Nowadays, everyone knows how to build a family house. Due to their lack of life experience, most builders do not know how a family house works. People show up at the architect's house with a stack of family newspapers and poke at a picture here and there. Of course, each photo was taken of a different house, so if you were to make a plan from it, the end result would be a mixture. There are trend forms and colors, and the location doesn't matter. If I have money, I build what I want. This state prevailed. The financial world educates people alike. They dress, behave, think the same and have the same amount of income. Family house planning has already gone beyond the purely architectural problem. Centuries-old value system and tradition must be preserved and passed on.
The longest and most important part is making the sketch plan. You have to try to furnish the rooms, you have to imagine the everyday life.
The second step is the creation of authorization plans. The custom is still that the majority of family houses are built without construction plans based on the permit plan and the contractor's improvisation. This can be seen in the buildings. I will only undertake the work if we are also commissioned to prepare the construction plans. This is the guarantee that the house will be built according to the idea in every detail.
Lőrinc Csernyus
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Project description in English
The location is in the garden city of Budapest's 14th district, at the intersection of the low-traffic Columbus and Szabó Lőrinc streets. The plot is bordered by institutions and residential buildings.
The original house was built in 1961 as the Party Headquarters with a workers guardhouse. 3 crowds surrounded in a circle at that time with an ornamental courtyard with a statue in the middle.
In 1992, the Szent István Vocational High School of Music took over the operation of the building, at which time the building underwent minor remodeling, demolition and a significant courtyard extension.
During the assessment of the building, it was established that the building is currently in a neglected and dilapidated condition, and is only suitable for limited use due to the high operating costs and summer heat. The total number of students is 180-200, and the lecture halls can also host 200 visitors to the events on occasion.
During the conversion, the addition of a lightweight attic-like structure in the flat-roofed part of the street and the addition of an inner courtyard create new spaces for the users, and the roof garden adds a new quality of life to everyday life. In addition to the complete thermal insulation and energy modernization of the building, the coverings, windows, sanitary facilities and electrical network will also be renewed. A solar panel supports the new systems on the south-west roof under the glass skylight.
Aluminum curtain wall systems are integrated between the heavy building blocks. The sliding rail systems appear on the main facade as additional image-forming elements due to the shading. A significant amount of sheet metal is installed on the roof surfaces and to cover the wooden structures, but due to the height of the building and the narrowness of the street, the retracted cornice tries to form a transition between the flat-roofed office buildings and the high-roofed villas and warehouse buildings.
The transformation preserves the basic mass of the building block, but it is supplemented at several points, thus updating its street appearance. In addition to the re-paving of surfaces identical to the original brick paving, new surfaces will also be added to the courtyard area. The visible wooden structure will be a defining element as a supporting structure and in some cases also in additional facade covering parts.
