VIKTOR KÉKESI PORTFOLIO 2015
CV Name: Viktor KĂŠkesi Date of birth: 19. 11. 1988 Place of birth: Budapest, Hungary Nationality: Hungarian Email: kekesi.viktor@gmail.com Phone: +3630 6212154 Work experience 2015 March - Present, Architect at Tiba Architecture Studio, Budapest Architectural design and BIM development for an office building (60 000m2), Revit Autodesk 2014 January - August, Trainee at DeZwarteHond, The Netherlands, Rotterdam Architectural design, 3D visualization and urban design, VectorWorks and ArchiCAD 2013 August - 2014 December: Trainee at Tiba Architecture Studio, Budapest Architectural design and urban design, city planning scale, Revit Autodesk 2011 & 2012 Summer: Internship in Tokyo, Japan at Front Office Tokyo, all together 6 months Architectural design for family houses and public building design, AutoCAD, Google Sketchup 2009 August: Field work at the restoration of the Miszla mansion, Makay Enterprise Architectural design for a medium scale castle with historical details, ArchiCAD, hand drawing 2008 August: Surveyor of traditional village houses in Transylvania, Makay Enterprise Field work, survey and research for traditional Transylvanian village houses, hand drawings 2006 August: Surveyor, Digicart Geodetical Supplier and Developer Ltd. Education 2007-2015 Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Architecture (Ba+Ma) 2003-2007 Bilingual Croatian Secondary School in Budapest 1995-2003 Primary schools (in Budapest and Zagreb, Croatia)
Lifepath Born in Budapest 1988
Moved to Zagreb
Moved to Budapest
Moved to Zagreb
Moved to Budapest
Internship in Tokyo
Traineeship in Rotterdam
Present Budapest
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Language knowledge Business/conversational English (Intermediate level awarded) Fluent in Russian, Hungarian and Croatian (proficiency level degree awarded) Dutch (beginner level) ENG
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Skills Computer skills: Architectural: Revit, ArchiCad, VectorWorks, AutoCad, Sketchup, VRay, Artlantis Graphic design: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign. Other: Microsoft Word/Excel/Powerpoint, Prezi Autodesk Revit
ArchiCAD
VectorWorks
Google Sketchup
VRay for Sketchup
Driver’s license: “A1” and “B” category
Philosophy I consider myself as an open and curious person: I am interested in objects that are taking place around us and the environment that surrounds us. At the same time I find it really exciting how our life is connected and influenced by our living space and how this relationship should be treated by us? In my life I lived several years abroad and during these experiences I was confirmed that different cultures can give different answers to this question, and certainly the idea of “useful and beautiful” can be estimated differently in every country. After questioning this, it is the logical and needed next step that people want and should become an active participant in shaping our environment. For me architecture is art and science at the same time and I was always interested in the different methods and reasons since elementary school. The hardest part but also the greatest opportunity is to realise and combine all the people necessities and professional possibilities to create something “human”. During my university studies and work experience I was convicte the diversity and complex nature of architecture, which further increased my respect and further interest for my profession. Hobbies Sports (waterpolo, swimming, hiking), photography, drawing.
FÓT LIBRARY
Library: Hungary, F贸t city, castle park. The building is situated in the garden an old castle next to the park stone wall which gave the inspiration for the position, design and the main shape of the library. the idea is to make connection with the city over the wall by lifting up the main reading sections with leaning pillars. The building is opening up with glass surface on the inner side but towards the park it is monolithic similar to the sorroundng wall. The inside is fluid where the visual and spatial connection is permament.
BUDAPEST ART CENTER
Factory rehabilitation, Art center: Budapest. The existing building was designed for testing turbines built in the Ganz factory in 1920 but since 1960 it is standing empty in a dense urban environment. The idea was to keep and expose the original structure and the main test hangar which has 4 meter thick concrete walls but complete it with new transparent shell to show the past and the present. Functionally it is an art center with large open office areas and smaller studios all connected with common areas.
BUDAPEST COMMUNITY CENTER
Community Center: Budapest, University final thesis. For my final project my goal was to design a public building in a dense urban area which is familiar to me and is connected somehow to an existing building where I have to solve the main questions of new and old and reshaping existing public areas. In Budapest there are a lot of buildings form the late ‘60-’70-’80 which have some great architecture quality but yet they are not appreciated. The existing cultural center building is a typical example for the period when the economical and cultural possebilities were modest so the architects had to solve new questions with new approaches and some unexpected ideas by using expected materials and methods.
BUDAPEST COMMUNITY CENTER
The addition to the existing cultural center is a music school which is needed in the area. The old buildings complex plan made it possible for the new building to be placed inside the inner garden but lifted up from the surface becouse of the circulation. The new bulding is connected with the inner garden with an underground building and public space. The metal structure is provideing lightness and transparency for the building and in this way it is visually and literally connecting inside and outside.
BUDAPEST INTERMODAL HUB
Intermodal hub: Budapest. Two highly populated districts are separated by a train line so the idea was to connect the two districts with new joinings through new functions and buildings. The train line needs the sound reductional covering by noise tolerating or partial time used buildings. West side (Ăšjpest) is the area of daily services like public transport, bank, post offices and P+R, the east side (RĂĄkospalota) is the cultural part with different studios and learning units. The idea of the new intermodal hub exerts to connect the outer territories of the city with the center for the better living conditions with new transport and public buildings and spaces.
BUDAPEST FAMILY HOUSE
Residental house: Budapest, XI. district, sloping terrain, family house for four people. The main determining of the design was the sloping terrain and the great view on the whole city. The buliding is separated in 3 cuboids, the 1. is recessed in the ground, that is the arrival zone, the 2. is the main living and public area and the 3. is the more private, sleeping zone. All together the result is a simple shape with a clearly visible functional separation and spaces giving the opportunity for modern family life.
TOKYO INTERNSHIP
Internship 2011, 2012: I was lucky to have the possibility to visit Tokyo, Japan and work at Frontofficetokyo for more than six months. During the internships i made real and digital drawings and models and I also had the possibility to participate with my design in an international competition. This time was a great experience for me to see other methods, to understand a different country and way of planning.
ROTTERDAM INTERNSHIP In the spring of 2014 I spent an Erasmus internship in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The office, DeZwarteHond was a complex design office where I could experience a big variety of architectural and urban scale designs at the same time. The half a year spent in The Netherlands was a great professional and personal experience, with a large influence on my work and thinking.
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