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Project • By Archikon Architects • Primary Schools
Gyöngyszem Kindergarten
Designed by Budapest-based Archikon Architects, Gyöngyszem Kindergarten is Hungary’s first smart kindergarten, transformed from a panel building with sustainable solutions.
Balázs Danyi
From single-storey prefab to smart kindergarten
Built in the late 1970s, the ten-storey panel residential buildings of the Gyöngyösi Street housing estate in Budapest’s XIII District surround a tree-lined green promenade. These prefabricated “panel houses” (panelház in Hungarian) were mass-produced concrete apartment blocks built across eastern and central Europe from the 1960s until the 1980s. Along the promenade are a number of small retail buildings, a nursery, a kindergarten, and a schoo... More
Project • By Archikon Architects • Primary Schools
Children's Grove on the hill
Located in the southern part of Újbuda hills, between the prefabricated apartment blocks from the socialist era and a modern housing area of real estate developers, Madárhegy has been populated mainly with small garden apartment buildings in the last ten years. Many of the new residents are families with children, so there was a significant demand for children's facilities. Recognising this, the municipality has planned a development including a nursery, kindergarten, a paediatric clinic and a public playground. The architects and landscape architects wanted the design to evoke the original grove feel of the site. Thus the "children's grove" was born.
Balázs Danyi
The site is divided into functional courtyards by... More