sporaarchitects

sporaarchitects

Hungary

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PROFILE

Budapest-based sporaarchitects is a multi-disciplinary practice, set up in 2002 and currently hard at work on the city's Metro4 underground line, a major infrastructural project. The four partners are all in their late 30s and early 40s, and have wide-ranging experience in architecture, urbanism and development. Tibor Dékány, Sándor Finta, Ádám Hatvani and Orsolya Vadász are also all graduates from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), and also maintain membership of the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre, a nexus for new ways of thinking in the country. 'At the core of our architecture is the ability to take a fresh look at things through experienced eyes,' they state.

WEEKEND-CITY

This cascading structure is spora's response to shifting perceptions of what it is to be urban. As planners argue as to whether suburban or inner city conditions are the best means of generating life, community and economic vitality, the Weekend-City marches in with a tumble of ideas, a blend of the traditional summer house with an urban site. Designed to counter Budapest's proliferation of courtyard-centric dwellings and meagre apartments, spora suggests an agreeable architectural jumble. 'The project combines the benefits of metropolitan and rural life,' they say, 'it would create a vertical village with criss-crossing terraces and gardens connected to each flat, while the apartments are overrun by plants and everyone would have a small garden to grow fruit and vegetables.'


http://www.sporaarchitects.hu

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