Strategies for Suburban Melancholia - S.M. House
The commission was for a building for a commuting family in a suburban village near Budapest, but the assignment also required responses to the melancholic suburban isolation and diffuse environment.
The bunker-like, concrete cubic house, reduced to a more and more compact size during the design process, has a very simple layout: on one side a large living space, on the other a shifted two story part, with bedrooms above and a garage and a boulder room below. In the middle, a skylit central stair and study space connects the functions. The focused structure provides a calm and sober environment, escaping from the everyday life noise.
S.M. house / Biatorbágy, Hungary, EU / 210 sqm / 2013 / Private commission
