#smarthouse

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