Students’ Town
Complex of the Students’ Town (Miasteczko Studenckie) received many awards. Among them were the Award of the Minister of Building and the Award of the City of Krakow for the high-rise building i.e. the ‘Olimp’ Hall of Residence in the year 1972, as well as the Award of the Minister of Building in 1971 and the Vice-mister of the City of Krakow award in 1972 for the design of the commercial pavilion. The second stage of the enterprise was realised according to the original design. The whole is considered to be one of the most interesting urbanistic concepts not only in Krakow. Miasteczko Studenckie is actually an urbanistic and architectural complex, a large housing estate with the full programme of facilities. The estate was meant for students of eight academic schools in Krakow. The main compositional principle was the idea of an ‘agora’ integrating the whole layout, and floating under low, elongated buildings, in the form of broad passages. The passages were connecting space, terrain and verdure. Highrise building, them-selves ascetic in form, with characteristic tectonics of escape staircases, provide compositional accents.