PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name Phone
Born
Luk ácsi, Nóra 07927 453 388
nora.luk acsi@gmail.com
14.02.1988 Budapest
EDUCATION
2006-2013
2010-2011
2000-2006
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Budapest Universit y of Technology and Economics (BUTE)
Facult y of Architecture - Master ’s Degree - Architec ture (MArch)
Universitá degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (UNINA)
Facoltá di Architettura - Erasmus exchange
Ber zsenyi Dániel Gimnázium (Specialist School) - Mathematics Class
Hungarian Native English Professional working pro ciency
Italian Fluent, limited working pro ciency
Spanish, German Elementary
SOFTWARE SKILLS
Graphisoft, ArchiCAD (Artlantis, Twinmotion) - professional Autodesk, AutoCad, Revit, Cinema4D - basics
Adobe Creative Suite (Ps, Ai, Id) - professional
SUCCESSFUL COMPETITIONS
2019 Visegrad Countries’ House Exhibiton - Selected (with marp)
2017 New Budapest Velodrom, open project competition - III. Prize (with marp) “Green Town” and New Market in Sásd i- dea competition - I. Prize (with marp)
2015 New Markethall in Pécs, open project competition - Honourable Mention New Town Hall in Törökbálint, open project competition - II. Prize (with SAGRA)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020 -2021 Lab5 - architect design development, concept, permission and execution plans, competitions, BIM
2015-2020 marp - architect design development, concept, permission and execution plans, competitions
2017- member of the Chamber of Hungarian Architects (MÉK )
2014 Group Dyer - architect design development, retail/commercial concept and detail plan, furniture concept
2014 Glocalstudio - architect design development, concept plans, interior execution plans
2014, 2015 SAGRA Architects - junior architect design development, concept, permission and execution plans, competitions
2011-2013 Odooproject - independent student project of Solar Decathlon Europe (SDE) PR journalist, press, illustration
2014 VH Stúdió - intern, junior architect concept, permission and execution plans, competitions
2009 Building workshop, Perbál - volunteer work for the Halfway house for mentally disabled children
1 Hexagonal truss frames supporting the triangular roof
2. Steel slabs for circulation (for tar tank inspection)
3. Steel spiral staircase -main circulation
4. Prominent steel spiral staircase in the Watertower
5. Sedimentation pools
1 Tower: spiral staircase - vertical space and dome perceptible
2. Tower slabs with elliptical openings - transparency
3. Tower: vertical space and the dome are detached, ‘floating workshop’, reminiscent of the former tar tanks
4. Former watertower: lookout point
5. Outhouses (former pump houses): office, café
6..Basement: utility, storage, passageway to the lookout
For my thesis project I chose to revitalize the building complex of watertower and tartowers located on the site of the former Óbuda Gasworks. I claim that long-term sustainable rehabilition is only feasable with a deliberate supporting institution or business. The search for a willing and fitting new ‘habitant’ was part of my project.The new function: Museum of Technology, with the institutional background of the Technological Studies‘ Library: a collection of significant, original and regional technological artefacts with no exhibition space. It was - and still to this day- closed to the public.
The aim of the proposed concept is on one hand to host an exhibition space reflecting the diversity of today’s technologicalscientific museums adapting to the pre-existing conditions; on the other hand revitalizing the existing building complex partly by renovation and partly by reconstructing the original design of certain elements - as the building itself is an ‘exhibition object’.
1 Watertower: Lookout 2 Tar towers: Exhibition space 3 Later addition demolished 4 Meter house: Reasearch Library
‘This isolated icon is like a bored, vegetarian lion. What will happen to her directly ignites or ruins the invigoration of the entire Gasworks.’
Tamás Dévényi
The Solar Decathlon Europe (SDE) is an international student-based competition that challenges collegiate teams to design, build and operate highly efficient and innovative buildings powered by renewable energy. The winner of the Competition is the team able to score the most points in 10 contests - such as design, energy efficiency, innovation, engineering, communication etc. First from our region student of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics submitted a successful tender to compete in the Solar Decathlon Europe 2012.
We designed, trasported and re-built an overall innovative house, called Odooproject. I was part of the project as a member of the communications’ team. At the end of the competition we qualified 6th place out of 20 and achieved three special awards. In 2012 the Odooproject was awarded the national Prima Primissima Junior award in two categories (Architecture, Sustainabality).
→ www.odooproject.com
sound installationmultitouch desk
vertical stone display: ‘lapidarium’
5-sided replicas of stone sculptures
installation of frescoes
reconstruction of an arch of the abbey
3D printed models research small artefacts place for group presentation
Plan, top view Longitudinal section
Entrance watercolor display
Exit holograms
painting-animation
archeological finds
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1 Ruins of the Abbey, Lookout tower 2 Visitor Center 3 Exhibition space
The main goal of the permanent exhibition defined for the new Visitor Centre in Somogyvár is to portray a complex picture of the former Benedictine abbey and the figure of St. Ladislaus: two emerging themes to supporting each other.
The slogans of the curatorial concept are transparency, abstraction. The involvement of the visitors happens through contemporary tools (VR, hologram, 3D printing), which function is not only to display but to form spatial partitions to guide the visitors.Our goal is the exhibit the artefacts in an unusual, ambitious manner.
Complete installation design, furniture design → epiteszforum
Exhibition elements: iinteractive painting animation, illuminated displays, sound installation with NFC cards, adaptable wall display for holograms and finds
Saint Ladislaus Memorial Visitor Centre designer Nóra Lukácsi Nóra, Ádám Tubákos Somogyvár, 2014- 2015 curator Forster Center, replytoall exhibition concept and execution plans, built architect M studio
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The market is much more than a place for barter or shopping, the market has an important role in building a local community.
The functional layout of the market hall is clean and transparent: it opens towards the community space. Here meets the urban the rural, the city life the local produce farms, the traditional the new. This symbolic encounter appears in the architectural expression. The mass and interior of the building evoke a traditional market hall, subtly referring to traditional farm buildings, but with contemporary architectural form: the high-roof building mass gradually ruptures, rises and opens organically.
The intense visual connection between the stories and the designated traffic zones surrounding the market reinforces the lively, pulsating atmosphere.
The concept defines not only the shaping and placement of new buildings but also the integrative use of the site / landscape and access to existing built elements. The goal is not self-serving aesthetics, but a forward-thinking sustainable design that starts from within andworks with smart solutions - as the comeptition asks.
The “Promenade” that connects the various sights of the campus is a varied spacial structure of communication that also provides a covered passage between buildings, thus eliminating the isolation disadvantage of a campus purely built on ‘pavilions in a park’ theme.
The presence of natural light from unexpected places is an attractive element of MOME’s infrastructure.
Workshops A+ B G
↑ Main entrance ♥ MOME Heart ↑ ↑
MOME Promenade T Knowledge Hub ♥ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ A
It’s difficult to predict the spatial needs of the future, yet in this case a flexible layout is provided by the unusual concept of the structure. A few slanted pillars of bigger dimensions and the lift cores support the vertical loads. Horizontal loads are borne by a reinforced concrete beam grid. This grid is a post-tensioned slab structure: applying active force into the structure the calculated torque is reduced.
With this aforementioned design of the load-bearing structure, the floors don’t have a traditional pillar layout. Without rigid structural division the spaces are flexible and adaptable for future rearrangements.
Studio and Media rooms A Building A W ST K ↑ ↑
Due to their dimension, the load-bearing elements are characterstic to their space not only in the interior but also, they are percieved from the outside through the glazed campus pavilions - making them a prominent pattern of the façades.
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Villa W ST G B
Extension B Building B A+ A K
Site - axonometric view Plan - main floor Longitudinal section, street view
fitting to theurban fabric
heat-storage mass fa ç ade / double skin facadet
fitting to the site, plot
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◦ ◦ ◦ ♥ A T B ♥ A T B
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) architect Nóra Lukácsi, Viola Polácsek, Dávid Szabó Budapest, Hűvösvölgy, 2016 consultant lapidarium
lead architect Márton Dévényi, Pál Gyürki-Kiss
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3 Elementary School
4 Sports Hall
In a direct and a broader sense, this building nests in heritage site of urban fabric - its character and goes beyond the function of a regular sports hall demanding it to be a public building of a high standard.
Its design is nourished and inspired by the locality and heritage of the Royal Castle of Gödöllő and its service buildings: vaulted slabs, terrazzo flooring, glazed facade divisions brings to mind the same of the former orangeries. The ‘light’ steel structure covering the gyms and the design of the pre-cast colored concrete cladding evokes the sophistication and durability of traditional stone plinths in our modern interpretation.
As one of the endpoints of the entire Metro 4 project of Budapest, an important step for the success was the completion of the Kelenföld region, a complex intermodal junction: tram, metro and bus terminal as well as a train station. This junction needed an P + R car park and an entrance pavilion for the metro.
During the formation of concept for the new pavilion, the most beautiful standards of public pavilion architecture in Budapest were an unavoidable reference. These works, often built before the war, represented in their time a standard that is often painfully lacking in our public spaces today.
The pavilion leading to the Kelenföld metro station is designed in the middle part of the P + R park due to its pedestrian use. The pavilion structurally and by its design can be divided into two main parts: a massive underground substructure and an airy upperstructure. The pavilion has curved geometry at the corners and ends, which formal solution is in line with the flow of pedestrian traffic.
→ meonline → BÉK
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Our proposal was influenced by the local heritage and the intellectual-physical context of the existing monuments, (the nearby ancient Roman settlement, Óbuda Gasworks) the characteristic of the wider surrounding, the presence of the Danube and its built shore, the evolving science and educational campuses of the grandiose park-like landscape. These references, as well as the traditional yet innovative world cycling sports affected our ideas about the new Velodrome.
The structural concept : The subterrean story is a watertight reinforced concrete box. The loads of the Velodrome’s oval dome are carried by a horizontal force onto the the radial double-ring a reinforced concrete structure. The ring receives varying intensity of side pressure from the dome, which is ideally offset by its doubled feauture. The radial beams connecting the outer and inner rings are supported by two-story-tall V-shaped reinforced exposed concrete pillars. The dome itself is a membrane shell with a pre-stressed steel structure. The dome has polar symmetry thus it’s an economic solution since uses few types of elements of relatively thin dimensions. The shed geometry of the roof cladding ensures proper orientation of the integrated solar system. The designed structural system of the Velodrome is on par with elegance and technical development of contemporary track cycling. → epiteszforum
Sports activities Visitors’ activities Administration and Utilities Athletes’ utilities Broadcasting and Communication
The challenge of this family house in Budapest was partly about reconciling the living space needed for a family of five with the size of the small plot (600 m 2 ). With the help of the semisubterrean atrium connected to the garden - the lower level of the house is fully incorporated in the living space.
The simple, gabled, archetypal volume of the house sits on a ‘built platform’starting from the fence unfolded to the end of the atrium. The closed mass only opens up at the ‘negative bay’ terrace and the suspended canopy. The sidewalls of the volume are not fenestrated so the living space faces south / garden.
The façade is covered with a high quality hand-moulded and sanded façade brick of small dimension (fitting the volume of the house) complemented by the varied concrete textures of the ‘platform’. → epiteszforum → BIGSEE
House in a Valley lead architects Márton Dévényi, Pál Gyürki-Kiss Budapest, Hűvösvölgy, 2016-2019 architect Nóra Lukácsi, Boglárka Jakab -Kovács House of the Year Award 2020 Hungary, BIGSEE Award photo Balázs Jakab
In the last decade we have witnessed a paradigm-shift in school architecture worldwide. Globalization, the digital revolution, the development of the knowledgebased society changes the ways in which knowledge is passed on; the appreciation of intellectual capital, lifelong learning are phenomena that fundamentally affect today’s education system. In addition to the school environment, a new institutional and work environment provides knowledge acquisition: there’s a clear increase in demand of progressive and collaborative physical spaces that reflect and support these tendencies.
Cluster: the scientific studies recommend the physical and intellectual incorporation of a clustered design. Each cluster is a ‘home base’ for a student body of 100-120 students, in our case containing 4 educational spaces (classrooms) and a group room. Educational spaces are organized around their own social core (‘Agora’) in a transparent way. This central agora is not only a place for social interaction and circulation but also an extended space of education with its own identity.
The classrooms are designed to accommodate frontally organized lessons as well as they provide an environment for more differentiated educational methods of the future: project-based education, group work, individual assigments, etc.
View from the courtyard Plan, ground floor Model
„While it was appropriate for members of an industrial society to have a knowledge taught at a young age and then interpret it as ‘completed’, [...] in post-industrial societies, due to the rapid obsolescence of knowledge, we have to learn for the rest of our lives, [...] the ability to learn, take initiative, social competences and creativity have become more emphasized.”
(Tibor Tánczos: Planning and Design in Contemporary School Architecture)
marp Jókai Elementary and Grammar School lead architect Márton Dévényi, Pál Gyürki-Kiss Budapest, Rákoscsaba, 2019 architect Dávid András Kiss, Nóra Lukácsi, Márton Lőw research study, concept plan
Classroom+ - Elementary
Classroom+ - Grammar school
Group rooms
Major classroom
Community space
Circulation
Administartion
Utilities
Sports activities
marp
Roof +4,75
Ground floor +0,75
Ground floor ± 0,00
Student hall, Classroom Organizational diagram Model of a Cluster
Storage, Technical flexible use entrance, visual connection exit, balcony
Jókai Elementary and Grammar School lead architect Márton Dévényi, Pál Gyürki-Kiss Budapest, Rákoscsaba, 2019 architect Dávid András Kiss, Nóra Lukácsi, Márton Lőw research study, concept plan
The architectural concept for the Research and Development Centre was heavily influenced by the current changes in the work environment. This change is based on the shift of the structure of knowledge in the post-industrial society we live in. The paradigm-shift overwrites the concept of work, the way we work and the former cultural and social patterns associated it.
In the knowledge-based economy of the digital age, information and its realtime transfer is key. Due to the extensive digitalization in the work environment, the role of stationary work is diminishing, and the use of office space is changing.
The planned R&D centre is not a generic office building, it displays the peculiar technical world of development as well as the supporting sales department that communicates with the outside world. There is a simultaneous need for relatively isolated laboratories, collaborative office space for workshop-based activities and - as a company operating in the field of technological research - the planned centre needed to represent the brand’s ethos.
The enclosing volume of the building is strongly formed by the position on the irregular polygonal plot and a designed connection to the company’s existing site, resulting in an irregular quadrilateral building of compact mass organized around an inner atrium courtyard intended to be constructed in two phases of development.
The atrium, as a historical architectural topos is a visually attractive inner space with excellent microclimatic conditions with an psychologically positive effect, and a great help for interior orientation for circulation.
R&D Centre
lead architect Márton Dévényi, Pál Gyürki-Kiss Hungary, 2019 architect Dávid András Kiss, Nóra Lukácsi, Kitti Baranyai concept plan
FORMAL WORKSPACES
OPEN WORKSPACE | bullpen
/ most common type of workspace
/ multiple zone design options
/ can be organized according to projectbased work
/ encourages teamwork
SEMI-OPEN WORKSPACE
/ for small groups
/ more focused work
/ short meetings
/ soft ways of space partition
/ acoustically protected
SEPARATED WORKSPACE | chillzone
/ for projects of 4-6 members
/ for focused indivisual work
/ focused groupwork
/ acoustically and visually isolated
ENCLOSED ‘ISLAND’
/ conference rooms and labs
/ acoustically and visually isolated
/ surfaces for projection (conference r)
/ divides the office space
CLOSED ROOM
/ for manufacturing, testing
/ separated by walls
INFORMAL WORKSPACE
STAIRS / ’AGORA’
/ social-communal space, kitchenette
/ sponteneous encounters
/ informal meet-ups
/ informal conversations
/ point of orientation
‘STREETS’(ground floor, first floor)
/ quick exchange of information
/ encounters, contacts
/ constand view of the atrium garden as a referential space
/ more than a traditional corridor!
FOYER / ‘FORUM’
/ representation
/ produce display, exhibitions
/ meeting point for guests and the staff
EVENT SPACE
/ representation, conference
/ reception for guests or company events
/ space divided by sliding walls
/ can be opened with the foyer
CAFÉ / RECREATIONAL AREA
/ informal meeting point for guests and employees
/ company events, team-building
Site plan, existing state Site plan, proposal Site plan, axonometric view Photos: Gencsy-mansion, vinyard
Tállya is a historical village in the Tokaj wine region of Hungary known for its vineyards and wine cellars. The region is a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its landscape and cultural heritage.
The winery fits into the historical settlement morphology of the village as an individual building and as a complex of buildings. The proposed volumes of traditional proportions are organized around inner courtyards with varying functions. The buildings face the courtyards with their porches and eaves, reminiscent of the local tradition but re-imagined in a conteporary fashion.
