facade cladding as car bodywork
It is a real postmodern parking garage on Baross Street.
Original designer: György Venéczi, 1995.
The façade was redesigned by us in 2019.
Our aims were:
_make the building better reflect its function as a parking house
_use higher-quality materials than were available in the 1990s
_integrate into the downtown urban fabric (lines of the cornices, proportions, scales)
_eliminate the postmodern office-building glass cube, which only makes sense in plan.
We had 2 design options.
01_02_03_View from Baross Street
01_The lines of the car bodies define the dynamics of the facade.
The alternating glass–grid–cladding pattern forms the design.
02_Hole architecture.
03_The original building
04_05_06_View from the Wenckheim Palace (Fővárosi Szabó Ervin Library)
07_facade cladding as car bodywork
08_form associations of air vents, radiator grille, and windshield
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