Zigzag Apartment Building in the Suburbs of Budapest

Location: EU, Hungary, 1135 Budapest, Kerekes utca 1/a.

Client: ATREO Research Zrt.

Planning: 2015

Construction: 2016-2021

Scale: ~2000 m2

Architecture: LAB5 architects

Leading designers: Linda Erdélyi, András Dobos, Balázs Korényi, Virág Anna Gáspár

Designers: Ádám Mester, Judit Nyerges, Dávid Páncsics, Zoltán Szegedi, Tamás Tótszabó

Civil engineer: Terraplan ’97 | Balázs Puskás

Mechanical engineer: KLF Energo | Ervin Barta

Electrical engineer: Kelevill | Ferenc Kelemen

Fire expert: András Székács

Photography: Zsolt Batár

 

The site is located in the suburbs of Budapest. The district has an industrial historical background with dwellings originally for working class, now days many small-scale residential developments running.

The plot has an irregular shape. Furthermore, the corner of the future building at the crossroads was expected to be chopped by the local regulations. The goal of the project was to design an apartment building with a rational, perpendicular layout.

 

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