Campus Development And Downtown Regeneration – Perspectives For Katowice

The scope of the paper is to present the issues concerning the revitalization of an area situated in the centre of Katowice, where an academic quarter of the University of Silesia is emerging. Although this problem has been subject of numerous research works, workshops and competitions, the city of Katowice, despite many investments, has not managed to fully implement the revitalization of this area. Research activities indicated the deficiency in the integration of student functions. The surface of the area is about 10 hectares, located at the quarter comprising Warszawska, Bankowa and Dudy-Gracza Streets and the Rawa river boulevards. In May 2014 the Municipality of Katowice and University of Silesia announced the workshops on concepts of integrating an urban student centre, with the participation of the team from the Faculty of Architecture, Silesian University of Technology. The workshops were focused on analysing the situation of the program and design elaboration for the area in question. The proposed solutions were targeted at creating a student centre integrated with other public sites of Katowice, improving the attractiveness of the Rawa riverside, and providing a competitive advantage for the city of Katowice over other university cities in Poland.