Courtyard City Hall by Atelier Starzak Strebicki

Atelier Starzak Strebicki has recently completed Courtyard City Hall, a public space in Poznań, Poland.

From the architect: Green oasis, street café, community centre, public square. These are the new incarnations of the Courtyard City Hall which was transformed from a car park into a meeting place for residents. The Courtyard located in the Old Town received a second life: it became an open, multifunctional public space.

The square has been furnished with a family of objects referring to different needs of groups of users. With a round big bench around the existing flower-bed and mobile seats that can be formed into amphitheatrical arrangement together with a podium. These elements may be used for seating, lying or cascade sitting referring to the scheme of auditorium in theatre.

All objects were put amongst flora, trees planted in flowerpots and high grass that give intimacy and cosiness to the urban interior.

Architect: Atelier Starzak Strebicki
Project: City Hall Courtyard
Team: Jola Starzak, Dawid Strębicki, Bartosz Stanik, Maciej Polakowski, Luis Gómez Soriano, Agnieszka Kotschy
Location: Poznań, Poland
Program: Urban furniture for courtyard City Hall (20 pots with trees and plants, 14 mobile benches, round bench surrounding flower bed)
Surface: 2.300 m2
Photography: Mateusz Bieniaszczyk, Atelier Starzak Strebicki