With two program themes: culinary arts and manual crafts, Bzionków becomes a place where these two groups are brought together through shared program and living spaces. The site is currently populated by eight buildings heavily damaged and affected by time. This presents an opportunity for meaningful interventions. The existing inevitability and uncertainty of weathering present on these buildings, is viewed as a continuation of the building process (peeling, cracking, failing, sagging), rather than as a force antagonistic to it. Architecture is the result of selective repair of physical damage that exalts phenomenological moments.

The co-existence youth/elderly occupation of new/weathered architecture tells the story of passage of time. The old continues to age, the new becomes old, a new generation is born.

Location
Dobrodzień, Poland

Collaborators
House Operations (Andrés Romero Pompa, Paola Cuevas Báez, José Ibarra)

Supporters
Ann Michel and Phil Wilde