During the design
process we made the following decisions at the urban- and landscape design competition for 420 apartments
social housing complex, Ócsa-Alsópakony architectural competition. We named our
project O2CSA-ECOvillage:
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The new village will be the
living space for 500 families. We treat the new village, as a small-scale
social model, because we believe in the constructive power of the community.
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We create a village scheme, in
which we help with tool of architecture the creation of the communities on
different levels. The bedrock of this scheme is the family.
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In this scheme we defined 4
levels, which can strength the communities:
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family (living on one plot,
which has ideal orientation)
o
micro unit (community of 10-12
families, which has a lower-order, semi public center, open to only the
families, who live there)
o
macro unit (community of 6-8 micro
unit, which has a public center at the middle of the 60-80 housing units)
o
village (community of 7 macro
units, which center is a public square at the middle of the village, which
consists of the auxiliary, service functions)
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We defined the auxiliary, service
functions up to the lack of functions of the villages in the neighborhood. With
the help of this, we aspired to create local working spaces.
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We believe that it is necessary
to create an education system, which teaches the future tenants to the local backyard
gardening and to the agriculture generally.
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To avoid the “ghost city”
effect we created the functional mix in 12/24h differentiations (residential,
agricultural, service and institution, ecology r+d, education, accommodation
and recreation).
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We aspired to fulfill the sustainable standpoints (natural
ventilation, orientation, sunlight and flow technology) at the plans of the
areas and the buildings.
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We tried to make such a big, high quality and well
differentiated green areas, which not only increase the comfort feeling, but
helps with the self-sufficiency of the village.
With our proposal
we achieved special mention at the architectural design competition.