Martyrdom of Polish Villages in Michniów memorial mausoleum nears completion
01/12/2015.
[VIDEO] from Muzeum Wsi Kieleckiej [Michniów] Poland
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
Mirosław Nizio and his studio Nizio Design International envisage the building as a traditional hut that incrementally deteriorates and crumbles into dust – symbolising the burning of the village.
Miroslaw Nizio's studio won the competition for the design of the Mausoleum building in 2009. Nizio Design International is the general designer of the Mausoleum responsible for its site development and architectural and interior designs. Also, the studio was tasked to develop the design both in its conceptual and construction phases, as well as to supervise the works from start to finish.
The Mausoleum of the Martyrdom of Polish Villages was commissioned by the Kielce Region Countryside Museum with a view to commemorating the victims of the repressions suffered by Polish rural communities during the German occupation. Michniów – pacified on 12 July, 1943 – today is a symbol of all village pacifications that took place during World War II. The site on which the Mausoleum is being built used to be a symbolic place of remembrance dedicated to those tragic incidents: originally, a collective grave of the victims was erected (in 1945), followed by the "Pieta of Michniów” sculpture and National Remembrance House.
"The building has a characteristic segmented structure," said a statement from Nizio's studio. "Its tissue is cut across by cracks that divide the architectural form into closed and open parts."
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Mirosław Nizio. After working as a designer in New York for over a decade, Mirosław Nizio founded his own bureau in Warsaw. Since 2002 he has proven with his every project that one may create museum expositions in many different ways.
The designer, born in Biłgoraj, a town in south-eastern Poland, studied sculpture and architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He later moved to New York, where he continued his education at the Fashion Institute of Technology. In 1989, he opened his own bureau which dealt with design (amongst others, with interior, furniture and object design). The designer was active on the American market for 13 years and in that time he collaborated with firms such as Merrill Lynch, BMW, Mercedes Benz and Oskar de la Renta.
In 2002 he moved to Poland. In an historic tenement house in Inżynierska street in the Warsaw district of Praga, he opened not only a design bureau but also a foundation dealing with the animation of the cultural life of this neglected borough and a gallery which exhibits architectural drawings, photographs and sculptures (for instance, Nizio's sculptural works in 2004).