Hello Wood Pop Up Park Downtown Budapest Project, Architecture Design
Hello Wood Pop Up Park in downtown Budapest
New Hungary Architecture ? design by András Huszár, Péter Pozsár & Dávid Ráday
28 Aug 2018
Hello Wood Pop Up Park in downtown Budapest
Design: various
Hello Wood Pop Up Park in downtown Budapest

Summer Oasis: POP-UP Park Brings People from all Walks of Life Together in Underused Public Space
Hello Wood revives its hugely successful POP-UP Park in co-operation with the Municipality of Budapest City to fill an underused space with a temporary summer haven for both respite from the scorching summer sun and a place of outdoor exercise.

Photos: Petra Gaspar
Last summer architectural studio Hello Wood innovated with its short-term park resting among the trees of a downtown Budapest square. It has been recreated once again this year, building on the values of the POP-UP Park by providing a democratic space for all social groups embedded within the everyday movement of the city.
The park is open to all 24 hours a day, available to all walks of life: the travelling tourist arriving into the city from the airport, the businessperson eating their lunch, local elderly people meeting to relax and chat, or the homeless. Hello Wood wanted this sense of democracy to be epitomised by the POP-UP Park, a unique, free-to-use space that was put together in conjunction with the Municipality of Budapest – who recognised the power of utilising the space temporarily...