FOCUS 4: OFFICE BUILDING, HUNGARY

Focus 4

Office Building, Dunaújváros, Hungary

Finta Studio

This building complex is a crucial element in Dunaújváros's large-scale urban development project. An important aspect of the renovation is to open up and invigorate the previously rather somber environment. A generous, double-volume area was created on the ground floor to provide a lobby, temporary exhibition space, and a bar. The glazed wall of the main façade juts out, creating a new, external wall, through which visitors enter the building. This area leads to the new main staircase and elevator located in the lobby. All spaces around the building are public, as an important part of our concept to welcome the public. A durable, easily cleaned, sustainable, and graffiti-resistant material, namely light and dark grey Swisspearl fiber cement wall cladding, is a material we have used successfully in numerous other projects.

LOCATION: 1 Városháza tér, Dunaújváros, Hungary CLIENT: Dunaújváros City Council ARCHITECT: Finta Studio, Budapest; József Finta, Gábor Péter

BUILDING PERIOD: 2013–2014 GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Grabarics Swietelsky Vemévszer consortium, Überlingen, Germany FAÇADE CONSTRUCTION: Meilinger és Társa Kft., Keszthely FAÇADE MATERIAL: Swisspearl Carat, Onyx 7099 and Swisspearl Nobilis, Grey N 215