The Integrated Communication Center for the Lublin Functional Area is a communication investment with sustainable architecture, aimed at the development of the industrial area.

The communication center, which will be built in Lublin, is supposed to enliven the district intended for revitalization and become a meeting place where people will be able to spend time together in an attractive environment with green areas.

The former bus station was an example of buildings from the 70s of the twentieth century with a steel skeletal post-and-beam structure with masonry walls, neglected in terms of architecture, it served as a supplementary bus station to the Main Railway Station located at Aleja Tysiąclecia in Podzamcze.

The new station is to be a friendly space for residents and the environment. To serve this purpose, the roof garden, where we will be able to walk, and the wall of one of the cubicles will create a green zone connecting the station with the People’s Park. An anti-smog cube will be placed around the building, and the area will be planted with plant species that are particularly conducive to the production of oxygen. In addition to stops for city and regional buses, the project also provides an underground parking, taxi ranks, stands for bicycles and chargers for electric vehicles. From a chaotic car park, Plac Dworcowy will become a decorative promenade, visually and functionally connected to the railway station.

The building of the Integrated Communication Center station, with the cohesion of the previous function, was given a modernist form and, as a result of this contrasting distinction, does not compete with the facades of historical buildings and urban development. Designed in a consciously different style from the existing buildings of the railway station PKP with well-preserved protected historical features. The design uses natural colors and materials, e.g. wood, stone, concrete, stainless steel. The height of the building is adapted to the surrounding buildings, and the designed and existing internal communication system takes into account the general location context.

The shape of the station will be divided into two cubicles surrounded by a glass conservatory, and all rooms will be separated from the main hall. The “building within a building” concept will significantly reduce maintenance costs and reduce noise.

The structure of bus platform shelters in a complementary way refers to the roofing of the station building, e.g. through socket columns (in which the risers of the rainwater drainage system will be hidden). Photovoltaic cells have been embedded in the glass panels forming the roof covering of the sheds, which have a double function – shading against the sun’s rays and providing energy to the station service.

Location: Lublin
Year: 2016
Area of the station building: 1,420 m2
Total land area: 90,000 m2
Status: Contest
Client: Municipality of Lublin

Awards/Distinctions: World Building of the Year, WAF (shortlist 2019)