Kuryłowicz & Associates

The municipal natural landscape park was organized around the water reservoir that, apart from its recreational and landscape function, functions as a water storage reservoir. The park is surrounded by residential buildings of diverse form and various character. From the north side, it is a semi-circular apartment building designed on the plan of a gentle arch. Its soft, cut with clearances, form enabled to define the green yard which constitutes an extension of the park and connects the space of the residential development with the historic Fort Mokotów Embankment in its north part. The yard with its form invites the Embankment’s greenery inside the residential development, and the building naturally interacts with the existing flora. Four-storey detached city villas were located along the east bank of the reservoir, which owing to their scattered and irregular spatial arrangement merge into the space of the park enabling to introduce its greenery deeper into the other residential quarters. At the west boundary of the park higher buildings, which more distinctly define its boundaries and also leave clearances and visual connections with other areas, were designed. The greenery and water in the park, green courtyards at the buildings, the greenery of the streets and yard thus make up a continuous arrangement of green spaces ensuring contact with the open area to all buildings of the complex and placing itself into a wider context of the arrangements of greenery in that part of the city.

In the land development plan and green area design of Marina Mokotów Residential Development particular attention was paid to minor forms of development and architectural detail. Individual buildings were given an individual character and the public spaces were organized in such a manner so that their diverse use was possible. The elements relating to the water reservoir were given special importance: bridges, footbridges, dykes, weirs.

The Study was responsible for designing the Master Plan and over the half of individual quarters of the development.