ARCHITECTURAL FOCUS
The Museum of Ethnography is already recognized as one of the most exciting contemporary buildings on the continent .
Following an international design competition , successful construction , and completion in May 2022 , the Museum of Ethnography was finally given a new home in a truly modern building of an all-round world-class standard that will satisfy professional requirements , while catering to the needs of the collection and visitors alike .
NAPUR Architect Ltd . ( Lead Architect : Marcel FERENCZ ) won over an international jury with a project distinguished by a dynamic yet simple design that harmonizes with the natural environment of the park , while communicating with the urban texture of its surroundings . The gently curving lines enable the building to function as a gateway and a passage linking the city and the park . Sixty percent of the structure is under ground level and , thanks to the landscaped roof and the transparency of the sections above the ground , the new museum is adapted to its environment in its scale too . The grass-covered roof area will be a pleasant community space greeting visitors to Városliget .
The spectacular trademark of the building is the glass curtainwall surrounding the landscaped roof garden , reminiscent of two intertwined hillsides , with a unique characteristic consisting of nearly half a million pixels , a raster made by metal grid based on ethnographic motifs selected from the museum ’ s Hungarian and international collections . The pixels were inserted into a laser-cut aluminum grid by a special robot , with more than 2,000 attached to the building . The small cubes were made up of 20 Hungarian and 20 international contemporary reinterpretations of ethnographic motifs .
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