Family house in Budapest

The building includes a family flat and an office in three floors. At the ground floor can be found the entrance and one room of the flat and the entrance of the office. The first floor is taken up by the flat. At the -1 level can be found the storage of the flat and the garage for three cars. Creating the concept our main starting point was to make a rationally planned, functional building in high architectural quality. We aimed to use innovative, unique solutions. The place had a key role during the design. The inspiring, special site and landscape, the emerging rock on the neighbouring site had a significant impression on the architecture of the building. The south-eastern edge of the site is 10 meters higher than the ground floor's level. To have five elevations of a building here is especially true for the roof. The rock next to it and the mine nearby let us associate to a pile of stone as the image of the building, but in an abstract way. We opened the façades with huge glass surfaces to make it well liveable. We used the golden section by the definition of the building's proportions. The building is both solid and dynamic. The dynamism of the building is strengthened by the rising site, the off-axis setting of the openings on the ground floor and first floor façades, the layout of the balcony slab and the asymmetrical design of the roof. Due to the level difference between the street and the site the garage entrance opens to the level of the -1 floor. Garden stairs lead up to the ground level from the site entrance. The ground floor entrance is in connection with the garden at the north and west. The generous openings of the façade opens up the interior space of the flat to to the garden. The wooden terrace of the first floor creates a direct connection to the green. Under construction Architects: SAGRA Architects Ltd. Lead Architect: Gábor Sajtos Architecture collaboration: Péter Virág, András Páll www.sagra.hu