Városliget is historically the first public park in the world and Budapest’s green lung. Through the ages, solid, institutional buildings have been mixed with follies built for fairs, contributing the the park’s identity, between leisure and culture.
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The city of Budapest launched a competition in 2014 for the design of four new museums to add to the park’s cultural dynamism, among which the House of Hungarian Music, ultimately won by Sou Fujimoto.
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Our proposal fits with the place’s hybrid tradition, referencing both the Hungarian folk legacy and the park’s follies’ architecture. Built among an existing grove of trees, the round building takes from the surrounding trees materiality and proportions. Its mass, raised behind the leaves by a forest of columns, is subtly visible while the trees have leaves, only to reveal itself in the winter.
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The House of Hungarian Music is accessed from its free under-face, via spiral grand stairs linking all levels. The first floor welcomes temporary and permanent exhibitions, arranged as a ring around a central atrium. The second floor hosts concert and conference halls, a library and the museum’s administrative spaces. The grand stair then brings the visitors to the fully-public roof, where a canopy-high garden allows to overview Városliget park’s panorama while attending a concert or enjoying a coffee.
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Like a folly, the museum has a limited life-span : built in local timber of simple construction, it will be demounted at the end of the museum’s life and its constructive elements will be re-used, leaving the site pristine.
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© CALMA. Published on January 26, 2015.
© CALMA. Published on January 26, 2015.
© CALMA. Published on January 26, 2015.
© CALMA. Published on January 26, 2015.