Course Contents
[b]UDVARHÁZAK
BUDAPESTER HÖFE[/b]
In the ongoing search for density, housing quality, and community-oriented architecture, the Udvarházak, Budapest's characteristic courtyard houses, are to be further developed. The urban fabric of deep plots with perimeter block developments and sequential inner courtyards is exemplary of the urban densification strategies in the wake of accelerated urbanization following the unification of Buda, Pest, and Óbuda. Characteristic features are the pawlatschen, open, surrounding access balconies that span a network of movement and encounter, unfolding in vertical and horizontal sequences and forming a spatial continuum between privacy and public life, between retreat and exchange.
In the seventh district, a densely populated, historically diverse neighborhood in the heart of the city, the completion of a fragmented block will continue the courtyard house as an archetypal form of dense, communal living and urban identity in the face of contemporary challenges, discovering its social and atmospheric potential while seeking strategies for further construction beyond the dichotomy of yesterday and tomorrow.
The reactivation of these deep urban spaces demand for balance, poetic dialogue, and respectful superimposition and complementation of different historical layers. The present must be conceived from the past; characterful and diverse spaces must be developed from the interfaces, transitions, and architectural interstices, so that new emerges as a whole. The starting point is the multi-layered traces that must be carefully and courageously transcended through contextual interpretation and supplemented and expanded in a meaningful, independent, and contemporary way. In the debate about appropriate mass, scale, and materiality, the fundamental questions of architecture—space, structure, material—must be answered and, in particular, the threshold areas and relationships between the different uses must be developed.
Examples should be found for the diminishing strict opposition between living and working, working time and leisure time, as technological developments are making professional work more individualized, more flexible in terms of time, and less bound by physical boundaries. Beyond the shell of the dwelling, the community, the living environment, and open spaces must also be considered in terms of content and architecture.
Further Information
Kickoff: October 15th, 2025, 2 p.m. - L3|01 R370
Weekly Meetings Wednesdays 2 – 6 p.m.
Additional Information
https://www.ebk.architektur.tu-darmstadt.de
Online Offerings
Moodle
[b]UDVARHÁZAK
BUDAPESTER HÖFE[/b]
In the ongoing search for density, housing quality, and community-oriented architecture, the Udvarházak, Budapest's characteristic courtyard houses, are to be further developed. The urban fabric of deep plots with perimeter block developments and sequential inner courtyards is exemplary of the urban densification strategies in the wake of accelerated urbanization following the unification of Buda, Pest, and Óbuda. Characteristic features are the pawlatschen, open, surrounding access balconies that span a network of movement and encounter, unfolding in vertical and horizontal sequences and forming a spatial continuum between privacy and public life, between retreat and exchange.
In the seventh district, a densely populated, historically diverse neighborhood in the heart of the city, the completion of a fragmented block will continue the courtyard house as an archetypal form of dense, communal living and urban identity in the face of contemporary challenges, discovering its social and atmospheric potential while seeking strategies for further construction beyond the dichotomy of yesterday and tomorrow.
The reactivation of these deep urban spaces demand for balance, poetic dialogue, and respectful superimposition and complementation of different historical layers. The present must be conceived from the past; characterful and diverse spaces must be developed from the interfaces, transitions, and architectural interstices, so that new emerges as a whole. The starting point is the multi-layered traces that must be carefully and courageously transcended through contextual interpretation and supplemented and expanded in a meaningful, independent, and contemporary way. In the debate about appropriate mass, scale, and materiality, the fundamental questions of architecture—space, structure, material—must be answered and, in particular, the threshold areas and relationships between the different uses must be developed.
Examples should be found for the diminishing strict opposition between living and working, working time and leisure time, as technological developments are making professional work more individualized, more flexible in terms of time, and less bound by physical boundaries. Beyond the shell of the dwelling, the community, the living environment, and open spaces must also be considered in terms of content and architecture.
Further Information
Kickoff: October 15th, 2025, 2 p.m. - L3|01 R370
Weekly Meetings Wednesdays 2 – 6 p.m.
Additional Information
https://www.ebk.architektur.tu-darmstadt.de
Online Offerings
Moodle
- Lecturer: Christian Peter Brönner
- Lecturer: Clemens Hoyer
- Lecturer: Nelly Meyer
- Lecturer: Ulrich Müller
- Lecturer: Maximilian Nohe
- Lecturer: Felix Waechter
Semester: WT 2025/26
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