building’s arcade passage.

Structure
Access to service zones and driveways to stairwells is limited to internal communication. Greenery plays an important role in shaping the space within the quarter. The maximum number of trees has been preserved on the investment plot. The outline of the underground oor has been designed to allow tree planting along the proposed avenue connecting Brechta and Ratuszowa Streets. The garden spaces of the ground-floor apartments are separated from the communication areas by greenery, and the neighborhood terraces on the rooftops of the buildings are also separated by greenery on the roofs.