Öböl XI is an urban development project for an empty space in a privileged location in the city of Budapest. It is situated on the west bank of the River Danube, and in the 19th and early 20th centuries was a major industrial site.
Risco has been commissioned to draw up an urban design that complies with the Subdivision Plan for the area. This Plan has already been approved by the local authority and establishes a number of urbanistic parameters and the rules governing building locations and layouts.
Our solution structures the area around a central park and two perpendicular axes that link the most important buildings and public spaces.
The Master Plan proposes urban typologies with the ability to ensure quality in an area with high construction ratios. It uses a scheme in which the perimeter is occupied in a way that accentuates the boundaries between the street and the area around people’s homes – between the public area and the private space – thereby avoiding any uncharacteristic, left-over spaces.
It sets architectural design rules in an attempt to exercise some control over the diversity that comes from having designs by different architects.
It also provides for a variety of public spaces on the edges of the intervention area, thereby qualifying the latter’s integration into the rest of the city.
Öböl XI Masterplan
Location
Budapest, Hungary
Client
Öböl XI
Date
2007 – ...
Architecture and Urban Design
Tomás Salgado, Nuno Lourenço and Carlos Cruz with NPK
Site Area
34,8 ha
Build Area
579.894 m2
