Madárhegyi Kindergarten, Budapest

Architects: Csaba Nagy, Károly Pólus
Text: Marcell Szuhanyik
Photos: Balázs Danyi

Located in Budapest, Madárhegy has been an area earmarked for development for several decades, and the expansion of family life in the early 2000s, which was at its peak then, prompted people to move to the agglomeration. Newly built condominiums now rise on the site of orchards of the recent past. One of these requirements is met by the recent municipal investment in a kindergarten project. Architects from Archikon have strong credentials in designing spaces for children. The building design does not only include a kindergarten, but also a group of buildings made up of a crèche, a nursery, a two-office paediatrician’s surgery and outdoor playing areas, which are connected by these components, thus placing them in a specifically protected position. On the corner of the site, facing Madárhegyi Road, a creative outdoor play area will be created also functioning as a public park for the residents of the neighbourhood. The nursery and the kindergarten are connected by an in-between twing, the common kitchen, which borders the inner courtyard and the site itself from the north, leaving only parking and loading space for vehicles that deliver supplies to the kitchen.

Lead architects: Csaba Nagy, Károly Pólus
Architects: Eszter Major, Réka Hargitai, Miklós Batta
Fellow architects: Júlia Harmath, Bence Várhidi, Borbála Véghelyi
Landscape architects: Máté Pécsi, Emese Koltai, Eszter Ripszám, Wang Xiao – Objekt Landscape Architects
Structure: Tibor Pintér
HVAC: Imre Miskolczy, Béla Lakatos
Electrical engineering: Gábor Pihelevics, Csaba Csobánki
Weak current: Károly Borsányi
Fire protection: Zsolt Fenyvesi, Dorina Szilágyi
Kitchen technology: Árpád Rátonyi