AKÁCFA HOUSE

Year: 2007

Location: Akacfa, Klauzal street, Budapest

Architect: Perényi Tamás

Designed for three adjacent sites, the house has 120 apartments.Although the new plot, created by the merger, does not fit the size of the adjacent plots, it has the advantage of creating an inner courtyard that has significantly more favourable airspace ratios than the same ratios at the surrounding streets. The handling of the facade scales of Akácfa street resulting from the combined plot was particularly important: the facade fracture at the point of the original intermediary plot boundary has restored the former magnitudes; however, the architectural elements of the two facade fields (and the Klauzál Street facade) are the same. The guiding principle for designing facade surfaces was geometry: the proportions of the various apertures combined were the same as those of the entire facade area, so that despite the apertures on the lower three floors moving in relation to one another, a uniform composition could be achieved.