Monori Center

The designers envisage that the towers of different heights (residential towers: 37.25 m, student hostel: 58.85 m) will enrich the urban landscape with their playful silhouette, becoming a symbol of the district.

The planning location is the area of the X. district of Budapest, bounded by Kőbányai út, Mázsa utca, Bihari utca, Jegenye utca and Monori utca, where currently most of the ground floor + 1 storey, predominantly small and wholesale, catering establishments are located.

According to the functions defined in the design programme, the two-storey-high closed-row horizontal “flat” part of the building on the ground floor will house the future commercial, service and catering functions, and from these will grow the towers housing the residential and student accommodation functions.

The urban development plan of the capital allows for the construction of high-rise buildings up to 65 m in height, so the residential buildings and the student hostel will be built in three towers. The designers envisage that the towers of different heights (residential towers: 37.25 m, student hostel: 58.85 m) will enrich the urban landscape with their playful silhouette, becoming a symbol of the district.

By rethinking and reorganising the circulation of the inner courtyard, and by calming the traffic in the courtyard, it was possible to create a coherent protected “green island” and pedestrian promenade.

The height of the towers varies “organically”, recalling the silhouette of the Buda hills in the distance. The rounded shapes give the large masses a more welcoming character, enhanced by the playfully undulating facade. The flatter “flattened” parts of the building are transformed into intense green roofs, communal and private gardens and terraces, providing residents and students alike with a place to relax and unwind.

The student residence will include a café, common areas and administration, with 182 rooms on the upper floors. The top two floors of the residence tower will have a wellness gym with rooftop terraces and a roof garden.

The residential towers will have 3 to 3 office units per tower and 1 community space for the residents. A total of 101 apartments will be completed in the two towers, with duplex penthouses on the upper floors with private green roofs and gardens.

Underground garage

In the planning area, 3 floors of underground parking will be built below ground level, on the site of the old working pit, and 1 floor of underground parking will be built on the rest of the built-up area, providing the necessary parking spaces for the new uses within the building.

Trade, services and hospitality

At street level, a two-storey (ground floor + gallery) commercial, service and hospitality function of 8,665 sqm (net) will be created, the building mass of which, as a large flat-roofed block, will be in scale with the mass and volume of the surrounding existing commercial and hospitality buildings.