Lucjan Rydel nr 93 Primary School
The school was conceived as a set of strongly accentuated blocks — pavilions among the old trees. In order to preserve the open view from Rydla Street on the Kościuszko Mound the building was recessed from the front of the plot. The internal space which is publicly accessible, floats freely and connects the entire layout. The middle pavilion is meant for various kinds of activity and recreation. In the northern part there are classroom units with strongly accentuated entrances. The elevation of this part is the most characteristic feature of the building. It is discerned by a unique, expressive sculptural facade whose horizontality is marked by bands of windows between the articulated trapezoidal cornices. Each floor of that elevation was divided into three bands of windows which had the effect of ‘eliminating’ both scale and functional division into floors and at the same time allowed for creating the homogenous, sculpted facade which is a picture of its own kind. It has divisions and colourful squares between the windows. Given its architectural expression, it is one of the more beautiful elevations that were ever made in Krakow.