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Builders: architects from the K\u00e1roly K\u00f3s Association and from Miskolc, university students<\/strong><\/p>\n

Text: Mih\u00e1ly Rudolf<\/p>\n

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Pint\u00e9r D\u00e1niel mintah\u00e1z terve<\/p><\/div>\n

The emotional wounds caused by the flood disaster last year in Zsolca may never get healed. However, everyone living there could celebrate the Christmas of 2010 in a new house. This was partly owing to the generally selfless help of Hungarian architects. We should emphasize this now when the year of the election prioritizing political interests is over. Recognition should be expressed at last impartially. As in reoccurring emergency situations \u2013 designers shall see it independent of their social nexus \u2013 the design groups have been formed that could be relied upon when reconstructing. Now as we go to press the new year threatens this region with another flood and the soon ensuing extraordinary inland flood threatens almost half of the total area of Hungary: there is need for joining forces once again. (The editor)<\/p>\n

A long phase of preparation, administration, intensive designing-constructing stage characterized the reconstruction in Fels\u0151zsolca. Early summer last year flood hit the town more than once, in several waves. The last one \u2013 the worst hit \u2013 came on June 5th washing away many houses in the villages of Borsod-Aba\u00faj-Zempl\u00e9n county. In Fels\u0151zsolca \u2013 beyond damaged infrastructure, roads, bridges, line networks and public buildings \u2013 more than 1800 cases of damage done to dwelling houses were reported. This is a large number compared to the total of 2,200 residential buildings in Zsolca. Of those houses built of adobe and\/or cob walls 173 collapsed, and 28 real estates were rated as life-threatening ones. More than half of the damage done to the county was concentrated here, thus Zsolca had been treated specially by the flood.<\/p>\n

Architects and itinerants of the K\u00e1roly K\u00f3s Association \u2013 joined by university students and the professionals of two architects\u2019 offices based in Miskolc \u2013 made survey on the spot in Fels\u0151zsolca at 201 critically damaged real estates with the intention of designing new houses in line with the traditions of the village and suited for the actual sites instead of general and potential assistance in design. The regional plan of urban development made for Fels\u0151zsolca in 2005 proposed 84 residential buildings for local protection. The projected salvage of values was based on a photo-documentation with details of the spatial and mass formation of the 84 houses concerned. Architects of the K\u00e1roly K\u00f3s Association and Miskolc-based Hadas Studio used this cadastre for their first sketches and then also for the actual individual designs. M\u00e1nyi Studio \u2013 helping the reconstruction after the flood in Bereg with several designs together with the K\u00e1roly K\u00f3s Association \u2013 had similar ideas and updated their designs made nine years ago to suit the criteria of home designs typical of the Borsod region.<\/p>\n

A total of 100 designs were submitted for the national tender by the deadline (July 15th, 2010), of which 50 were selected and qualified as proposed ones by the designated jury. In Fels\u0151zsolca the Reconstruction Project Committee chose 22 (and then 16) from these 50 designs, adjusting to house designs of the local tradition, the construction of which was schedullable, adaptable and easy to realize. It was also necessary to do so because meanwhile negotiations with potential building contractors had to be launched. With regard to feasibility and also to avoid confusion, the contractors requested to have construction based on the least number of proposed designs possible. Among the 22 designs those by D\u00f3m \u00c9p\u00edt\u00e9szm\u0171terem Ltd., DOP Architecture and W\u00e9ber \u00c9p\u00edt\u00e9sz Iroda Ltd. were also included. Half of the 50 designs approved by the jury and all of the 16 selected designs were submitted by the Association, M\u00e1nyi Studio or Hadas Studio. The last phase of selecting designers, which had been a procedure launched simultaneously with the tender itself, was about the selection of the victims of the disaster. Fifty clients had their houses built after 9 different designs made by 8 architects\/duo of architects (Imre Bal\u00e1zs Arn\u00f3czki, Tibor Bata, Judit Gerencs\u00e9r, Di\u00e1na Mike, Mariann Nagy and Zolt\u00e1n Lipt\u00e1k, D\u00e1niel Pint\u00e9r, Tam\u00e1s R\u00fcll, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Zsigmond).<\/p>\n

The flood caused devastating damage to buildings all over the village. The tragedy itself, the threatening and inexact reports by the media as well as a mistaken sentence uttered by L\u00e1szl\u00f3 S\u00f3lyom president of the Hungarian Republic resulted in chaos and misunderstandings among town-dwellers who had been calm till then. As a result of elections, at the beginning of October every member of the board of representatives of the local government was replaced by new ones including the mayor. By the end of the year the commission of the author of this article as a chief architect was also terminated after six years. The new local government has not organized any kind of forum yet to discuss the anomalies of reconstruction, architectural and environmental issues also concerning the townscape and the lay-out plan.<\/p>\n

The rapidity with which the job was done by building contractors is praiseworthy. It was a priority for them to keep themselves on the deadline dictated \u2013 not only with regard to invoicing, but also because of assistance. The new houses meant comfort for their dwellers. At Christmastime birth, new standards and light could move into their homes.<\/p>\n

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