Wooden House designed by András Varsányi + Péter Pozsár + Norbert Vas, Modern design can often fly in the face of the traditional values of the past. In some cases, it can aim to improve by ignoring the needs and concerns that we once had, but this architectural design in Hungary shows that – for home structures, at least – those same values are just as important now as they ever were. Having won the audience?s vote at the Media Architecture Awards, it’s clear this is a value that modern homeowners are considering.
Photography: Tamas Bujnovszky
In the small village of Algy? in the Great Hungarian Plain, this project took the classic cross-section and layout of a traditional Hungarian farmstead and reconstructed it with a modern eye, replacing an old farmhouse that previously stood on the site. With the surrounding area suffering from depopulation due to global and national changes in the needs of agriculture, it was important that the project maintain the traditional values of such a building but with more contemporary needs. Photography: Tamas Bujnovszky
As a result, the most iconic aspect of the project is the central courtyard of the building, which is enclosed by its three sides to create an intimate setting among the trees of the surrounding acacia forest. The various modernized elements take aspects that were no longer needed from a traditional farmstead, and repurposed their use; what once would have been stalls to store animals or maize are n...