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Saltworks Pavilion

A shelter, not a building: the archaeology is the exhibit and everything above it is demountable.

Projects/Saltworks Pavilion

Discipline
Architecture
Sector
Commercial
Type
Cultural
Location
Gdańsk
Year
2026
Status
On site
Area
680 m²
Client
Pomeranian Heritage

The project

The excavated floor cannot be built on, loaded, or permanently enclosed. Everything above it therefore lands on eight points outside the archaeological boundary and spans across, a glulam grid carrying a standing-seam roof and nothing else.

There are no walls. Weather protection is the roof overhang plus a perimeter of retractable fabric that is drawn only in winter, which the heritage body preferred to any glazed option.

Every connection is bolted. If the assessment changes in twenty years, the pavilion comes apart in the order it went together.

Before and after

What was here, and what is here now.

Saltworks Pavilion after completion
Saltworks Pavilion before works
BeforeAfter
BeforeThe open excavation with archaeologists and the project architect recording the salt house floor.AfterThe glulam grid landed clear of the dig, roof complete, fabric drawn back.

Parts of the building

Saltworks Pavilion, Eight landings

Eight landings

Every load point outside the archaeological boundary.

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