Aron Sasvari Work 2023

* ARON SASVARI PORTFOLIO 2023

Experience M-Teampannon, Budapest 2020-22

New Museum of Transport, Budapest 2020-23 (Planning, SD-CP)

DS+R designed brownfield museum project, (80.000 sqm), renovation of former industrial complex with new extension. Role: design coordination at local partner, including coordination between international and local designers, project scheduling, steel structural and interior detailing coordination, vertical circulation core planning. Schematic, permitting and construction design phases. Team leading in CP phase.

Narmer Studio Budapest 2013-20

main projects

Art Restoration and Storage Complex Budapest 2013-20 (Built)

Restoration and storage complex for Museum Quartier, Budapest. New Main Building (40.000 sqm) and renovation of former hospital building as reception building. Role: design concept, facade design, renovation design, construction supervision. Awards: Europe’s Best Public Building Development Award, prized, 2021. Budapest Construction Industry Award, praise, 2020.

Private comissions 2013-20

Rudapithecus Spectacle, Rudabánya 2015-16 (Built)

Budafok Lions Court Budapest 2019 (Development Plan)

S.M. Suburban house, Biatorbágy 2013

F.N. Villa, Budapest, with János Dobai 2019-20

Shelter for archeological site and reception building. Pigmented reinforced concrete structure at former mine site. Role: participation in design process, reception building planning, construction coordination. BIG SEE Architecture Award winner, 2019.

Development plan of listed former champagne factory in Budapest satellite town centre, with new parking lot. Event hall 4000 sqm in former industrial hall, museum, office, hotel and public park. Role: design concept, presentation for local municipality.

Cubic concrete house (180 sqm) in a satellite town, Budapest. Schematic and permitting phases.

Resp. designer: János Dobai DLA. 900 sqm villa for a family of five, with guest house. Role: participation in design process from schematic to permit phases, interior design presentation for Client.

Architecture MSc BUTE 2007-13

Fashion

Graduation Project: Skiff Park 2013

Ostkonzept

At Budapest University of Technology and Economics. 40.000 sqm 250 apartments condominium on the Northern Danube bank, Budapest, modeling a realistic investment situation, aiming a clarified, rationalist design. Lecturer: János Dobai DLA.

Cofounding (2016) and managing a fashion brand, with a contemporary Eastern European DNA. Participation at Budapest Central European Fashion Weeks and in mentoring program by Hungarian Design and Fashion Agency. Experience in fashion design, brand management, branding, print and graphic design.

Painting

Luxor West Bank missions 2013-16

Concrete studies with neo-avantgarde painter János Fajó at Szerencs Summer Art School (2004-10). Practicing in geometric and abstract expressive painting.

Archeological excavation. in Theban Tomb 32, Luxor, Egypt. Documentation of findings, tomb walls and paintings.

Hassan Fathy survey workshops, documenting the author’s accessible buildings in Luxor and in New Valley, Egypt.

ARON SASVARI ID*

Aron Sasvari (*1988 Budapest) is a design driven architect with a versatile background in art and fashion.

He graduated in Architecture at the Budapest University of Technology in 2013, and also studied painting with concrete geometric painter János Fajó. In 2016, Sasvari co-founded the fashion brand Ostkonzept and managed it for seven seasons. He participated in archeological and architecture survey missions in Luxor, Egypt in 2013-16.

After graduating, he started his career in architecture at Narmer Studio, Budapest, where he worked on two award winning built cultural projects in key design roles from conceptual phase to completion: Art Restoration Complex, Budapest, and Rudabánya Archeological Shelter. During the years he has also worked on several house designs in private commissions.

In 2020 Sasvari joined the New Museum of Transport project team at DS+R’s Hungarian partner, M-Teampannon, and worked for 3 years in an international environment closely with the designers on the Museum’s planning from schematic to construction design phases.

In his works, he prefers to ’keep it simple and keep it real’ - where real means strong focus on context, use and sustainability, while simple means an aspiration for pure forms, rough materiality and well proportioned ratio. He puts primary focus on the process, where systematic building of designs and projects, holistic thinking and interdisciplinary collaboration is key. This reasonable approach is well balanced with playful thinking, empathy, and a wide range of cultural references.

NEW MUSEUM OF TRANSPORT, BUDAPEST

DESIGNER: DILLER, SCOFIDIO + RENFRO, NEW YORK ROLE: PROJECT ARCHITECT AT LOCAL PARTNER, M-TEAMPANNON

The New Museum of Transport is a 50.000 sqm brownfield project at a heritage railway maintenance site in Budapest, with the revitalization of several listed industrial buildings and a bold new addition. The sensitively revitalized old Diesel Hall is continued in the spacious New Hall, forming a vast contiguous exhibition space. The new gallery’s impressive slender steel structure provides an uninterrupted space below a skylit lamella roof with a skybox above the roof, while the complex spatial system enables new perspectives to the vehicles from a hovering mezzanine and a sunken entry space.

DS+R’s entry was chosen at an international design competition in 2019, and further planning phase started in the Summer of 2020 and will finish in the Spring of 2023. Joining in September 2020 as a project architect to M-Teampannon, DS+R’s local architecture partner, my roles included close work with the designers, design coordination and mediation between international and local designers and engineers, project scheduling, steel structural coordination, in addition to working on the New Hall drawing development, specificly vertical transportation cores and stairs from Schematic to Construction Design Phases.

New Museum of Transport / Budapest, Hungary, EU / 50.000

m² / Planning from Schematic to Constructuion Design: 2020. August - 2023. March / Designer: DS+R New York. Local Architect partner: M-Teampannon / Images: DS+R ARON

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MUSEUM OF TRANSPORT: VERTICAL CIRCULATION CORES

Beyond project coordination, my task was the development of the two cores in the New Hall of the Museum, where elevators, staircases, complex electrical and MEP systems needed to be coordinated and detailed in a complicated structural steel bracing frame, following DS+R’s instructions. The cores are minimalisticly cladded in blacken steel, while the stairs are signature refined industrial elements, with broom yellow frame, metal mesh guardrails and concrete treads. Another one of my responsibilities also covered the material and color coordinaton of the New Hall of the Museum, as the coordination spreadsheet illustrates.

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<MADÁCH> LIBRARY AND CULTURE HALL, VÁC

COMPETITION ENTRY, 2022 / TEAM: ARON SASVARI + IMRE BOKANYI + ZSOFIA SZOKE

Vác, a middle size town nearby the Hungairian capital, called for a competition to renew its futuristic soc-modern Culture Hall from the 70’s and add a library extension. As an independent team, we defined the main goal as “creating spaces that actually attract life and fun” with a spectrum of activites, and in return involve cultural functions into public circulation, unlike number of yawning cultural developments. The design adds a bridge-like two-story rotated extension, which spans above the flat part of the original building and sensitively connects to the circular theatre space. Beyond the required library, the building and the park include interior and exterior leisure and study spaces, rooftop sport fields and sun terrace, and skateboard and workout elements around the building in a natural garden environment.

Renovation and Library Extension for Madách Cultural Centre / Vác, Hungary, EU / 2022 / 3000 sqm / Team: Aron Sasvari, Imre Bokányi, Zsofia Szőke

ART RESTORATION CENTRE, BUDAPEST

RESTORATION WORKSHOP AND UNDERGROUND ARTEFACT STORAGE FACILITY FOR MUSEM QUARTIER

ROLES: DESIGN CONCEPT, FACADE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION FOLLOW UP

For Budapest’s developing City Park Museum Quarter, a new service center was established on a neighboring former hospital site, in two 19th century hospital buildings and an additional 40.000 sqm new main building. The latter includes a 4 story underground storage facility and 3 levels of above ground artefact restoration workshops. It’s architecture aims to represent a neutral, timeless tectonic approach with a solid, concrete basis, and a more open upper part with column and transom facade elements, that provide shading.

The six year long design and construction process gave a chance to participate in a large-scale project from concept phase to completion - with key role in developing the concept and design through the entire planning process, facade design, and also the construction site supervision.

Awards: Europe’s Best Public Building Development Award, prized, 2021. Budapest Construction Industry Award, praise, 2020.

Building A - Main Building at National Museum Restoration and Conservation Centre (OMRRK) / Budapest, Hungary, EU / 40.000 sqm / Planning: 2014-16, Construction: 2016-2020 / Narmer Architecture Studio. Responsible architect: Zsolt Vasáros.

OMRRK VISITOR CENTRE, BUDAPEST

RENOVATION OF LISTED BUILDING

DESIGN CONCEPT, OVERALL DETAILED PLANNING PROCESS, CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISION

The building, originally the chapel of the Jewish community’s 19th century hospital, had been converted beyond recognition through the decades. At the renovation, first the building was cleaned down to its original structure, uncovering the double-height central space, which was conserved with bare brick walls, exposing all the traces of conversions. New functions in the two wings were added in a restrained manner, while the exterior was reconstructed to its original shape.

Building C - Visitor Centre at National Museum Restoration and Storage Centre (OMRRK) / Budapest, Hungary, EU / 500 m² / Planning: 2014-16, Construction: 2016-2020 / Narmer Architecture Studio. Responsible architect: Zsolt Vasáros.

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SKIFF PARK

GRADUATION PROJECT

250 APARTMENT CONDOMINIUM AT RIVER DANUBE, BUDAPEST

The project is a study of design possibilities for a condominium under realistic circumstances. With a down-to-earth approach, the aspects of a real-life situation were considered, from building and parking regulations, full utilization, optimal mixture of apartmens. A consciously pure design language was developed, bringing together all the different apartments and loggias into a grid system. The complex is formed by one larger and four smaller buildings above a parking level, completed with an artificial wide landscape, at the newly occupied North-Eastern riverfront of Budapest.

Skiff Park - 250 apartment condominium - graduation project / Danube bank, Budapest XIII, Hungary, EU / 40.000 sqm / 2013 / at BUTE, lecturer: János Dobai

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RUDABÁNYA PALEONTOLOGICAL SITE

VISITOR CENTRE AND SHELTER BUILDING

ROLE: DESIGN DEVELOPMENT OF RECEPTION CENTRE. PARTICIPATION IN SHELTER B. PLANNING. The exceptional site itself is an abandoned iron mine with a reddish landscaping, but also founding place of significant fossils of Rudapithecus Hungaricus, located in a less fortunate corner of Hungary. In an overall tourism development project, a new shelter was built with view of the mine lake, and a reception building with few pavilons in the landscape. The buildings were built in concrete for security reasons, with a reddish pigmentation echoing the landscape, and a typical container-like formwork. Both buildings feature large concrete pivot doors, with 5,5 m width at the reception building. BIG SEE Architecture Award winner, 2019.

Rudapitecus - Shelter and Visitor Centre / Rudabánya - Felsőtelekes, Hungary, EU / 2014-2016.

Intellecutal property of Narmer Architecture Studio. Responsible architect: Zsolt Vasáros.

Architecture: Zsolt Megyesi, Aniko Somlai, Aron Sasvari

SUBURBAN HOME

COMPACT UNIT FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR ALSO A STUDY ON SUBURBAN MELANCHOLIA AND COPING STRATEGIES

The commission was for a building for a commuting family in a suburban village near Budapest, but the assignment also required responses to the melancholic suburban isolation and diffuse environment. The bunker-like, concrete cubic house, reduced to a more and more compact size during the design process, has a very simple layout: on one side a large living space, on the other a shifted two story part, with bedrooms above and a garage and a boulder room below. In the middle, a skylit central stair and study space connects the functions. The focused structure provides a calm and sober environment, escaping from the everyday life noise.

F.N. VILLA

LEAD DESIGNER: JÁNOS DOBAI

ROLE: DESIGN ASSISTANCE, CLIENT COMMUNICATION, INTERIOR DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

The expansive villa, commissioned by a merchant, was to be located in a renowned neighbourhood in Budapest. With consideration to the rather unfortunate orientation of the site, the main wing was located in the center of the plot, providing an openable, see-through living space in the middle of the garden, almost in the nature.

The villa features a master bedroom, bedrooms with bathroom for three kids, a large living space with kitchen and studio, garage, underground hobby and welness area with spatio, and a separate guest house.

F.N. Villa / Budapest, Hungary, EU / 720 sqm / 2019-21 / Responsible architect: János Dobai.

SCHOOL GYM

COLLEGE PROJECT: EXTENSION OF A MIDCENTURY LISTED SCHOOL BUILDING ALSO A STUDY ON ONE-NESS

The L-shaped building of the Budafok primary school lacks gym extension. The proposal adds a profile-glass cladded, simple cubic wing to the original, 50’s building, completing the complex around the court. While the main mass of the building prefers to keep silent, like one large block of translucent stone, the interior’s highlighter colors are rather awakening as a kind of visual warm-up.

Gym for Szent István primary school - college design project / Budafok, Budapest, Hungary, EU / 1500 sqm / 2010 / at BUTE, lecturer: János Dobai

CHINESE CULTURAL EMBASSY, BUDAPEST

COLLEGE PROJECT: TRANSFORMATION OF AN INDUSTRIAL STORAGE BUILDING INTO AN EXHIBIT SPACE

A 19th century brick granary, with a 20th century concrete interior frame structure, located in the middle of Budapest’s post-industrial Chinese district, is to be converted into an exhibition space for the representation of China’s culture and economy. In the interior, cut-outs open the originally depressed spaces, transforming them into a contiguous exhibit space. The main addition is a top-level event space replacing the current attic with a red container element, as a consciously obvious symbol of China’s significance in the global supply chains, with the goal of attracting extensive public attention.

China - exhibit space - college design project / Budapest X., Hungary, EU / 1700 sqm / 2010 / at BUTE, lecturer: Zsolt Vasáros.

TOKAJ CELLARS

PRE-COLLEGE PROJECT

DESIGN STUDY FOR WINE CELLARS’ FRONT AT HISTORIC WINE SITE

Located between the railway and Tokaj hill, the existing row of cellars require a face-lift, to replace the false folkish entrance fronts. The proposal, created in a 2 week pre-college summer project, features bold geometric architecture of pyramidical shapes in light blue pigmented concrete. The front buildings serve as wine tasting spots and provide accommodation for the owners too.

Szerelmi Pincesor / Tokaj, Hungary, EU / 8 x 100 sqm / 2006 / at Szerencs Summer School, lecturer: Jenő Kapy. Images added later.

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VILLAGE HOME

COLLEGE PROJECT: VILLAGE FAMILY HOME FOR A COMMUTING LIFESTYLE

ALSO A STUDY ON FITTING-IN A CENTRAL EUROPEAN VILLAGE SILOUETTE

The house was designed in a tiny Transylvanian village - but could be anywhere in the region, where traditional village houses here are usually one story 7 m wide gable roofed buildings, positioned perpendicular to the street. The simple idea of rotating the ridge slightly moves the shape of the building, while the form and the size fit in the local scale. The otherwise minimalist shaped building is a home of a commuting family of four.

Village house / Vețca (Székelyvécke), Romania, EU / 2008 / 140 sqm / at BUTE, lecturer: Tibor Tardos

BUDAFOK - LION’S COURT

DEVELOPMENT PLAN, REVITALIZATION OF A LISTED FORMER CHAMPAGNE FACTORY

ROLE: CONCEPT DESIGN AND DOCUMENTATION, CLIENT PRESENTATION

Budafok, like other satellites of Budapest that were attached to the capital in the 1950’s, struggles with the lack of coherent town center and architectural identity. The development plan of a former champagne factory points to this problem, aiming to involve a centrally positioned but decade-long abandoned plant into the public circulation. The complex features valuable baroque and early 20th century listed buildings, that can contribute to the re-identification of the town, which has roots in champagne production.

The project includes an event hall, a restaurant and a hotel, moreover, hosts champagne industry associations’ office in a new wing. Completed with a public park and an external parking facility - the whole serves the local community and attracts visitors in large number at the same time.

Lions Court - development plan / Budafok, Budapest, Hungary, EU / 2019 / 25.000 sqm /

Role: architectural concept development and documentation, client presentation / at Narmer Architecture Studio, lead architect: Zsolt Vasáros. Visualization: Gabor Nagy.

RUDABÁNYA - VISITOR CENTRE

COLLEGE PROJECT: VISITOR CENTRE IN A HISTORC SITE OF A FORMER STEEL MINE ALSO A STUDY ON DECAY AND INDUSTRIAL REMEMBERANCE

Rudabánya, once the center of Hungarian steel-mining industry in its heyday, is now a memento of the region’s history in heavy industry. The reddish landscape and turquoise colored lake is a rare spectacle that could fit in a sci-fi movie. The visitor centrer’s architecture reflects the decay: the massive, cantilevered steel truss is cladded with white rectangular panels, but already gapped, as if a number of them have fallen off over time.

Rudabánya - visitor centre for former mine / Rudabánya, Hungary, EU / 700 sqm / 2011, visual developed later / at BUTE, two days design project. Visualization added later.

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RELIEFS IN CONCRETE

An experimental series of concrete reliefs, with several formwork materials, like striped rubber floor and cartoon work. 2011.

EXPEDITIONS IN EGYPT, LUXOR WEST BANK

EL KHOKA ARCHEOLOGICAL MISSION 2013, 2015, 2016

HASSAN FATHY SURVEY MISSION 2015, 2016

The first project in which I was involved in Egypt was a Hungarian archeological mission at Theban Tomb 32 - the tomb of Djehutymose, a chief of Amun during the reign of Ramesses II (19th Dynasty). Role: hand-drawing documentation of the finds, tomb walls and wall paintings. The second project developed from the former: an architectural mission surveying the accessible works of Hassan Fathy, starting from New Gourna in Luxor. Published in a two vol. book: Current Research of the Hassan Fathy Survey Mission in Egypt.

CONCRETE STUDIES

CONCRETE ART STUDIES

By definition, concrete art is abstract art that is entirely free of any basis in observed reality and that has no symbolic meaning. Studying with János Fajó, the renowned neo avant-garde painter, who was taught by the lead constructivist Lajos Kassák in Hungary - this was a chance to absorb the clear, conscious but instinctive way of art and life. The shaped plywood/oil paintings represent this studying process and the investigation of „own forms”.

ART

→curve I., curve II. oil on plywood 35x150 cm 2009. 2014.

crumples oil on plywood 80 x 80 cm 2014.

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2009, 2014

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INTERIOR TERRITORIES

The series of expressive, automatic paintings was started in 2014, a result of several years of self discovery in psychoanalysis. On the images the newly discovered, hardly explicable, intangible interior landscapes are projected, with all their anxiety, anger or nostalgy.

Interior landscapes, VII., XI., I., all gouache on paper, 70x100 cm. 2014-15.

OST KONZEPT

WORK IN FASHION AND BRANDING. BRAND COFOUNDING AND MANAGING THROUGH SEVERAL YEARS.

Ostkonzept was established in 2016, with the aim of creating an authentic DNA with an eastern, but at the same time European, background: barbaric and sophisticated, intellectually playful, with normcore pieces in a particular mash-up. The brand gained attention and appeared during Budapest fashion weeks, but was put on hold during Covid years that challenged the entire industry and supply chains.

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