CITY CENTRE, SZIGETHALOM

The settlement in the Csepel Island is one of the Capital’s commuter towns, currently without an administrative centre. The request was to design the preliminary sketches for the buildings to be constructed at the site in the centre, where now a football pitch and other empty spaces can be found. The sketch includes four distinct buildings: the mayor’s office, opening into the main square, a health centre with a separate doctor’s surgery and a pharmacy, a house of culture opening into an internal green space, and a building of commercial premises and services, including a grocery shop on the ground level and offices and workshops to rent by different service providers on the upper storeys. Under the building, there is to be an underground garage park, which provide access to all the establishments on foot, thus preventing people from parking on the surface. The development can be financed from selling the apartments to be erected in the second phase and sold in the market. The L-shaped residential buildings would be oriented to the sunlit internal garden. The residential zone and the zone of the public establishments would be separated by a green stretch, where sports fields and playing grounds are located. The two zones would be connected by a couple of lanes for pedestrians, which continue in the axis of the neighbouring streets. The different space qualities and the varied masses of buildings would result in a unique and harmonious composition, offering a modern but liveable town centre for the young town, suiting its present character and structure, giving identity for the local inhabitants, and, at the same time, marking the centre in the heterogeneous architectural environment with a determined architectural gesture. The entire energy for the buildings would be provided from renewable sources: ground-source heat pumps as well as solar panels and solar collectors on the roof, whereas the collected rainwater can be used for watering the greenery around.

Installation of a town center, Szigethalom 
client: REORG ZRT. 
year of the design: 2008
volume: 20 000 m² 
design phase: CONCEPTUAL DESIGN