The Knowledge Center, Boleslawiec, Poland
Education both inside and out: The Knowledge Center of the public library in Boleslawiec welcomes visitors with pictures of famous Poles on its façade. The Miejska Library of the Polish city of Boleslawiec was extended with a Knowledge Center in 2018. The new building is a meeting place for the public, be it children or senior citizens, and features numerous learning and educational offers.
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ProjectCentrum Wiedzy w Boleslawcu, Miejska Library
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LocationBoleslawiec, Poland
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Architect
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PhotosKrzysztof Karch
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Photo-Engraved Portraits on the Concrete Façade
The building’s purpose is already apparent from the outside: The concrete façade is decorated with photos of famous Poles. Images of Pope John Paul II and the scientist Marie Curie were applied to the façade using photo engraving formliners from the RECKLI Visuals series. The photos were converted into a file with 256 shades of gray on a computer. Following that, a CNC milling machine milled the pattern into a positive model on which the formliner was then cast.
For the façade in Boleslawiec, 11 moulds measuring 3100 x 990 mm were made, to decorate a total of 31.5 m² of concrete surface. The concrete is class 4 exposed concrete.
The architects at the Polish firm Sankon chose glass-fibre-reinforced concrete for the façade. The GFRC elements were produced at the precast plant, where the concrete panels were cast using formliners that transferred the photographic design onto the surface. Installed as a curtain wall, the panels are protected against graffiti and other forms of soiling with RECKLI Graffix Basic.
