COCH — Centre of Refrigeration Industry
Research and industrial structure conceived as a complex of three buildings with a courtyard. Front building as an administration and design office part has four storeys, with individually designed interiors. Apart from the main building there is an interestingly solved, horizontal production plant with the rhythm of windows and shed roofs. There is a specific harmony of use of Modernist language as well as of using shaping i.e. of tectonics and detail in a considerate and economic manner. The Lea Street frontage is set apart here by means of its arcade and characteristic, sculpted external mosaic. It is both understated and spatially expressive as its dynamic articulation, save for the transversal and vertical shaping, is strengthened by concave and convex forms and cool colour scheme with the tones from white to ultramarine. In terms of external mosaics such a tectonics is to be found nowhere else in Krakow.