S1 project - discovering the underworld

EEA proposal: Our architectural concept is based on the traditions of the area and the special features of the cellar system, assuming the necessar y infrastructural development.

By lowering the level of the ground, opening the cellar system from above, and creating length cut tings, ‘canyons’, we disclose the space system of the cellar, and we create an ‘under world’ besides and under the existing ‘upper world’. The t wo worlds are in visual relation with each other, but due to their dif ferent levels and the more hidden nature of the cellar system, they will be able to house dif ferent functions. The upper world will be the place of the quiet residential and rela xation functions. The under world will house the noisier enter tainment, commercial and cultural functions.

The visual connection of the upper world and the under world will be evident in more respects. On the one hand, with the varied disclosure of the cellar system we create places enriched with views upwards and downwards. The stone which remains at the formation of the cut tings, the disclosures and the canyons ser ve as the natural facade of the canyons, while the ex tracted ashlar will be used at the creation of the sur face buildings, thus the usage of the same material will become another link. The space system of the cellar slashed by canyons will be the main organising force of the development of the area, the functions of the upper world and the under world will be formed on this frame.

As a result, we believe that the area will have a unique, matchless character, which will at tract the at tention of qualit y developers, thus making it significantly more valuable. If in parallel with the realisation of the project, the expected infrastructural developments in this par t of the town are also carried out, then the area will be linked by more ties to the life of the cit y, and as a result, the centre of Kőbánya will be formed in this region.