Rocks Cabins Hungary, Balaton Uplands Building Project, Hungarian Real Estate Development, Architecture Photos
Rocks Cabins in Balaton Uplands Hungary
9 Aug 2022
Architecture: Hello Wood Zrt.
Location: Balaton Uplands, Hungary

Photos: Bujnovszky Tamas
Rocks Cabins, Hungary
Rocks on the High Plains ? Treehouses Kapolcs
The design cabins of Hello Wood and TreeHouses were built in a hidden corner of the Balaton Uplands

Resolving the problems of the shrinking, ageing population of villages with few job opportunities is one of the challenges Hungary needs to tackle. The development of tourism in rural, peripheral areas, attracting visitors, creating jobs for local people and boosting the local economy can be key to this issue.
Hello Wood has always been interested in contributing to local communities through architecture and the built environment; its education programme focuses on improving the quality of life of people living in small villages in Hungary, involving locals in their projects, and listening to their needs. In 2016, as part of its educational activities, the studio purchased a 2-hectare plot of land in the breathtaking Balaton Uplands as the venue for Hello Wood’s international summer school and festival.

Surrounded by rolling hills and close to Kapolcs, flocks of a nearby farmstead had been feeding in Csóromfölde for centuries. The programme of Hello Wood has breathed new life into the old settlement: even a temporary village was constructed by archit...