Placed along Aleja Adama Mickiwicza, across the National Museum and towards the inner end of the open urban space of the meadows of Cracow, the project fuses in one building complex a series of fundamental architectural and urban themes of the city of Cracow: the covered market and the intimate courtyard with the topic of the underground, the vertical layering of different realities with the horizontal succession of contrasting architectural typologies.

The interpretation and superposition of these different urban images, together with a regime of programmatic complexity, which combines activities dedicated to leisure, sport, wellbeing, commerce and tourism, produces a heterogenous building, centred around two inner courtyards, which connects to its surroundings in a pragmatic way. It consists of the main sunken inner courtyard with its two ramps, an underground garage as well as a sunken supermarket. At street level the invention of a texture like grid of small narrow spaces connects the exterior with the interior of the building from all directions and assures the possible coexistence of different activities in the space of a few steps. Underground and ground level and the roof terrace above the building are connected through a texture of small voids, which let the sunlight enter the different layer during the day and the artificial light shine out during the night. Inside the plot, around a second, more intimate courtyard develops a series of small apartments at various levels. This part of the building is complemented by a small public bath, which developed in the interior of the lot underneath the exterior open space. The aim is to provide a variety of possible forms of encounter and exchange, as well as foresee the coexistence of different scenarios of urban life inside a building, with other words the image of the city in a house.