Malgorzata Szablowska
studio@goshastudio.com

Centennial Hall of post communist and post Nazi, Polish city of Wroclaw, now almost a hundred years old, is still the biggest concrete dome in Europe. How to allow the building to speak, how to read and record its invisible but ever present stories, has been set as the project’s main design question.

The outcome reaffirms the dome’s function as the place where large public events take place, but in doing so, it proposes a new function for Centennial Hall as well. Centennial Hall becomes the place where important events are recorded and communicated through a series of spatial ‘date clocks’ embedded in the site’s various functions.