Public Choice Award

For ten years, Beta has been awarding quality architectural initiatives and projects in Romania, Hungary and Serbia. The international jury for each edition is made up of renowned architects, and the awards reflect our determination to promote authors and projects with a beneficial impact on the built environment.

For the first time in this competition, we have introduced the People's Award, through which we aim to improve the connection between architects and the general public, emphasizing the importance of architecture that directly addresses the values and needs of society.

We all live in and use the city and the spaces that architects design, so we want the Beta Awards to recognize the preferences of the general public. The Public Award is our way of bringing quality architecture closer to the general public and promoting those architectural projects that make us proud of the cities we live in. Each person can vote for one project in the categories of Built Space, Interior Space, Public Space, Graduate Projects and Research.

The public vote will be open together with the awards exhibition and will run until the end of the competition, when the project with the most votes will be awarded at the Beta 2024 Awards Gala.

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Non-residential / New

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Lajos Hartvig DLA

Author(s) / Team representatives

Lajos Hartvig DLA

Profession

architect

Collective/office

Bánáti + Hartvig Architects

Co-authors/team members

Lead architect: Lajos Hartvig, Project architect: Judit Zajacz, Architects: Maja Toshikj and Balázs Scheiling, Landscape

External collaborators

Lakort Kft., mdrs2 Kft., BS plan Kft., Artrea Consulting Kft., OPTOMM Mérnöki Iroda Kft., ’95 APSZIS BT.

Project location

Budapest, Hungary

Budget in euros

2000 EUR/m2

Usable area

Brutto area: 393 m2 (with the main building in total: 11.688 m2)

Project start date

September 2022

Construction completion date

November 2023

Client

Deutsche Schule Budapest Foundation

Builder

Lakort Kft.

Website

See Website

Photo credits

Bálint Jaksa

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Text presentation of the author/office in English

At Bánáti + Hartvig Architects design buildings that respect their environment and enhance the quality of their surroundings, respond to developing communities’ aspirations for the future, provide comfortable and healthy living and working spaces, and offer attractive venues for cultural and leisure activities. Spurred by our commitment to sustainable development, in meeting our clients’ needs, we strive to create future-proof, environmentally friendly and likeable buildings. Teamwork that builds on the creativity of all our designers provides the foundation of how our design community works. Collective thinking means that our knowledge, experience and values are not just aggregated but multiplied. Our portfolio ranges from large-scale, complex projects to condominiums and detached houses requiring a personal touch, all designed as the outcome of a professional process to a high architectural quality.

Project description in English

The need for expansion arose at the German School of Budapest. Due to the start of the school year, a rapid response was required. Therefore, the development of an existing container building to a higher quality, with increased capacity, and an architectural character befitting the built and natural environment was envisaged. Surveying the surrounding trees to ensure that they were not threatened by the development was a major consideration in the design. Thus, the contour of the terrace follows the position of the trees. How did creating the building become sustainable? The columns of the previous container building were used in the new structure, and its other elements were reused elsewhere. As only a minimal amount of concrete was needed for the construction, CO2 emissions were drastically reduced. The designers calculated that the amount of CO2 emitted by constructing a building with the same features out of reinforced concrete would have taken 101 trees 100 years to offset.

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