Suburbia Centre
The starting point for the thesis was the development dilemma arising from local and regional conflicts in the suburbanisation process. The growth of agglomeration settlements leads to unsustainable land use and, due to infrastructure deficits, creates segregation of functions and unlivable regions, instead of creating sub-centres that would relieve the pressure on the capital. Érd is a dormitory town of 70,000 inhabitants, located in the southern sector of the Budapest agglomeration. Since the 20th century, when the northern part of the settlement was parcelled up, it has been struggling with infrastructure and functional deficiencies: missing cycling and pedestrian infrastructure, and lack of educational, community, cultural and recreational functions for which a large proportion of the population commutes.
The diploma project responds to the local conflicts of Érd with a three-scale intervention. By connecting the zones and green spaces of a city fragmented by the regional transport infrastructure with a green corridor that encourages internal pedestrian and cycling movement in a dispersed city. The green infrastructure reuses existing elements such as the highway underpass, the railway protection zone and the underused late modern buildings of the City Centre. The green route creates an agora of public functions that is currently missing, organically linking it to the existing public space network.
model photos: Bertalan Bessenyey