PRTZN Architecture has used upholstered foam blocks to transform a tiny room in a Hungarian church into a children's playroom.
Commissioned by Sacred Heart Jesuit Church in Budapest, the room is used as a space for children to play during holy mass services.
Measuring just 12 square metres, the narrow space is filled wall-to-wall with modular foam blocks where the children can climb, sit and store their toys.

The room is located on the church's southern aisle and formerly served as just a storage area. It featured a high vaulted ceiling, black granite cladding and an uneven floor.
Budapest-based practice PRTZN Architecture was tasked with transforming the unwelcoming room into a child-friendly area that respects the church's existing architecture, lending the project its name of Play in Sacral Spaces.
"When we came into contact with the leadership of the church in 2018, the space had already been functioning as a playroom for one year, though it was furnished in quite an ad-hoc way with old, worn-out pieces of furniture," said Péter Müllner, who founded the practice in 2013 with Gergely Hory and Zoltán Major.
"The leadership commissioned us to enhance the quality of this space in order to serve the needs of its users better, and adapt it to the historic architectural environment of the church which opened in 1909."

The practice outlined three key issues that needed to be resolved. The first and greatest challenge was the room's narrow dimensions, w...