ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN COMPETITION – III. PRIZE
The proposed museum is a curved structure that fits into the space along Nagyerdei Boulevard. With its organically shaped extensions and neuron-like pedestrian pathways, the building draws visitors toward its central core, the main entrance hall. The curvature of the building connects the primary access routes, creating a dynamic spatial force in front of the museum, while forming a more sheltered focal point behind it. Accordingly, the public urban park is positioned in front of the building, while the ticketed inner garden is integrated into the forested area behind it. The front plaza is open, transparent, and park-like, while the rear area retains its original character, it is more enclosed, protected and forest-like. An important aspect in the massing of the building was the visual and physical connection between the space in front of the building and the space behind it, and the unobstructed passage between them. The streamlined, twisted roof shape, inspired by or evoking natural forms, ‘floats’ at canopy level, with some enclosed but typically transparent elements below to provide a functional connection with the surroundings. From the south, the roof structure starts as a flat canopy, which rises high towards the centre of the site, creates a frontage to the forest along a breaking edge, and then slowly evolves into a rectangular prism, which emerges from the forest on the other side of the site. KÖZTI’s design won the 3rd prize in the international competition.
Year of design: 2025 Architects: TIMA Zoltán, BORBÉLY András, BORZSÁK Veronika, SZABÓ Máté, TÓTH Balázs, BÁRÁNY Barót Bálint Area: 26 700 m2
