CV. Participative. Flexible. Experimental. Other. Activist.

In our uncertain world, only adaptable buildings can serve for a long period of time to meet the challenges of the future. Changeable or movable building elements are great tools to achieve this flexibility 6 . Based on a thorough research, architectural vision should start with mapping opportunities together with future users in a participative3 process. A design proposal should constantly question the status quo and be experimental 15 . Since designing and constructing are cultural activities, a high level of social involvement is required om architects, making us activists 23 and negotiators between the di fferent urban actors.

Education

2018 - 2020 - KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas Brussels, BE

MSc (Urban Projects, Urban Cultures)

2013 - 2018 - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Architecture, HU

BSc (Department of Urban design)

Professional Experience

Wim Goes Architectuur, Gent, BE

Intern Summer 2019

Litkei Tamás Architecture studio, HU

Junior architect Summer 2017

Intern Summer 2016

BASS [Budapest Architecture Students’ Studio]

Member, Mentor and Organizer om Spr ing 2016 till Fall 2018

Skills

Architectural drawings, rendering, detailing: ArchiCAD (E), AutoCAD (A), SketchUp (A)

Adobe Creative Cloud: Photoshop (E), InDesign(E), Lightroom (B), Premier Pro (A), After Effects (B)

Others: Prezi (E), World(A), Excel (A)

(B)beginner, (A) advanced, (E) expert.

Languages Skills

English C1 - Speak and write fluently

German B2 - Need a bit of a re esh

Hungarian - Native

Participative Design Workshops

MICRO MAGDOLNA - PUBLIC BATHHOUSE

In the neglected 8th district of Budapest the high number of unemployment and lack of social services require new kind of social in astructure for people in need. Our team designed a public bathhouse for homeless people as an indicator of their integration process. The design was guided by activists, social workers and a local Roma artist. Our findings and proposal was presented to the public as an open-air installation followed by a debate and round-table discussion.

EASA, LITHUANIA - BRING NIDA FULL CIRCLE

Raising awareness about circular economy and working out a strategy for reducing and reusing the waste produced by the 600 architecture student during the 2 weeks of the summer school.

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Competitions

ECUMENICAL CHAPEL FOR PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS

National Design Competition for students. Shortlisted for the final round among 12 others

FAIRY TALE COMPETITION

Vision for a dystrophic, semi-virtual world, where the information-sharing system manifested itself in a physical, electromagnetic body (in order to work efficiently and independently), resulting as an additional layer on the built environment representing the user’s position in the digital society.

EASA, MALTA - MANIFOLDS Design and construction workshop

Prototyping of a modular, temporary dwellingsystem previously researched at the AA’s Emergent Technologies and Design program. The structure is made out of folded cardboard components which can be easily re-assembled at any underdeveloped area such as in slums or in refugee camps. Besides learning the fabrication and assembly technique, we designed our own cardboard furniture as part of the learning process.

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2015 SUMMER

EASA [EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS ASSEMBLY]

TWO -WEEK LONG INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE SUMMER SCHOOL

WOOD Art camp

Floating pavilion on the Lake Balaton Hands-on experience, design and construction work with wood in a team.

2015 SUMMER

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CV.

Participative. Flexible. Experimental.

Other. Activist.

NO-LONGER / NOT-YET - TEMPORARY USE TACTICS ON VACANT PLOTS

In my master dissertation project, I investigate the potential of temporary use as an alternative tool to tackle the housing shortage in Brussels.

Based on the temporary use model applied by the Brussels based organisation, Communa, the non-used empty plots would be occupied and used for bottomup community activities and to provide housing for people in need; and would be dismantled and set up on a new empty terrain just before the construction of the final building would start.

As a 'land banking' method, the temporary structures will be set up on the properties of the Community Land Trust Brussels, where the land acquisition had happened already, but the construction of the homes have not yet started due to financial issues or due to its complexity and its longer-lasting nature.

2020

MSC DIPLOMA

PROFESSOR : MARTINO TATTARA

TIMELINE SHOWINING THE CIRCULATION OF THE HOMES BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT EMPTY PLOTS

SIMILARITIES IN THE EMPTY PLOTS OWNED BY CLT BXL.

NO-LONGER / NOT-YET - TEMPORARY USE TACTICS ON VACANT PLOTS

While working out the details of the design, I elaborated on the nature of such flexible and constantly changing constructions; the problem of constant relocation and its possibilities for learning and improvement; and issues connected to the possible degradation of the provided in astructural and structural elements.

The temporary homes do not just offer accommodation but are part of an integrated empowering process, where the self-building is used to give confidence and new skills to the tenants; but also for bringing them closer to architecture, and through maintenance, the residents can have more control over their built environment.

2020

MSC DIPLOMA

PROFESSOR : MARTINO TATTARA

EVALUATING DISMANTLABLE BUILDING COMPONENTS IN A TIME/PRICE MATRIX + SEE BOOKLET

DETAILS OF MAINTANCE AND UPKEEP OF THE DESMOUNTABLE BUILDING ELEMETS

NO-LONGER / NOT-YET - TEMPORARY USE TACTICS ON VACANT PLOTS

The garden around the homes serves as a semi-public space, but is also a productive garden, where special absorbent plants are grown to clean the possible contaminations om the soil.

The character of the garden also changes according to its urban context while the homes are travelling to di fferent sites: it would be a playground on the site in Laeken which is in the proximity of schools, or an out-door gym on the site in Anderlecht, which is right next to a soccer field.

Important element is the temporary fence that serves as a communication surface about Communa‘s events and about the future of CLT homes.

2020

MSC DIPLOMA

PROFESSOR : MARTINO TATTARA

STRUCTURAL PROPOSAL AND CALCULATIONS SUPPORTING THE DECISION MAKING

SPECIAL PLANTS GROWN TO ABSORB SOIL CONTEMINATION

SHELVES AS BUILT-IN FURNITURES

PRODUCTIVE EXHIBITION - CIRCULAR BXL

2018 Autumn

Studio task: reuse the partly empty logistics building situated in the industrial Kanal area near the Centre of Brussels.

A er studying the urban fabric and the demography of the area, I decided to design a place providing creative jobs coping with the challenges of the 4th industrial revolution.

Opened to the public, the exhibition-like workshop spaces wish to raise awareness and promote the circular lifestyle by giving insight into the circular production flow. The building provides experimental production spaces for artists, designers, furniture makers and wood workers to produce new items by recycling or up-cycling unwanted or discarded goods.

Design Studio Project At Ku Leuven Master Year 1

Focused On Circular Economy

Seeing and taking part in the up-cycling process creates connection between users and their old/broken products, resulting in slowing down the consumption phase. According to the ‘Ikea effect’ consumers value a product more if they took part in its creation.

Evolution Of The Form

Aim: demolish as little om the building as possible, and reuse all the materials during the renovation process.

Cataloguing the materials of the office building on the western side (Building ‘B’), deconstruct its bricks as new partition walls in Building ‘C’ [01].

The skeleton structure of building Building ‘C’ made it possible to relocate companies to the empty storage rooms within the building, eeing up space on the western side for new functions [02]

Making a cut in building ‘C’ [03] and relocating the viaduct to the cut ee up the space around the newly separated building [04]

Installing cranes on the roof for a more efficient circulation [05], adding a stairy public space to the main entrance as a transitional zone [06].

Catalogue of reusable materials [01].

Movable cranes operating om the roo op as a vertical supplier for the rentable, self-contained studio spaces.

Circulation On Architectural Level

Tenants have shared access to a fully equipped kitchen, toilets and changing rooms, situated around the fixed technical core.

FREEVENTY - APP FOR URBAN ACTIVISM

2019 SPRING

The Freeventy app is a horizontal online platform aimed at generating urban activism on unused public spaces throughout organizing ee public events. The base of the app is a map of unused public spaces with their existing ee in astructure (electricity, drinking water, noise protection). City dwellers can browse between these potential sites and organise their own socially engaged cultural events there.

Unlike most architectural projects, I wished to operate only with the existing tools without the need to design or build anything new, in order to keep it a ffordable to everyone and sustainable in the longer term.

Design Studio

PROFESSOR : JONATHAN ROBERT MAJ

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