Each year, the magazine asks 30 studios to create a design based on loose guidelines. This year, the studios were invited to divide their projects between the urban and the rural without losing sight of economic and environmental concerns.

 

sporaarchitects’ submission, called Weekend-City, was “designed to counter Budapest's proliferation of courtyard-centric dwellings and meagre apartments” and “combines the benefits of metropolitan and rural life,” sporaarchictects said. “It would create a vertical village with criss-crossing terraces and gardens connected to each flat, while the apartments are overrun by plants and everyone would have a small garden to grow fruit and vegetables.”

 

Metro4

Budapest-based sporaarchitects is a multi-disciplinary practice, set up in 2002 and currently at work on the city's Metro4 underground line. The four partners are all in their late 30s and early 40s, and have wide-ranging experience in architecture, urbanism and development. Tibor Dékány, Sándor Finta, Ádám Hatvani and Orsolya Vadász are all graduates from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME).

 

“At the core of our architecture is the ability to take a fresh look at things through experienced eyes,” say sporaarchitects.