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Dürer Park Office Buildings
Dürer Park Office Buildings
Budapest, Hungary
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Dürer Park Office Buildings
Budapest, Hungary
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2025
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
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Project by LISSONI CASAL RIBEIRO / Masterplan, architecture, landscape design concept
MASTER PLAN
Situated next to Budapest’s Liget Park, one the Europe’s largest urban parks, the project reimagines an area comprising disused buildings – an office tower and a monastery dating from the early 20th century that was later converted into an elementary school – sited amid a landscape of ancient and majestic trees.
On the opposite side of the lot, Art Deco villas with their gardens and flowing decorations confer an elegant and richly layered residential character.
The masterplan translates this heritage into a new, mixed-use urban fabric where office and residential buildings are immersed in the city park. Conservation of the existing trees, considered as structural elements in the project, guided the placing of the new volumes and the definition of their proportions.
Office Building 1 was positioned on the footprint of the old tower, so minimizing the use of the land, while Office Building 2 arises from the carefully calculated extension of the former monastery/school, respecting its history and enriching it with a new architectural language.
This transformation has happened in the rapidly evolving cultural context of Liget Park, now enhanced by interventions of international repute such as the House of Music by Sou Fujimoto and the future New National Gallery by SANAA, and emerging as a new European museum complex. Dürer Park forms part of this scenario as an urban extension of the park, defining a contemporary frontage that brings together history, nature and architecture.
OFFICE BUILDING 1
Office Building 1 is conceived as a large horizontal volume organized around three equidistant vertical nuclei. The geometric matrix is intentionally clean and rational and becomes the initial reference for a more refined volumetric composition. The fully exposed floor slabs introduce a series of horizontal and vertical shifts that generate a controlled fragmentation of the building mass. This movement of the floors gives rise to a sequence of setbacks, projections and double-height volumes, modulating the perception of the buildings and conferring dynamic depth. The glazed surfaces open towards Liget Park, while the staggered compositions reduce the impact of the scale and generate an organic and almost natural visual rhythm.
The building is conceived as a transparent structure, designed to maximize views and to connect the interior spaces with the surrounding landscape. The building envelope is clad with a grid of vertical slats that regulate the light, moderating the sunlight and conferring an elegant and measured identity to the façade. The color palette – dark metals, glass in carefully calibrated hues and rich tones – expresses an elegance that is consonant with the aesthetic of Lissoni Casal Ribeiro that is characterized by precise proportions, essential geometries and materic harmony.
The result is a building that combines strength and lightness, a volume rooted to the ground but which dialogues with the sky, a new urban landmark along the l’Ajtósi Dürer sor that establishes a direct relation to the landscape of the Városliget.
OFFICE BUILDING 2
Office Building 2 originates from an early twentieth century monastery that was subsequently converted to an elementary school. An “L” section of the historic fabric was renovated and restored to its original clarity by virtue of a mineral finish that enhances the wall patterning and the institutional character. Alongside, a new contemporary wing defined by glazed surfaces and metal profiles was developed, introducing a calculated contrast between historical significance and architectural lightness.
The heart of the complex is an atrium of 700 square meters that establishes a direct relationship between the different histories of the two buildings. The renovated internal façade dialogues with the suspended levels of the new intervention, while natural light floods the space to create a luminous and open atmosphere. The former chapel has been renovated with careful attention to the historic context, restoring the brick arches, decorative fragments and period glazing, transforming it into an events space that seamlessly combines memory and contemporaneity.
The colors and materials of the extension were studied to delicately integrate with the historic structure. The surfaces, tones and construction details establish a visual continuity that preserves the original character of the building without forgoing a precise and contemporary architectural presence. The ensemble establishes a coherent entity, capable of valorizing the history of the site while at the same time becoming part of the new urban identity of Dürer Park.
Design team:
Piero Lissoni with Miguel Casal Ribeiro, Joao Silva
David Pouliot, Fulvio Capsoni, Francesco Schiavariello
MASTER PLAN
Situated next to Budapest’s Liget Park, one the Europe’s largest urban parks, the project reimagines an area comprising disused buildings – an office tower and a monastery dating from the early 20th century that was later converted into an elementary school – sited amid a landscape of ancient and majestic trees.
On the opposite side of the lot, Art Deco villas with their gardens and flowing decorations confer an elegant and richly layered residential character.
The masterplan translates this heritage into a new, mixed-use urban fabric where office and residential buildings are immersed in the city park. Conservation of the existing trees, considered as structural elements in the project, guided the placing of the new volumes and the definition of their proportions.
Office Building 1 was positioned on the footprint of the old tower, so minimizing the use of the land, while Office Building 2 arises from the carefully calculated extension of the former monastery/school, respecting its history and enriching it with a new architectural language.
This transformation has happened in the rapidly evolving cultural context of Liget Park, now enhanced by interventions of international repute such as the House of Music by Sou Fujimoto and the future New National Gallery by SANAA, and emerging as a new European museum complex. Dürer Park forms part of this scenario as an urban extension of the park, defining a contemporary frontage that brings together history, nature and architecture.
OFFICE BUILDING 1
Office Building 1 is conceived as a large horizontal volume organized around three equidistant vertical nuclei. The geometric matrix is intentionally clean and rational and becomes the initial reference for a more refined volumetric composition. The fully exposed floor slabs introduce a series of horizontal and vertical shifts that generate a controlled fragmentation of the building mass. This movement of the floors gives rise to a sequence of setbacks, projections and double-height volumes, modulating the perception of the buildings and conferring dynamic depth. The glazed surfaces open towards Liget Park, while the staggered compositions reduce the impact of the scale and generate an organic and almost natural visual rhythm.
The building is conceived as a transparent structure, designed to maximize views and to connect the interior spaces with the surrounding landscape. The building envelope is clad with a grid of vertical slats that regulate the light, moderating the sunlight and conferring an elegant and measured identity to the façade. The color palette – dark metals, glass in carefully calibrated hues and rich tones – expresses an elegance that is consonant with the aesthetic of Lissoni Casal Ribeiro that is characterized by precise proportions, essential geometries and materic harmony.
The result is a building that combines strength and lightness, a volume rooted to the ground but which dialogues with the sky, a new urban landmark along the l’Ajtósi Dürer sor that establishes a direct relation to the landscape of the Városliget.
OFFICE BUILDING 2
Office Building 2 originates from an early twentieth century monastery that was subsequently converted to an elementary school. An “L” section of the historic fabric was renovated and restored to its original clarity by virtue of a mineral finish that enhances the wall patterning and the institutional character. Alongside, a new contemporary wing defined by glazed surfaces and metal profiles was developed, introducing a calculated contrast between historical significance and architectural lightness.
The heart of the complex is an atrium of 700 square meters that establishes a direct relationship between the different histories of the two buildings. The renovated internal façade dialogues with the suspended levels of the new intervention, while natural light floods the space to create a luminous and open atmosphere. The former chapel has been renovated with careful attention to the historic context, restoring the brick arches, decorative fragments and period glazing, transforming it into an events space that seamlessly combines memory and contemporaneity.
The colors and materials of the extension were studied to delicately integrate with the historic structure. The surfaces, tones and construction details establish a visual continuity that preserves the original character of the building without forgoing a precise and contemporary architectural presence. The ensemble establishes a coherent entity, capable of valorizing the history of the site while at the same time becoming part of the new urban identity of Dürer Park.
Design team:
Piero Lissoni with Miguel Casal Ribeiro, Joao Silva
David Pouliot, Fulvio Capsoni, Francesco Schiavariello
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