Budapest Szive - "Heart of Budapest" is an architectural and urban design ideas competition held in 2006 on the extension of the City Hall of Budapest, Hungary and a new urban concept for the metropolitan city centre, including the reconfiguration of the traffic system, public spaces and landscape design.
Urban Principles.
- to connect the two districts above and under Kossuth Lajos Street
- to enhance the rehabilitation of the Northern residential area
- to emphasis the "chain" character of Kiskörút (a boulevard)
- to create a barrier wall along Károly Boulevard
- to enhance and create inner connections and network in the urban tissue
- to open the city centre in the direction of the river Danube
- to lead the traffic underground along the riverbank
- to open the Ferenciek Square for pedestrians
Urban Concept.
The basic urban concept of the Budapest Szive project is to string the neighbouring public squares and spaces for a new axis between the Madách Square and the City Hall. This axis reaches formerly unused public spaces, gives a new meaning to them, and changes the whole “being in the heart of the city” phenomenon.
section Március 15 Square
None the less the axis, the new heart of Budapest is the City Hall with the new cultural hub created there. The space concept of the extension is led by urban considerations. Both the exterior and interior spaces try to relay on the diversity of the city centre. The volume of the extension creates a sequence of exterior spaces which become more and more intimate in the direction of the existing building and the riverbank.
section Ferenciek Square I section Danube
In the direction of the riverbank not only the exterior spaces of the Town Hall are getting more and more intimate but also the different surrounding public spaces. To enhance this observation we created a transitional space at Szervita Square. This square is part of the sequence of spaces on the main axis of the proposal.
section international port I section Duna-korzó
The riverbank on the eastern side of the Danube is world heritage listed, but in its current state it is far not worthy for the prestigious ranking. Large scale interventions are needed to be done. The proposal lowers the traffic under the ground along the riverbank so is able to create a real connection to the river. On the level of the current lower embankment a pedestrian promenade is created, with different characteristic parts. The prestigious buildings and the upper promenade of the riverbank are physically connected to the river via this.
The riverbank on the eastern side of the Danube is world heritage listed, but in its current state it is far not worthy for the prestigious ranking. Large scale interventions are needed to be done. The proposal lowers the traffic under the ground along the riverbank so is able to create a real connection to the river. On the level of the current lower embankment a pedestrian promenade is created, with different characteristic parts. The prestigious buildings and the upper promenade of the riverbank are physically connected to the river via this.
City Hall.
The task was to design a new extension for the existing historical City Hall. The extension is new a cultural centre in the heart of the city housing several cultural functions:
gallery,
The task was to design a new extension for the existing historical City Hall. The extension is new a cultural centre in the heart of the city housing several cultural functions:
studio,
theatre,
TV studio,
information point,
media library,
music store,
book store,
cultural offices,
convention centre,
café,
restaurant,
retail.
The new extension of the City Hall is willing to join the whole block to the city centre both physically and visually. The extension is closing the block of the City Hall, respects the existing historical building but has no intention to follow the original design. The proposal leaves the space arrangement of the City Hall untouched except two points where the new design pervades the existing building physically and joins the two parts functionally.
elevation Károly Boulevard
The superficially hectic volume of the extension is trying to articulate the diversity and pulsation of the metropolitan life. The building reflects the layout and façade line of the Károly Boulevard, answers to the gate motif of the Madách Square, relates to the difference of the urban tissue around the block. The proposal gives a dynamic architectural and urban solution for the above mentioned aspects.
longitudinal section
elevation courtyard I crosssection
3rd floor I 1st floor
4th floor I -1st floor
Budapest Szíve "Heart of Budapest" - Budapest, Hungary
architectural and urban design ideas competition
position: architect
design: 2006
architecture, urban design, landscape design: Opaq Architect Studio
Bajsz Edit, Cservenyák Eszter, Kiss Ida, Matúz Melinda, Susan Ernst-Zatursky
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