Project Size:  70,000 Square Feet

Narrative: Our goal for the House of Music was to embrace the site and program in order to create a building with a meaningful experience to its context.

The existing built area of the old Hungarian Expo building is used to place the majority of the program creating a 5-story building that engages with the rest of the park, providing views to the north and creating a prominent second entrance on the north east side of the site. Once inside, the user is immediately engaged by an interior courtyard that creates a procession to a gentle ramp upwards towards the public spaces of the museum. On the second level we connect the museum learning with the temporary exhibit, this allows for presentations in the lecture room by artists that are exhibiting in the temporary exhibit space, allowing the HHM to have exciting functions related to the museum learning. The administration offices are set on the fourth level creating spaces that are filled with natural light and great views of the park.

The courtyards also provide sustainable aspects through the incorporation of natural light while reducing heat loss through the placement of thermal mass walls. The roofs serve as a water collection system which recycles and minimizes the use of artificial lighting at the new Hungarian House of Music.