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The New Community Hall of Hungarian Saints\u2019 Parish, Budapest<\/strong><\/p>\n

Architects: Mih\u00e1ly Bal\u00e1zs, D\u00e1vid T\u00f6r\u00f6k, Bal\u00e1zs Falvai, M\u00e1rton Nagy<\/strong>
\nText: Eszter G\u00f6tz<\/strong>
\nPhotos: Antal B\u00e1nhegyesy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Located in the campus of ELTE in L\u00e1gym\u00e1nyos, the Hungarian Saints\u2019 Church was extended by a new community hall, which was justified by the pure fact that the congregation attracts a lot of young people due to the proximity of the church. The building is the single structure actually built of the Budapest World Exhibition 1996 which remained on blueprint. According to the plans, this would have been the world exhibition pavilion of the Holy See, and it was to function as the church of the new university district after the closure of the exhibition. After the cancellation of the project the Hungarian Catholic Episcopacy decided to construct the church. Ferenc T\u00f6r\u00f6k and Mih\u00e1ly Bal\u00e1zs worked out a concept defined a kind of synthesis: the design of the building reflected various stages of the Christian church architecture. Due to various reasons the exterior resembling a fortified church would have been impossible and yet inevitable, as later on a communal all would be needed even more, where some 150-200 young people participating in the congregation could meet on a weekly basis. In 2016 Mih\u00e1ly Bal\u00e1zs was commissioned to design the addition, and he involved architect D\u00e1vid T\u00f6r\u00f6k, the son of his former fellow architect, Ferenc T\u00f6r\u00f6k. They worked out in tandem a follow-up of te existing structure that would not compromise the spirituality of te original building, and yet almost invisibly and unnoticed it connects a space larger than 300 square metres suited for a variety of functions. The solution found contains the elevation of the slightly inclined green lane next to the church topped with a spherical dome and the positioning of the block underground.<\/p>\n

General architecture: Bal\u00e1zs Mih\u00e1ly architect\u2019s studio and dmb Studio<\/strong>
\nArchitecture: Mih\u00e1ly Bal\u00e1zs DLA, D\u00e1vid T\u00f6r\u00f6k DLA, Bal\u00e1zs Falvai DLA, M\u00e1rton Nagy DLA<\/strong>
\nFellow architects: No\u00e9mi Gy\u00e1rf\u00e1s, Piroska Varga, M\u00f3nika Bord\u00e1s<\/strong>
\nStructure: \u00c1kos Medek<\/strong>
\nHVAC: Zo\u00e1rd Mangel, Zolt\u00e1n N\u00e9meth<\/strong>
\nElectrical engineering: L\u00e1szl\u00f3 K\u00f3sa, Anik\u00f3 Farkas<\/strong>
\nAccessibility: Andr\u00e1s Pandula<\/strong>
\nClient: Esztergom-Budapest Archdiocese<\/strong>
\nMain contractor: Laterex Ltd.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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