We?ve probably all seen a video or two of some adrenaline junkies base-jumping off the tops of skyscrapers and other monuments (and if not, here?s one to start you off). Part of the allure of such spectacles is the fact that these landmarks were never intended to be sites for such high-flying stunts; one can easily imagine the thrill of seeing monumental icons like the Burj Khalifa or Christ the Redeemer flash before your eyes as you race towards the ground at however many miles per hour at which these things occur.
The same could be said about these abandoned cement silos on the outskirts of Warsaw, which were certainly not originally built for extreme sports, but could function perfectly as a skydiving and scuba diving recreation center if Moko Architects have anything to say about it. What?s more, the Polish firm wants to retrofit the structures with a facade of shipping containers. Holy adaptive reuse, batman! Click through to see more.
?The remains of the factories, warehouses, and silos may be attractive for investors interested in their modernization into lofts, offices, studios or erecting new buildings which will interline into the surrounding landscape,? explains a project description for Moko Architects? BS25 project, touching upon the more common concepts for renovating abandoned industrial sites such as the ones in the periphery of Warsaw. But what Moko Architects noticed is that ?[t]his area is also becoming a popular place for amateurs of extreme sports, artists or people who like exploring abandoned buildings.?
Responding to this unanticipated demographic, the architects proposed a plan for a Diving and Indoor Skydiving Center, which takes two defunct cement silos in the undeveloped ?era? district and connects them with an umbrella structure made of modular shipping containers. The result is a ten-story building that cleverly utilizes the immense, cylindrical forms of Warsaw?s abandoned silos by transforming them into a sky-diving training facility and a parallel a scuba diving well. The structure would include a caf?, an exhibition space, changing rooms, and even a hostel to encourage visitors to make the trip and stay a few days to savor this unusual recreational ? and architectural ? experience.
Images courtesy the architects
[h/t Curbed]
Source: http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/86978/skydiving-silos/
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