A view to the future

‘Eurobuild CEE’: What inspired you while designing the Essence? Jakub pudo, BOMP: At the very beginning the main idea for the project was the ‘The Secret Garden’. The size of the building and the method of indoor space organisation stemmed from the centrifugal reception of the building i.e. we tried to visualise how big the building would have to be to be able to spend a few days there and say march with a rucksack and a tent across the different landscape layers, stopping on each of them and actually cutting yourself off from the reality outside. We came up with various scenarios: how a user could behave, what they could do in such areas, what impressions they might have, and how having all these levels one above the other and combining them in a way that allows them to more or less merge into each other will affect the experience. Could such a skyscraper-park ever possibly exist anywhere? Such a project,