OUR WAY TO BUILDING A GREENER EUROPEAN TOWN MAQUETTE

First of all, we decided to have a closer look at the organization of Legnica.

Our city has 100,000 inhabitants. It is located on the plain and on the River Kaczawa.

GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION OF LEGNICA

BUILDINGS TYPICAL FOR LEGNICA

We may assume that the organization of our city looks similar to the perfect green city model. The buildings we can find in the city centre are:

Office and hotel buildings

Buildings of culture ( 1 museum, 2 art galleries, 1 theatre, 2 cinemas, etc)

Buildings of worship (churches)

Administrative buildings (offices)

Service buildings (shops and shopping centers)

- Industrial buildings (factories, workshops, warehouses) can be found in the outskirts of the city

INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS

Legnica’s city park, which was founded in

the 18th century, takes up the area of

58 hectares

CITY PARK

It is also situated in the city centre, hence often called the green heart of the city

Football stadium can be found in the middle of the

park

CITY PARK/ FOOTBALL STADIUM

HOSPITAL

Legnica’s hospital is situated in the suburbian area, as well.

The access to it is easy, however,

thanks to the ringroad

DWELLINGS

Blocks of flats built in 1970-1980s are the most typical dwellings of Legnica. They can be found in most districts of the city, including

the city centre. They are often set with old German tenement houses.

OTHER DWELLINGS

•More wealthy inhabitants of the city usually live in detached houses situated in the suburbs of the city, where it is more peaceful and quiet.

ALLOTMENTS

•People who live in blocks of flats sometimes buy a piece of land from the city and grow some fruit and vegetables there.•These pieces of land, called allotments, are very popular in Poland

SOLAR PANELS

Solar panels are being installed on more and more buildings

More and more rubbish is being

separated

WASTE SORTING

We decided that our GET maquette

could use some of the ideas of Legnica's organization,

but we would design it on the plan of a smaller town

HOW WE STARTED

Mrs Katarzyna Doszczak-Fuławka,

our arts teacher, was in charge

HOW WE STARTED

We didn't really know how to start, but after a lot of

theoretical preparation and having a closer look at

the draft of the maquette,

we finally started

A MAP OF AN EXISTING TOWN

We used an enlarged plan of an existing town,

put it on a styrofoam and drew our town.

FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPEST…

Equipped with sharp knives

and scissors, we started

cutting the plan of the city and

put some blotting paper on the

surface to imitate green areas

HARD, MUNDANE WORK

The next step was the most demanding, as it took ages to cut

small pieces of buildings out of a floristic foam and adjust them to

the maquette

EVEN MORE MUNDANE WORK AND STRESS

Some of us

apparently

couldn’t stand

the tension

ROADS

Then, we started drawing roads in our city

After painting the maquette with some parget and colouring it in green,

our work was done

WHAT'S IN THERE- dwellings

lOur GET consists of the following:

l blocks of flats lterraced and detached houses

WHAT'S IN THERE- transport

lrailway station,

lbus station

lrailway,

lroads,

lcycle lanes

WHAT'S IN THERE- administrative buildings

located in the centre-

town hall and offices

WHAT'S IN THERE- buildings of culture and worship

a castle,

an eco-education centre,

museums,

cinemas

churches

WHAT'S IN THERE- service buildings

a hospital,

schools,

a shopping centre,

local shops,

a post office etc.

WHAT'S IN THERE-

buildings and places of sports and entertainment

a sports centre,

a football stadium,

a tropical island,

allotments

WHAT'S IN THERE- ecological buildings

wind turbines

WHAT'S IN THERE- ecological buildings

noise barriers

WHAT'S IN THERE- ecological buildings

solar panels

on the buildings

and solar fields

WHAT'S IN THERE- ecological buildings

hydro power station

recycling centremunicipal sewage service

WHAT'S IN THERE- ecological buildings

AND THE FINAL RESULT IS...