Adam Hatvani
Biography
ABOUT
Adam Hatvani, architect and graphic, graduated from the University of Technology and Economy Budapest in 1995, and from the Hungarian University of fine Arts in 2000. After having different work experiences in several architecture studios, since 2002 he’s been a partner and leader designer of sporaarchitects, sporaarchitects is a Budapest based office – architects, designers, and urban thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, ecological urbanism and sustainability.The works of sporaarchitects have been published in the international and the Hungarian media. Besides many other architectural projects and researches he has been working on the architectural design of two metro stations next to the Danube within the Metro4 constructions in Budapest, being the top infrastructural project in Hungary.
Since 2005 he’s been co-founder and board member of the KÉK – Hungarian Contemporary
Architecture Centre, the first hungarian, internationally respected and acclaimed architectural institute. In 2014 he was a guest professor on IUAV university Venice.
In addition to the design of several larger residential buildings and public buildings, today he is mainly involved in large infrastructure projects as a leading designer, such as the extension of the H6-H7 Hév, the reconstruction of the M3 metro line, and the design of the Népliget station of the Déli körvarsút. The modern, sustainable, livable XXI. about the 19th century city and summarized his thoughts in the Budapest South City Gate Master Plan prepared and presented in 2020 together with Snohetta.
He publishes regularly in the written and online media, and is a regular participant and speaker at Hungarian and international contemporary architecture conferences and exhibitions, both at home and abroad.
AWARDS
- Budapest Nívódíj, RIBA International Awards, BOTY Archdaily
PROJECTS TO BE PRESENTED DURING THE EVENT
Project #1: Erkel
Start year: 16.08.2016
The massing of the building on Erkel Street follows the odd hexagonal shape of the toothcutter’s courtyard, the logic of the contemporary inner-city plot division, and the challenge was to define a livable environment, to let light into the courtyard and the neighbour’s inner courtyard, and to cover the firewalls. The stone cladding on the street façade of the house is engraved with the shadows of the façade of the romantic building that once stood there, using a shading technique familiar from the architect’s plans. The building continues the enclosed street frontage. The building forms a U-shape facing west, with the north and south elevations at 9 storeys high, and the west elevation towards the neighbouring development at 4 storeys high. The street wing covers the firewall of the neighbouring buildings on the west side, on the north-east side it covers the firewall of the neighbouring building on one side, a courtyard wing of fs +3 storey high is constructed towards the interior of the site.
Project #2: Ráday
Start year: 10.12.2018
The plot of land at 57 Ráday u., crossing to Lónyay utca, was an empty plot of land in the Inner Ferencváros. It was the only vacant lot in the block, with a unique, elongated pentagonal shape, with a firewall about 25 m high from the south and 12 m high from the north, with two street fronts, one facing Ráday and the other Lónyay Street. The number of possible buildings is significantly reduced by the complex spatial situation, the size of the plot, its orientation, the height and position of the surrounding firewalls. A framed building, or some variation of it, would result in an extremely narrow courtyard with apartments facing each other, many of which would face north. The development envisages a wing facing Ráday and Lónyay Streets, or a central wing. The wings would be accessed from a central staircase via open walkways. The wings create two internal courtyards, which are deformed towards the right orientation and sunlight. The unfavourable north side is thus not occupied, the staircase can go up to the highest level without change, and the wings can be stairclimbed back down by means of stairways on the upper levels, this is necessary because of the difference in height between the boundary blocks.
Project #3: M3 reconstruction-3 stations
Start year: 10.09.2020
Metro Three’s interior design was a design icon of the ’70s and ’80s, before the concept itself even existed. Contemporary, pop, moody, futuristic solutions, colours, shapes, surfaces and furnishings of its time have since been swept away by the permanent retro wave. The technical iron discipline of wall-to-wall reconstruction condemns these details to total destruction. What can be done? Rebuilding is no longer an option, the technology and the will to do so no longer exist. The logic of the demolition process suggests another way. Removing the slatted ceilings, wall and column coverings reveals the true face of the metro, the real structures that until now have only been seen in tunnels and factory spaces: the tunnels, the steel tubing, the steel sheet insulation, the shotcrete, the slotted wall, the Mannesmann cannon barrel. What comes back, reinterprets, alludes, amplifies.