Hungarian Music House by Sou Fujimoto, for Budapest Museum Complex

The open, international design competition for the museum buildings to be built in the Városliget (City Park), to be completely renewed by 2018, has been closed.

Based on the decision of the 11-member jury of prominent Hungarian and foreign professionals, of the close to five hundred anonymous projects submitted to the competition, the Museum of Ethnography will be built based on the plans of Vallet de Martinis DIID architectes (French), the House of Hungarian Music based on the plans of Sou Fujimoto Architects (Japanese), while the FotoMuzeum Budapest and the Hungarian Museum of Architecture will be constructed based on the plans ofKözépülettervező Zártkörűen Működő Részvénytársaság (Hungarian).

Overview rendering. Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto. Imgae courtesy of Liget Budapest.

Sou Fujimoto Sou Fujimoto proposes a building with glass walls protected under great white canopy, a sound dome, with openings that allow the entry of uz and sustainable and partly remember us a giant mushroom. Large openings create lightwells, which at times have vegetation, and which will in some places continue through the floors. The music museum take the place of the former Hungexpo Offices that have been scheduled for demolition.

This February the Museum of Fine Arts and City Park Property Development Zrt. announced an open, international competition for the design of the five buildings to be built in City Park, the location of the biggest ongoing museum development project in Europe. Of the more than 470 designs submitted by the end of May 2014 deadline, 17 were selected for the second round and were evaluated by an 11-member jury of Hungarian and foreign museum and architectural professionals to find the winning designs and award-winners for the buildings-to-be of the Museum of Ethnography, the House of Hungarian Music, as well as the FotoMuzeum Budapest and the Hungarian House of Architecture.

“Thanks to this design competition, the museums to be built in the City Park will create a harmonious dialogue with the park and its built environment, representing outstanding architectural value for Budapest and all of Hungary, while catering to the collections and the visitors with their 21st-century functional solutions at a world standard,” said László Baán, Ministerial commissioner for the Liget Budapest Project.

WINNERS. Hungarian Music House

1st prize.- Sou Fujimoto Architects
2nd prize.- ARCVS Projektni biro
3rd prize.- AVA | Andrea Vattovani Architecture

Entrants awarded with the invitation fee without ranking

— Kengo Kuma and Associates,
— 3H ÉPÍTÉSZIRODA,
— KLAIR Architecture,

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Inside rendering. Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto. Imgae courtesy of Liget Budapest.

Forest of music. Plan roof level. Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto. Imgae courtesy of Liget Budapest.

Ground floor plan. Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto. Imgae courtesy of Liget Budapest.

Cafe Mezzanine Floor plan and Museum Learning & Offices first floor plan. Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto. Imgae courtesy of Liget Budapest.

Exhibition spaces, sound dome and artefact handling. B3 and B2 Basement plan. Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto. Imgae courtesy of Liget Budapest.

View form roof. Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto. Imgae courtesy of Liget Budapest.

Inside views. Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto. Imgae courtesy of Liget Budapest.

Section AA. Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto. Imgae courtesy of Liget Budapest.

Section DD and Section AA. Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto. Imgae courtesy of Liget Budapest.

Section BB. Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto. Imgae courtesy of Liget Budapest.

Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto. Imgae courtesy of Liget Budapest.

Winter view. Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto. Imgae courtesy of Liget Budapest.

Night vision. Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto. Imgae courtesy of Liget Budapest.

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SOU FUJIMOTO

Sou Fujimoto was born in Hokkaido, Japan on August 4, 1971. In 1994 he graduated in architecture at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo. He established his own architecture studio, the agency Sou Fujimoto Architects, in Tokyo in 2000, and since 2007 a professor at Kyoto University.

He was first noticed in 2005 when he won the prestigious AR – international Architectural Review Awards in the Young architect’s category, a prize that he garnered for three consecutive years, and the Top Prize in 2006.

In 2008, he was invited to jury these very AR Awards. The same year he won the JIA (Japan Institute of Architects) prize and the highest recognition from the World Architecture Festival, in the Private House section. In 2009, the magazine Wallpaper* accorded him their Design Award.  Sou Fujimoto published “Primitive Future” in 2008, the year’s best-selling architectural text. His architectural design, consistently searching for new forms and spaces between nature and artifice.

Sou Fujimoto became the youngest architect to design the annual summer pavilion for London’s Serpentine Gallery in 2013, and has won several awards, notably a Golden Lion for the Japan Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale and The Wall Street Journal Architecture Innovator Award in 2014.

Photographer: David Vintiner