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Conversion of the Franciscan Convent and St Anthony\u2019s Church in Pasar\u00e9t, Budapest<\/strong><\/p>\n

Architect: G\u00e1bor Sajtos<\/strong>
\nText: Zolt\u00e1n Dragon<\/strong>
\nPhotos: Tam\u00e1s Bujnovszky<\/strong><\/p>\n

The complex housing the Franciscan Convent and St Anthony\u2019s Church in Pasar\u00e9t was consecrated in 1934 and was perhaps the most modern church building in Budapest back in tose days. Its designer, Gyula Riman\u00f3czy made several interventions on the convent in 1948, the most important of them being its L-shaped extension added to the ground floor. In the 1980s in a comprehensive renovation project the church received a new liturgical space, and a new floor was also constructed to top the convent. The conversion now meant the demolition of the badly deteriorated structures and parts around the quadrum as designed by architect G\u00e1bor Sajtos, and new ones were also built, lowering the already sunken ground level by another 60 centimetres. As a result, a new fully valuable spatial row on the cellar level. Thanks to the sinking of the ground level the four spare rooms, the new wing containing two offices and confession room, sitting-room, parlour, library reading room, recreation room, library, archives stores could be levelled with the block of the former convent. Light effects and conditions have also been changed: glass bricks were replaced by windows hidden behind grille structures already applied on the community house, skylights have been integrated into the parlour and the confession room. St Francis\u2019s statue by Mikl\u00f3s Borsos was placed back to the centre of the yard, and was completed with a dozen of monolithic seatings. The renovation of the church appears to have been modest: besides the painting and reproduction of the facework a baptistery was constructed from the former office, the ceiling lighting of which was designed after the decoration of the pulpit depicting the dove of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n

Architecture, interiors: SAGRA Architects<\/strong>
\nLeading architect: G\u00e1bor Sajtos DLA<\/strong>
\nArchitects and interior designers: G\u00e1bor Sajtos DLA, Gabriella Sajtos-Grand, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Tak\u00e1cs, P\u00e9ter Vir\u00e1g, Anna B\u00e1lint, S\u00e1ra Pint\u00e9r, Zsolt J\u00e4rger, Andr\u00e1s P\u00e1ll<\/strong>
\nMonument history expert: Istv\u00e1n Hars\u00e1nyi<\/strong>
\nStructure: Kopp\u00e1ny Madaras, Botond Madaras<\/strong>
\nHVAC: L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Potoczky<\/strong>
\nElectrical engineering: Andr\u00e1s T\u00f3th<\/strong>
\nEnvironment: M\u00e1ty\u00e1s Fodor<\/strong>
\nClient: Magyarok Nagyasszonya Franciscan Order<\/strong><\/p>\n

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