Task:
Design a Contemporary Exhibition Place & Artist Studio and it's related public spaces required
ÜVEGHÁZ = Glasshouse
Location: 1054 Budapest, Vadász utca 29.
Archive original photo & Nowadays out of character building photos
My aim:
- Is to entirely restore the facade
- And it's glass structural elements as close to the original as possible
- I try to approach the innovative mindset of Kozma & the Weiss family
Focusing on the most improver & conscious products of our current age
as they did it in theirs.
- To express contemporary consciousness
I would introduce AUReus solar energy harvester, vegetal based, electricity producing system on the glass surfaces where it is permitting. This technology is 10 times more effective than regular solar panels and could ideally work with indirect light. Making it very ideal in cities and vertical surfaces. See suggestions below:
Eco Conscious, energy generating, solar system on glass surfaces
Tasks:
- Design a Exhibition Space & Artist's Studio and Accomodation : as Task 1
- Provide Free access to every site for disabled according to EU & local regulations
- Create a multifunctional area for Social events & Cafe, Catering
- Choose a hungarian contemporary artist to the exhibition place
- Make temporary Exhibition Design supporting the artist's works the most
- Wasnt: to create memory room, related to historical events at this location
(my note: I would place it on the upper two floors to represent it in more details with dignity)
+ On the top of the requirements I created a Gift Shop by the Entrance / Exit
+ Hiding in the Glasshouse:
I did make certain indications to provide references to the past though
Music inspiration (2:17mins)
Moodboards
Bauhaus 'style' in posters / Bauhaus & related contemporary furnitures
Task 2: Interior style themes to chose & blend from: Pop art or 70's brutalism & Superstudio
Task 3:
Introducing the artist:
Erik Mátrai 's artworks will be exhibited at the reopening of the gallery
http://www.erikmatrai.com/
My collage from the artist and his works / moods for the interior
The (re)planning only covers the ground floor area
colour coded functions
idea +
To the right(pink) from the entrance:
opening up the stairwell's walled off area (light brown) on the sides provides acces through the Gift Shop & reception (light green) towards the exhibition space (light blue) without damaging heritage stairs (light brown).
What stays? What comes?
- SeaStone, Plasticiet & CargoCollective sustainable coverings are used on the entire flooring and in wet areas on walls instead of tiles
- Glass stairwells are restored and untouched in style & must be protected
- All remaining heritage & structural elements of the building are preserved
- On the coloured floorplan, the former garage & service area turned into a
temporary Exhibiton Space / as you can see at bottom & right side below
Bauhaus ballet visual mood inspiration
by Oscar Schlemmer (1:05mins)
playful geometric objects / bold colours / rare compositions / amazing shapes
References to the past:
Wall tile's design at the reception imply to fragility of former plaque
Felt pen coloured perspectivical drawing
Reception & Gift shop
looking towards the exhibition rooms
Task 4:
Reception desk & products displays 3D view = Custom furniture design
Task 5:
References to the past:
" C U " Café Bar & Catering
The bar stools are crediting to the light metal, tubular furniture design of Marcel Breuer. Who at the formation of the Bauhaus, took the idea of bent, canteliver chairs from a bicycle's frame.
His iconic pieces are directly not shown, but all later inspirations are all around.
idea+
My custom graphic design for " C U " Café & Bar menus
Naming of the Café and even the brand name of the espresso machine is choosen to relate to the building's name & it's former products. Also a play on letters & meanings in english.
References to the past:
Sound insulating Olaf B. 's 'black & white people' wall carpet is selected to symbolize how people were hiding
in the GLASSHOUSE as a hint to history.
(The then empty building of the GLASSHOUSE in 1944 became the Department of Foreign Interest for Emmigration of the Swiss Consulate in the occupied Hungary. Here Carl Lutz as Vice Consul opened up the doors for persecuted Jewish people. Where from the officially permitted 7000.- he issued individual & group/family passports up to 62.000.- people to escape from the nazis, saving their life! The entire building - as one of the 76 official safe houses in Budapest- was also a temporary shelter for hopeful, innocent people, hiding from the authoritarian arbitrary forces. From the 26th June, 1944 and later throughout an opened hole in the wall to the adjacent Headquarters of the Hungarian Football League about 2-3000 people were hiding here. After the war, Lutz was initially reprimanded for having gone too far in his efforts, but just much later was vindicated and honored by the Swiss government in 1957.)
Harush Shlomo's armchair is adaptive to a persons bodyshape.
For it's reflective surface and the other furnitures are see through or made partially by glass are specially curated
Task 6:
Design accessible Public place & Restrooms for Disabled People according to regulations
Disabled bathroom / Man's bathroom moods & sections, floorplans
Woman's bathroom
Throne ICONE brand of toilets were selected for it's special design of it's glass water tank
Original floorplans
Woman's bathromms 3D visuals & plans
idea +
Health & Hygiene
Mercor Dunamenti FN1 Nano transparent surface treatment /
with particles that are bactericidal & virus resistant / Activated by light
View from the "C U" Cafe towards the Gift Shop
'C U' Cafe Bar & Catering area
Felt pen coloured perspectivical drawing
idea +
Sustainability
Custom designed acoustic panel: painted crumpled aluminum foil & felt
+ molten & recycled face masks made stackable stools
idea +
Custom pattern design: at the Artist's Studio apartment see bottom right corner (MKK14)
outline for a 100% whool floor rug / aquarelle & tempera on A2 paper
Contemporary relevances
Playful structures, colours & elements / New bauhaus
Dark & light / See through / Matte & glossy finish / Creating drama
Erik Mátrai' s exhibition poster design as I imagined
for the collections of :
Ellipses / Hidden dimensions
for the newly opening of the gallery
Floorplan excerpt of the exhibition rooms
especially for the selected art pieces
Exhibited Art works & their situations
'Turul' 'Parting of the Red sea' / 'Laser glory'
CCTV camera & its shades Video installation / Lights installation
http://www.erikmatrai.com/works/turul http://www.erikmatrai.com/works/the-parting-of-the-red-sea
http://www.erikmatrai.com/works/laser-glory
Understanding : Parting of the Red sea (2:35mins)
Understanding : Ellipses (1:29mins)
'Ellipses' paintings
Challange:
How to give for the art pieces - that carry figuratively strong messages - an extra dimension
at this particular area, at Üvegház ?
idea+
- I created thin pillars to hold art & permit to see beyond them.
- Oval shaped tilted mirror & reflective flooring was designed to enhace visitors
experience
- Feeling of space and supporting Erik Mátrai's art work in all physical
perspectives & dimensions integrating them to ÜVEGHÁZ
Understanding : Porticus (1:50mins)
idea +
'Porticus' art pieces in situ
I placed mirrors on the wall as seen, to give infinite dimension to enlarge space. Enhancing visitors experience of the dark / light installation.
http://www.erikmatrai.com/works/porticus-3-6-sziget-festival
http://www.erikmatrai.com/works/porticus-3-1-pecs
Heritage self-supporting glass stairwell / original enterior details
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Previous concepts & arrangements
Ron Arad's contemporary furnishing & Kozma's pavilion design
Former alternative floorplan
- with 2 sections of exhibition spaces
- cafe close to the inner courtyard for optional extention to the open air garden area
- bigger artist's accomodation
- integrated adjacent building parts for kitchen / bathrooms
3D visual montage of furnishing artist's accomodation
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End of the World / Gloomy Sunday by Rezső Seress (R. Spitzer)
then revised Pál Kalmár / sung by Billie Holiday too
Music inspiration as internationally known, from the tragic past
The original floorplans of ÜVEGHÁZ
About it's Architect:
The building was designed by Lajos Kozma (L. Fuchs) and was built in 1934. Who as a young scholar was learning how to paint with Henri Matisse in Paris.
From interior & graphic design succesess, after art deco he turned towards avantguard / bauhaus. He designed villas, apartment blocks, a cinema and exhibition pavilions.
With fresh, clean and then the most contemporary way in 'bauhaus style'.
About the owner & the building:
- Üvegház was created for Gyula Weiss a wholesaler of architectural glass products.
According to the architects vision:
- All kinds of purchasable glass items were built in the facade & used inside the building as well.
- Merging the new style with newly available modern materials.
- All definitively stayed out well from the eclectic streets of Budapest.
- Representing the progress of that age determinative up to today.
VR introduction of the original building (3:24mins)
The memory of victims will live on...
