WARSAW SOCIAL DISTRICT

Zuzanna Zofia Jarzyńska

A new urban neighborhood designed around spatially and economically diverse residential area and complementary workspaces and social services.

Warsaw, Poland; (2018-2019); for the Department of Architecture and Spatial Planning of the Capital City of Warsaw, in collab. with BBGK Architects

Abstract

A new sustainable, equitable and replicable housing model was designed to offer a wide range of different types of subsidized and affordable housing units in a mixed-use, 41-acre neighborhood. Warsaw Social District is located in Ulrychów, on the site of a former building prefab factory that produced many of Warsaw housing projects in the 70s. Metaphorically, the history of this location will be reenacted – what once was a mass housing manufactory, will once again provide housing for all.

A total 1,500 housing units, 40mln sf working spaces, 16mln sf social services and schools, including a primary school, kindergarten and a nursery, are planned. The first phase commissioned by Department of Architecture and Spatial Planning was to create qualitative and quantitative guidelines for the future masterplan project. A set of social, sustainability and architectural standards were defined, in order to facilitate the development of one of the many discussed economic scenarios of the investment's realization.