winery in Eger, Hungary

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A small winery processing about 400 hl wine per year possessing a total storing capacity of 800hl. The area is surrounded by cliffs from an earlier stone mining period of the region, this way many small wineries take advantage of the situation and create their cellar by digging a huge hole horizontally inside the slopes. In my case I decided to put the complex on the top of the cliff as a ‘prosthesis’: an extraneous piece inside the hill. One of the most important concept of the winery was to demonstrate the method of traditional wine making step by step and using gravity as the only transporting system between the phases. The other important element is the dark straight gap between the building and the existing context. This gap has three important functions: it represents the way of the grape on the facade, this is the aisle both for the workers and the visitors and finally it drops shadow on the outside walls of the cellars. All in all my point was to reach a balance between the traditions of a region and the solutions of contemporary architecture.

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nursery school, Budapest - BA degree project

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curveture - parametric shelf
Hungarian Design Award finalist 2011

The purpose was to design a wall-kind furniture that can adapt to its surrounding. A curve controlled by its control points can adapt to any kind of geometrical form, this way it became the base of the concept. Technically the parametric shelf is a script which calculates planar rows and columns between two or more curves defined by the floorplan. All the properties of the parametric system can be modified constantly - the distance between the horizontal and vertical slabs, the width of the shelf, the thickness ofthe elements and even the two base curve. Therefore the future function and the space define all the variables. The final plan decomposed to its elements can easily be cut bya laser cutter.

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House and outbuilding for a couple, Vereb 

As I visited the building plot at Vereb I decided to separate it into two parts. One would be a front garden which is connected to the main road of the village and at the ad­jacent site of it is surrounded by a brick firewall. The other part would be an inner and thus a more personal garden. Walking by the adjoining brick wall a miraculous world opens with ancient trees and a small brook at the end of the lot, and I’ve felt that I must protect this part of the garden from the „outside world” to give more privacy for the future home there.

In my plan the two buildings have got very strict facade facing the street made of horizontally arranged stone coverage and amongst them there is a small wooden pathway symbolizing a gate between the two worlds. The dwelling-house’s western facade is totally opened, it’s full of large windows which can be easily pulled away at summertime thus getting a huge, shiny space connected with the garden.

I decided to make a carpenter’s workroom from the outbuilding. That’s why I lifted the eastern fa­cade of it making a huge window to let the morning sunshine in, and let the woodworker to start the work with the rising sun. That’s how I’ve got a gallery big enough for the fine works. To get to this gallery I planned an ajar staircase pushing hardwood steps between the flat horizontal stones of which the walls are made.

5 months ago 

Temporary floating shelters for a wine festival, Eger

R E L A T E D   V I D E O I - concept

R E L A T E D   V I D E O II - visualization

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winery in Eger, Hungary

R E L A T E D  V I D E O

A small winery processing about 400 hl wine per year possessing a total storing capacity of 800hl. The area is surrounded by cliffs from an earlier stone mining period of the region, this way many small wineries take advantage of the situation and create their cellar by digging a huge hole horizontally inside the slopes. In my case I decided to put the complex on the top of the cliff as a ‘prosthesis’: an extraneous piece inside the hill. One of the most important concept of the winery was to demonstrate the method of traditional wine making step by step and using gravity as the only transporting system between the phases. The other important element is the dark straight gap between the building and the existing context. This gap has three important functions: it represents the way of the grape on the facade, this is the aisle both for the workers and the visitors and finally it drops shadow on the outside walls of the cellars. All in all my point was to reach a balance between the traditions of a region and the solutions of contemporary architecture.

nursery school, Budapest - BA degree project

R E L A T E D  V I D E O

curveture - parametric shelf
Hungarian Design Award finalist 2011

The purpose was to design a wall-kind furniture that can adapt to its surrounding. A curve controlled by its control points can adapt to any kind of geometrical form, this way it became the base of the concept. Technically the parametric shelf is a script which calculates planar rows and columns between two or more curves defined by the floorplan. All the properties of the parametric system can be modified constantly - the distance between the horizontal and vertical slabs, the width of the shelf, the thickness ofthe elements and even the two base curve. Therefore the future function and the space define all the variables. The final plan decomposed to its elements can easily be cut bya laser cutter.

House and outbuilding for a couple, Vereb 

As I visited the building plot at Vereb I decided to separate it into two parts. One would be a front garden which is connected to the main road of the village and at the ad­jacent site of it is surrounded by a brick firewall. The other part would be an inner and thus a more personal garden. Walking by the adjoining brick wall a miraculous world opens with ancient trees and a small brook at the end of the lot, and I’ve felt that I must protect this part of the garden from the „outside world” to give more privacy for the future home there.

In my plan the two buildings have got very strict facade facing the street made of horizontally arranged stone coverage and amongst them there is a small wooden pathway symbolizing a gate between the two worlds. The dwelling-house’s western facade is totally opened, it’s full of large windows which can be easily pulled away at summertime thus getting a huge, shiny space connected with the garden.

I decided to make a carpenter’s workroom from the outbuilding. That’s why I lifted the eastern fa­cade of it making a huge window to let the morning sunshine in, and let the woodworker to start the work with the rising sun. That’s how I’ve got a gallery big enough for the fine works. To get to this gallery I planned an ajar staircase pushing hardwood steps between the flat horizontal stones of which the walls are made.

Temporary floating shelters for a wine festival, Eger

R E L A T E D   V I D E O I - concept

R E L A T E D   V I D E O II - visualization

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e d u c a t i o n

2011 -
Architecture MA
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest

2010
Faculdade de Arquitectura
Universidade Téchnica de Lisboa

2008 - 2011
Architecture BA
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest


c o m p e t i t i o n s

2011
Hungarian Design Award 2011, finalist

2011
Interior design competition for the National Theatre of Kudimkar, Russia, 2nd prize
Working with Geon Studio, Budapest

2011
Smart Architecture competition, selected
Participated in the exhibition of the international EFAP conference

2009
Ráday Cultural Street - students’ competition, finalist

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