Complex of multifamily military housing

Three multifamily houses for the military at 1, 3 and 5 Kaczewska Street, with a characteristic façade and residential layout, built in the second half of the 1930s for the officers of the Polish Navy. The design of the buildings was probably made by the architect Wanda Boerner-Brzechffa (née Boerner, primo voto Przewłocka), graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology, author of the "twin" implementation in the area of Hel (according to the research of the architect Grzegorz Mika).

Description of the buildings

Almost armoured structure of buildings, private shelters and underground connection with the shelters located on the other side of Zwycięstwa Avenue, combined with typically modernist elements, such as 'thermometer-like' windows, rounded entrances and window niches, create one of the most original and mysterious designs of Gdynia's modernism. Noteworthy is also the material of the walls and the method of bricklaying itself. The buildings are made of grey concrete bricks, which creates the main colour effect of the façade. In the part of the walls where the bricks are laid parallel to each other, without intertwining, metal bars are recessed, which makes the structure very stable.