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The Theoretical Medical Centre of Semmelweis University
\nBudapest Architectural Prize<\/strong><\/p>\n

Architects: Tam\u00e1s Noll, Attila Madzin <\/strong>
\nText: P\u00e9ter Haba <\/strong>
\nPhoto: Tam\u00e1s Bujnovszky <\/strong><\/p>\n

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The public investment worth 7,3 billion HUFs, which is an imposing one in Hungary even though a PPP (Public-Private Partnership) construction, was completed only a few months ago in J\u00f3zsefv\u00e1ros. The building referred to has been one the General Medical Faculty of Semmelweis University had dreamt of for 60 years \u2013 this is for how long the work of five institutes has been going on specializing in indispensible research and education in an environment unfitted for this purpose. Tam\u00e1s Noll, Attila Madzin, R\u00f3zsa Csavarga and their colleagues designed a building of excelling standards. Designers did not force the reconstruction of traditional urban block structure: instead they set the aim to create a compact mass form which improves the situation spontaneously formed, making more utilizable what is given and conjuring the spatial proportions of the streets more harmonious, whilst it still evokes something of the architectural-civic design characteristics of the area concerned.
\nDespite the wide variety of functions and the complex situation of development designers managed to have an extraordinarily clear and rational system of horizontal design derived directly from the function. The most self-evident possible and also the most fortunate solution has been selected. The overall impression is deviceless and yet professional: the architects\u2019 ambition here is not represented by formal bravura, but by the creation of an unbroken and compact structure seemingly contradicting the facilities, an approach opening up the functional problems including the most delicate details, and the sensitivity to the urban medium receiving the building.<\/p>\n

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The longitudinal space of the aula is enriched by two rows of pillars flanking it \u2013 the one on the side of the glass partition rising as high as the ceiling, whilst the other one borders the communication area embracing the entire structure like a backbone. The more spacious auditoriums and the central corridors of the lateral wings running diagonally including the smaller rooms of the research institutes (laboratories, research rooms, services) open from the latter, just like the lift and the stairs leading upstairs. This main corridor has its equivalent on the first floor opening up toward the aula like a choir. The upper levels are more closed in character, with rooms opening in a row from the narrower central corridors (rooms with administrative and educational functions are in the longitudinal parts, whilst those serving research work are housed in the diagonal wings). Designers had a firm concept of the spatial process to serve the function as much as possible: from the street we step into the spacious public space, the aula, from where we can go on into the semi-public zone of the corridor with a row of pillars, and then into the closed areas. This kind of a disciplined, distinguishing designers\u2019 attitude is evident in the shaping of forms as well as in the details and the selection of materials used. With its broken facade, row of slender pillars, transparent-glistening glass partitions, projecting roof plates the aula is a free-form, varied and open structure compared with the adjoining unit of educators and researchers forming a closed mass of a single prism. The terraced and stepped courtiles between the cross-wings are separated with glass partitions so as to make an unbroken prism form highlighting the contrast with the opened and unfolded transparent world of the aula. This hall is an excellent example of creating a representative imposing and generous space without complex and virtuosic forms based on the structure derived from the architectural system.
\nThe world of interior spaces is rendered deliberately richer in ideas and more true-life than the exterior which refers to the function primarily by its laconicism. As for forms, it is a little more taut and strict, but never dry: it is counterbalanced by the areas where the brokenline of the glass facade is marked by a free-standing thicker pillar and a roof with acute-angled projection separating the foreground for the main entrance. This is where the worlds of the exterior and interior so different come to meet. The building seemingly homogeneous from every aspect concentrates several formal-attitudinal principles elevating it into a synthesis.<\/p>\n

General design: Tam\u00e1s Noll \u2013 M-Teampannon Kft.<\/strong>
\nArchitect: Attila Madzin \u2013 M-Teampannon Kft.<\/strong>
\nInterior design: R\u00f3zsa Csavarga \u2013 M-Teampannon Kft.<\/strong>
\nFellow architects: P\u00e1l L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Alasztics, Eszter Ilka Cserveny\u00e1k, \u00c1gnes Klie, \u00c1gnes L\u00e9g\u00e1r, Ildik\u00f3 P\u00e9m, Gergely S\u00e1ndor, Zs\u00f3fia Sz\u0171cs, Kriszti\u00e1n T\u00f3th, Bence Varga, G\u00e1bor Zahor\u00e1n \u2013 M-Teampannon Kft.<\/strong>
\nStructure: Istv\u00e1n Kenese, Gabriella Berki \u2013 Megalit Kft.<\/strong>
\nPlumbing & HVAC: G\u00e1bor Cserveny\u00e1k, Eliza Cserveny\u00e1k, B\u00e9la Timk\u00f3, \u00c1ron Ha\u00e1sz, Istv\u00e1n Bodn\u00e1r, Mikl\u00f3s \u00c1bel \u2013 Klimasoil Kft.<\/strong>
\nElectrical engineering: Mih\u00e1ly Kucsk\u00e1r \u2013 VIL-ART Kft.<\/strong>
\nInformatical network: G\u00e1bor Kiss \u2013 EL-IN TERV Kft.<\/strong>
\nTraffic: Mikl\u00f3s Sz\u00e1lka \u2013 Pro Urbe Kft.<\/strong>
\nAutomation of the building: L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Harmath \u2013 IQ Kft.<\/strong>
\nAcoustics: Guszt\u00e1v J\u00f3zsa \u2013 J\u00f3zsa \u00e9s T\u00e1rsa 2000 Kft.<\/strong>
\nFire protection: Levente Sz\u00f6ll\u0151sy \u2013 T\u0171zinfo.hu Bt.<\/strong>
\nFlooring: Antal \u00d6rk\u00e9nyi <\/strong>
\nGarden: Gabi Vastagh, Borb\u00e1la B\u00e1r\u00e1ny \u2013 Garten Studio<\/strong>
\nClient: SE Campus Kft.<\/strong>
\nMain contractor: Arcadom Zrt.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t