Chwiałka City Pool
The Chwiałka swimming pool is an extraordinary building constructed in the 1960s. Not much has remained from the his A group of students with the help of tutors, the Slovakian architects Ondrej Marko and Juraj Hariš from the 2021 architekti office, decided to draw attention of the visitors to the historic stands and bring back its former glory. In their design, the students used the effects of optical illusion, finishing part of the stands with new wooden seating in such a way as to form an enormous logo of Poznań – a star, when looked from a specific point near the pool. This place was marked with wooden paving elements, placed in between the existing elements of the surface. The designers themselves admitted that the task was difficult since most of the measuring and cutting was done directly on location by trail-and-error. Nevertheless, the desired outcome was achieved and now in the hot days the stands is a favourite relaxation spot for the residents visiting the bathing site.
