SCHEDULE OF THE DAY

ANDRAS DOBOS
Managing Director LAB5 Architects, Hungary

MILÁN CSUKA
Project Developer Reynaers Aluminium Kft.

“Építőipari trendek az alumínium nyílászárók piacán.”

MARCO PETRESCHI
Founder Petreschi Architects, Italy

"Sacred Architecture: a Square for Two Million Spectators"

Case Studies: Great Jubilee of 2000 – XV World Youth Day; Churches of St. Theresa of Calcutta and St. Thomas the Apostle in Rome

His projects, like those selected for the presentation, are always in harmony with the history, materials, culture and identity of the places where they take place. Fundamental in his design research is to maintain the continuity of the relationship between pre-existence and both expressive and technological innovation, pursuing respect for what Norberg-Schulz identified in the idea of Genius loci.

ZOLTAN NEVILLE
Partner Coldefy Architects, France

"Designing Social Spaces"

Case Studies: Fondation Chine; Budapest Lake11; Bao'an Public Art Center; European Parliament of Brussels

The presentation will explore how large scale projects are able to foster social connections that are necessary in the future development of our urban areas and will present innovation in typological approach, material application and façade systems, as well as collaborative methods. 

ANGELIKI ATHANASIADOU & KATERINA VASSILAKOU

Founding partners AVW Architecture, Greece

"Public Buildings For Individual Experiences"

Case Studies: Athens International Airport Expansion; Competition for Naval Museum in Athens Metropolitan Waterfront; Chinese Cultural Center in Athens

ANDREA D'ANTRASSI
Associate Partner MAD architects, China

Case Studies: FENIX Museum of Migration, Rotterdam, Netherlands; UNIC, Paris, France; 71 Via Boncompagni, Rome, Italy

The renovation and the improvement of the urban context.Innovative materials, sustainability, human & nature relationship, high technological approches on construction

TIBOR GERMAN
Co-Founder Paragram Studio, Hungary

"Reconstructing Downtown Stations of Budapest M3 Metro Line"

Case Study: M3 Metro Line

The presentation gives a short overview on the process of the reconstruction of the busiest metro stations of Hungary: technical requirements and architectural aspects; how the new design reflects to the original architecture of the ’70-ies; what makes each station unique and recognizable, but forming part of a standardized system.

ALEXANDRU CIUCĂ

Technical Director ISOPAN

 ''Innovative Façade Solutions in contemporary architecture for large scale projects''

TOMAŽ KRIŠTOF
Founder Studio Kristof, Slovenia

GREGOR REICHENBERG
Partner Reichenberg Arhitektura, Slovenia

"Slovenian Case Study: Importance of architects' decisions/ Architecture as a political act"

NAGY CSABA
Founder Archikon, Hungary

"Small Projects Vs. Large Projects"

Case Studies: Vizafogó Park; MAG Art Gallery and apartment block

The design process of small and large-scale buildings is different. The Vizafogó park pavilion is a small building, while the MAG Gallery is an extension of a warehouse building with two apartment towers. The presentation is about the role of individual and group work in planning.

PAVOL PAŇÁK
Senior Architect bkps, Slovakia

"Between baroque and late modern"

Case Studies: reconstruction and extention of the Slovak National Galery in Bratislava

HANA HOSI NARVAEZ BAUTISTA

Director Stefano Boeri Architetti, Italy

"From Vertical Forest to Green Obsession"

Case Studies: Ca' delle Alzaie (Treviso); Palazzo Verde (Antwerp); Trudo Vertical Forest (Eindhoven)

The projects of Vertical Forests show the benefits of implementing nature-based solutions into the urban environment. The aim is to develop strategies for introducing nature as a new frontier of urban development, towards the improvement of air quality, life quality, public health and attractiveness of our cities. 

ALIREZA TAGHABONI
Founder NextOffice, Iran

"Paraduxality of context"

Case Studies: Poet's House; Mashhad C.E.O Headquarter; Sharifi-ha House

Context is influenced by politics and consequently by the economy. The introduced projects show the possibility of creating architectural design in this context. Projects Show how politics, social issues and economic realities can keep pace with architectural aspiration.

TAMÁS BALOGH

Company director Lamilux Hungária Kft.

“Lamilux Skylights”

THIERRY DAMEZ-FONTAINE
Director 2Portzamparc, France

”Recent works by 2Portzamparc"

Case Studies: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris

This presentation will showcase the open block as a means to conceive large scale projects.

GIDEON MAASLAND
Director MVRDV, The Netherlands

"Urgencies"

Case Studies: Tripolis; Valley

We live in a changing world with more and more urgencies. How does MVRDV deal with CO2-based design? How do they focus on Re-use, and what can that bring us? What kind of tools can be applied? Gideon Maasland will highlight these and more topics using the latest projects of MVRDV. Tripolis park for re-use; Valley for creating more density with human scale and many more projects.

HOLLY DEICHMANN (online)
Associate Principal Diller Scofidio + Renfro, USA

"New Museum of Transport"

Case Studies: New Museum of Transport Budapest, Hungary