Design study for a multifunctional cultural centre, similar to the Budapest Palace of Arts, for the Siberian city of Surgut.
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Corvin Áruház Megújítása (En)
The proposal complying with the client’s demand for the renewal of the dysfunctional building of Corvin Department Store, one of the first large department stores in Budapest, is a UEC (Urban Entertainment Center) not yet existent at the time in Budapest, which unites attractive high-end retail and cultural facilities. The retail zone designed at the street level and additional upstairs levels and the elegant banquet hall above them looking at the city, or in another version the roof level event space, can be, differing from shopping mall retail outlets, a venue for amusement, gastronomy or special product presentations – while the large halls may receive high-quality and popular mass events. Retail sales and gastronomy will be installed in the ground-floor and underground spaces in a section independent from the events. The attractions of the building complying with its individual function and urban role are the special spatial experiences: arriving from the metro, the terraced stairs, or the soft, amorphous mass of the central showroom floating in space. The sketch designs gave a proposal for not only the possible rehabilitation of the building, but, by the study of the complete urban environment, designated its role in the framework of the revitalization concept of the inner city.
Sasadliget lakópark (En)
The area of the former Kinizsi Barracks on the Sasad slope – with a vista to Sashegy and Csillebérc – with its neglected buildings and deteriorated green surfaces is the last large, contiguous real estate property divided into seven distinct blocks by the regulation plan.
The architectural office prepared the development concept for the entire 10.5-ha area, for the 1.9-ha area to be built up in the first phase as well as the plans for the residential park consisting of 6 individually designed residential buildings altogether with 215 apartments.
After the joint work on the concept, an architect of its own was assigned to each building, so each house within the block represents an individual character. Adjusted to the organic terrain conditions, two point houses and four houses with side corridors were designed. The buildings with complex masses are adjusted outwards, towards the site boundaries, surrounding a park adjusted to the existing terrain form – a trench. The green area formed in the interior of the block is enriched with spectacular space elements as a result of terrain shaping. In the planning process, the architects attempted to resolve the usual monotony of residential parks by the individual shaping of the buildings.
A budavári, volt Honvédelmi Főparancsnokság épületének hasznosítása (En)
In cooperation with Péter Kis’s Architects Studio, a tourism and cultural centre was designed for Dísz Square, the pivotal point of Buda Castle, by re-thinking the ruins of the former Headquarters for National Defence and Ministry of National Defence. The contemporary stone block refers to the roof shapes of the Buda Castle.
On the ground floor and under the terrain, the spaces of tourism and building services, on the first floor, an event hall with special interior design, while on the second floor, on the “architectural plateau” created at a 10-m height, a space for individual fine art exhibitions of nation-wide importance or large events was designed.
Művészetek Palotája, Szentpétervár (En)
The concept worked out for Trigránit Zrt as developer examined the possibility of creating a new city centre on Vasilyevsky Island the ports of which are of high importance in the city’s architectural and institutional life, and where one of Russia’s greatest universities is found. In the original concept, in the framework of a mixed-use development, a commercial complex was coupled with residential, office and hotel functions and with the installation of a big television production studio. The planned synergic complex provides excellent services for the population of the area and the business life of the city.
The second version was the architectural part of a PPP tender of an investor. Here, we proposed a mixed-use development: in the heart of the project, we conceived a multifunctional facility complying with the complex technological expectations and preserving and renewing Saint Petersburg’s cultural traditions in a modern manner including concert, conference and exhibition facilities. Apart from the concert hall with adjustable acoustics, seating 1,800, an exhibition and event centre and a conference hall seating 2,500 was planned. The installation of the all-round complex resulted in different, dynamic external and internal spaces, creating a new city centre in Saint Petersburg.
Spirál I. Irodaház (En)
The orientation of the office building was fundamentally determined by the would-be promenade. The building is organized around the internal court rather than the noisy, polluted and traffic-loaded Dózsa György Road. The building mass is split into two parts, it slightly turns inward from the street line, forming a gateway to the inside of the block. The two blocks are held together by the generous roof. Raising the level of the courts by about 1.5 m over the street level contributes to the conservation of the intimacy of the internal courts and the promenade. The central lobby is a graceful glass pavilion serving as a sort of a filter between the road and the internal world of the building, and it provides free access to the internal restaurants and cafés. The courts are integral parts of the promenade with the terraces, water surfaces and richly planted vegetation.
As a continuation of the Spiral Office Building, the next phase is built on Lehel Road which is connected to the first office building in the interior of the block. This site is a typical vacant lot, so it shows a more closed view towards the street than the main façade of the Dózsa György Road building. The materials chosen for both buildings are identical, so despite the different handling of the facades, the two buildings may be visually connected.
The rear section of the house is organized towards the internal promenade, so the community functions are located there. Due to the installation, the ground-floor spaces are made usable, in this building too, by lively gardens as well as small and large courts. The lower two levels were designed with looser building-up ratios than the typical levels, because these are the main community spaces where transparency, breeziness and spatial experience are the most important.
Based on similar principles, the architects shaped easy-to-divide, flexible office spaces in both Spiral Office Buildings which can be adjusted to the needs of would-be tenants. The functions completing the office spaces – retail outlets, restaurants, cafés and conference hall – provide high-standard environment for those working there, complying with today’s requirements.
For the houses functioning as rental offices, because of the primordial economic aspects, ZDA undertook to design simple elevations, coloured plastering for all internal court facades, and only the street elevations received a nobler clothing.
This duality has always characterized closed-row city developments in the course of history. On the street elevations, various structures were formed from large panels, creating a unique plasticity on both buildings. The use of identical materials and colours unite the two buildings, but the different elevation surfacing reacts to the different environments.
Fácán Rendezvényhelyszín, Zugliget (En)
This part of Zugliget was a popular hiking spot of Buda citizens in the late 1800s. Now, the area is decaying under unworthy conditions. We wished to return the area to its former glory by renovating the Hild Villa, the Fácán Inn (former Horthy Villa) and a residential building in the style of Swiss villas situated on the 8.7-hectare protected area. Our feasibility study envisaged the renovation of the existing monument buildings, installing additional functions and constructions, designing a residence, governmental guest house and event centre.
