{"id":3701,"date":"2011-05-09T15:04:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T13:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meonline.hu\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2011-06-28T13:09:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T11:09:21","slug":"nagyszikla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meonline.hu\/en\/archivum\/nagyszikla\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Great Rock in the Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden<\/strong><\/p>\n

Text: Gy\u00f6rgyi Csontos
\nArchitects: P\u00e9ter Kis, G\u00e1bor Reischl\u2020, G\u00e1bor Tur\u00e1nyi
\nPhotos: Zolt\u00e1n Bagosi, Zsolt Bat\u00e1r, P\u00e9ter Romv\u00e1ri<\/p>\n

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The concept being realized now in its modernized form was born 100 years ago: it is in one of the most bizarre structures of the Budapest Zoo named the Big Rock. Erected during the large-scale reconstruction in 1909-12, it was moulded after an existing limestone hill with a dolomite cap in Transylvani. Its renewal in 2006-08 gave new impetus to the recycling of the building itself. When realizing the utilization designs, its architects \u2013 P\u00e9ter Kis and fellow designers \u2013 chose an approach based on analogous thinking governed by the variety of lifestyles and the variety of live and inorganic systems, the diversity of which was interpreted as a reaction to environmental challenges and issues to be tackled. They are planning to make it all experience-like this way, by means of exhibition and technology adjusted to the actual spaces. Imitating the forms of a limestone hill, the design of the interiors of the structure as well as their illumination is based on the analogy of a cave: defined by the method of water finding its way within a limestone hill light filters through the huge, dark and empty space bordered by the crust of the artificial rock.<\/p>\n

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The structural recontrusction of the Great Rock (2006-08):<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. Ilma Bogsch
\nArchitecture: P\u00e9ter Kis \u2013 P\u00e9ter Kis \u00c9p\u00edt\u00e9szm\u0171terme Kft., Dr. G\u00e1bor Reischl \u2013 Abora Kft, G\u00e1bor Tur\u00e1nyi, Erika Ign\u00e1cz, P\u00e9ter Gereben \u2013 T+S Kft., Istv\u00e1n Simon \u2013 SI Kft.
\nFellow architects: P\u00e9ter S\u00e1ndor Nagy, P\u00e9ter Nyitrai, Szabolcs Somlai-Fischer, Tam\u00e1s \u00dck\u00f6s
\nModel: Bal\u00e1zs Szlabey,
\nStructure: Ervin Kiss \u2013 Kerouac Bt., Dr. B\u00e9la Kov\u00e1cs \u2013 \u00c9MI Rt., Tibor Andorka \u2013 \u00c9MI T\u00dcV<\/p>\n

The reconstruction of the Great Rock, interior (2010-12):<\/p>\n

Director: Prof. Dr. Mikl\u00f3s Pers\u00e1nyi
\nArchitecture: P\u00e9ter Kis – P\u00e9ter Kis \u00c9p\u00edt\u00e9szm\u0171terme Kft.
\nArchitects: Bea Moln\u00e1r, P\u00e9ter Nyitrai, Tam\u00e1s \u00dck\u00f6s
\nFellow architcets: Orsolya H\u0151na, P\u00e9ter H\u00e1mori, R\u00f3bert Erd\u00e9lyi, Piroska Varga, \u00c1d\u00e1m Potzner
\nCAD: Zsolt Alexa, Bea Moln\u00e1r, P\u00e9ter Romv\u00e1ri
\nStructure: P\u00e9ter Markovits, Ang\u00e9la Detzky – MTM Kft.
\nInstallations: Andr\u00e1s Oltvai, Tam\u00e1s Oltvai, Zsolt Lengyel \u2013 Oltvai G\u00e9p\u00e9sz St\u00fadi\u00f3 Kft.
\nElectrical engineering: Dezs\u0151 Sax \u2013 Hochplan Kft.<\/p>\n

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