Detail of the project ed. 2020

4PLUSZ – PARISH CHURCH OF THE CELES­TIAL QUEEN

Design­er Zoltan Berzsak
Loca­tion Szent István square 21. 1041 Budapest, Hungary
Design Team

Lead­ing archi­tect: Zoltán BERZSÁK
Archi­tects: Katal­in KONY­HA, Andrea STANISEWSZ­KI, Noe­mi SZIKSZAI
Year 2014
Pho­to credits

All pho­tos made by Tamás Albertszki

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Project descrip­tion

The Parish Church of Celes­tial Queen moved into an eclec­tic build­ing that for­mer­ly were a Music School, and became a Catholic home with a mod­ern invit­ing and rev­er­ent space. The plan was to restore the orig­i­nal con­di­tion of the buld­ing accord­ing to old pho­tos and to enclose the cir­cu­la­tion sys­tem with a new, mod­ern build­ing wing. The gable-roofed new wing involves the mul­ti­func­tion­al social spaces. As the new wing embod­ies the ambi­tion of the Catholic Church to open up for the wider pub­lic, this con­fig­u­ra­tion of turn­ing the struc­tures inward sep­a­rates two yards of dif­fer­ent char­ac­ters. Both yard becomes elemet­al part of the build­ing. The ground-floor recep­tion area con­nects the peace­ful front and the built-around back yard by a wide-span bridg­ing both visu­al­ly and phys­i­cal­ly. The large expans­es of glass expos­es events tak­ing place around the old tree stand­ing in the cen­tre of the gar­den so that they are vis­i­ble even from the foy­er. Com­mu­ni­ca­tion between the old and the new is facil­i­tat­ed by under­stand­ing and fol­low­ing the log­ic of the exist­ing house.

Illus­tra­tive project report
Down­load report

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Tech­ni­cal drawings

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