Projects
CHURCH CONVERSION
Concept project for reusing the abandoned unitarian (calvinist protestant) church in a small, mountain mining town as a cultural center. Our approach was inserting the new function as a separate smaller volume keeping the ruined, roofless church wall structure dominating. + complete design freedom – the project most likely will stay in this concept phase: too few locals to dream about it.
B.C.U. – OPEN-STACK
Competition entry. Maximum capacity on a specially small plot, within the historic pavilion clinic tissue. Vertical circulation and annex function nodes position allows for maximum surface on the slabs. The oversize capacity tries to stay within a compact volume and a minimal number of floors, taking from the context proportions and rhytm. Passive means of preserving solar energy were considered. Optimal opaque / transparent surface proportions differ according to orientation and cast shadow. Adjustable sunshades protect transparent patches from overheating but allow for solar gain in the cold period. Concrete floors and vertical circulation and annex functions nodes walls are […]
PIAŢA PACII / PEACE SQUARE
All squares on the perimeter of the original walled city are dominated by car traffic in Cluj. PIAŢA PĂCII / PEACE SQUARE has turned during the 20th century into a node for several routes related to the thick university life within the city. Further more, The Central University Library and the Student’s Cultural Centre both flank the square. Therefore, car routes should criss-cross underground, and free space should be provided above to be taken over. Vienna hilft Klausenburg out with second hand MQ urban furniture and the first Transylvania Anime Festival makes it’s weird ways among the students, always chillin’ […]
RECONSTRUCTION OF CITADEL GATE
Reconstruction of the Vauban fortress trench filled up partially at the beginning of the 20th century in the main square of Alba Iulia. Part of a bigger project dealing with the whole Alba Carolina fortress revitalization currently in construction. + shaping an urban space in previously unused areas – being a subcontractor for the 3D visuals we didn’t design much to do but the square pavement with historical pattern
HOVERHOOD EUROPAN 10
The theme of the Hungarian site was the revitalization of the post-socialist city centre of Ajka.We proposed a lightweight upper layer over the existing public structures: a private housing neighbourhood landscape – made up of a set of dispersed housing units with garden and considerable semi-public / semi-private space. + first EUROPAN for the original blipsz! team – lumpish preparations, fast finish, sarcasm
MINING MUSEUM
Inserting a new function into the historical fabric of an old mining village – Rosia Montana / Verespatak / Goldbach, Rothseifen. 9+3 buildings and plots involved, specific labyrinthine spatial connections preserved. Renovation of existing houses completed using traditional means while additions are new. + dealing with heritage area open to a progressive approach, learning new tools for 3D animation, renderings – noisy political and ecological controversy around the mining investment; until projects are about saving, preserving, building, we are in
UNIRII SQUARE
Competition entry. Theoretical / methodological plea against the mere pavement-pattern and urban furniture design approach in not only local “urbanism”. Landscape-ecology systemic view of nodes and channels was speculated for dealing with the improvement of groud-floor public functions structure that would provide for complex public life in the square and vice versa. Our thinking got too complicated at that time, but at least it has cleared a direction that is worth tackling ever since. Immersion into the urban system of networks and emerging processes is necessary in a period of peaking superficial concept urbanism
PANEL PARA
The workshop organized by fellow Memoria Moderna association of Budapest has assumed dealing conceptually with the flat neighbourhood legacy for one of the first times around “the block” in 2005. The workshop lead by the ever astonishing no.mad architect Eduardo Arroyo has provided the original blipsz! team one of the most inspiring design processes of their professional lifes so far. We have designed a second public landscape above the “unsolvable” original parking layer, that eventually merges with the ground floor. The new layer houses all the functions needed for a balanced function mix additional to housing and provides actually usable […]
ECO-TERRA BASE CAMP / ECO-LOGICS
Instead of nostalgia – progressivism: natural and stimulative in it’s essence. Instead of hierarchy – an integration of humans and technology within the complex system of nature – turning architectural logics instantly eco logical. Nature works through highly sensitive means of communication. Not to break these dialogues, we answer with topography and programme pliable, permissive, still obvious and obviously interested in the continuous movement within the small worlds it belongs to. We would like to keep trace locally of all the fluxes involved, densified here by fluxes specific to human presence. We offer a multifunctional setting: a base-camp for nomads, […]
