Cubic Houses Reinterpreted

The Grafit Studio’s Sample Designs Text and concept: Grafit Studio The designs for the Lechner Centre’s 2019 competition for the idea of a model design allow for the redesign of the well-known “cube house” type design into expandable detached family houses that meet today’s needs and trends. Grafit Studio architects designed variations for both rural […]

The Tangible and the Intangible

Press house in the Balaton Highlands Architects: Katalin Csillag, Zsolt Gunther Text: Anett Mizsei Photos: Balázs Danyi The material and immaterial components of architecture interact in the concept of Katalin Csillag and Zsolt Gunther’s press house designed to be built in the Balaton Highlands. The encounter of structures and light creates living rhythms that change […]

The Gyimes Skanzen through the Eyes of an Architect

Transylvania, Harghita county Text and photos: István Szász The 2.9 hectare site was bought by the Szász family in 2002, when it was just a small wooden house and its barn. The house was surrounded by fruit trees, a potato field along the creek, and a few pine and birch trees dotted the pasture on […]

The Self-Sustaining Garden

Family House Garden, Budaörs Garden of the Year 2022 Landscape architecture: Balázs Almási, Roland Szurovecz Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Balázs Almási, Eszter Miller, Roland Szurovecz The garden of a detached family house built on a steep slope in the hillside of Budaörs has won the Garden of the Year 2022 award. Its designers, Balázs Almási […]

Inclusion

MCC Pavilion, Révfülöp Architecture: Páricsy és Társai Text: Marcell Szuhanyik Photo: György Palkó The area known as the Cholnoky Jenő Children and Youth Harbour in Révfülöp has been under the management of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium Talent Foundation for only a few years, but since then it has been under continuous development. A boat repair […]

Natural and Up-to-date

New Directions in Wood Architecture Text: Eszter Götz Environmental awareness has become an increasingly important aspect of contemporary architecture. However, only a few clients are interested in the underlying environmental issues. It is difficult to get real information about the production processes of products that are claimed to be environmentally friendly. In addition to this, […]

From Earth to Sun

Solar House, Bárdudvarnok Architect: Péter Medgyasszay Text: Eszter Götz Photos: János Páli Architect Péter Medgyasszay and his colleagues were commissioned to design a solar house for a family with seven children moving from the Budapest agglomeration to the countryside. As this is the first house of its kind in the country, they turned to models […]

My Grandfather’s House

Traditional house-building master-inside training Text: András Krizsán DLA Photos: Nagyapám háza It is accepted practice throughout Europe to ensure the preservation of protected vernacular buildings either in museum (skansen) settings or to encourage their use in situ in their own environment, in keeping with their original character and character, preferably with reference to their original […]

Living materials, alternative systems

Text: Balázs Válóczy People who find me as an architect usually already feel the serious problems of the climate changing and the degradation of the environment, as well as the responsibility of architecture in these processes, and start looking for a way out. Among them are those who are willing to do it and pay […]

The Early Bird Catches the Worm

Evolution of water collection structures Text: Bálint Botzheim The city of Feodosia on the southeastern coast of the Crimean peninsula was once founded by the Greeks of Miletus as a colonial city. There is little precipitation in the area, but due to the proximity of the sea, the air is often humid. According to legend, […]

Environmentally Positive Architecture

Lungs of the City – Solar Decathlon Europe 2022 Text: PTE MIK – Tamás Kondor Dr, Hajnalka Juhász, Csilla Kondor-Hegedüs Photos: BUW SDE 21/22 In 2002, the Department of Energy of the United States launched Solar Decathlon, the world’s largest international building innovation competition. The competition for a sustainable, healthy built environment takes place every […]

The Future of Hybrid Buildings

Water-filled Glass Text: Mátyás Gutai Photos: WATER-FILLED GLASS LIMITED Water-filled Glass is a new glass technology that can be used as window glass or as a complete curtain wall; for roofs, it can be installed as skylights, glass skylights or even as complete glass roofs. The technological innovation is a layer of water flowing in […]