WET Innovation Centre

Pilisszentiván, Hungary
Photo © Andrea Haider
Photo © Andrea Haider
Photo © Andrea Haider
Photo © Andrea Haider
Photo © Andrea Haider
Photo © Andrea Haider
Architects
Földes Architects
Location
Pilisszentiván, Hungary
Year
2002

Architects
László Földes
László Pethő
 
Collaborators
Csaba Bukta
Veronika Fülöp
Lívia Klimaj
Ádám Schiller
 
General Constructor
Geon LTD.


The realization of the Innovational Building meant the crowning of a long planning and building period which lasted for years. The Hungarian factory of the German W.E.T. Automotive Systems started with fifty workers. Throughout the years it grew into a more than one-thousand-worker-factory. The extend of production needed the completion of one new producing and storage hall each year. Due to the successful management, the management staff in Germany decided to bring the innovative-researches to Hungary, as well. This is how the idea of the Innovational Building was born.


 


The space structure of the Innovational Building can be divided into three narrow zones. The first zone is made up of the offices placed on three stores. The elegant passageway is connected to this part with bridges and skylights. Then follows the zone of the service rooms- the meeting rooms, the kitchenettes and bathrooms can be found here. The 550 m2 test plant is connected to the service zone. The double-layered climate-façade constructed on the street-side façade heats the building during wintertime while cools down inner parts during the summer. The building won the Architectural Prize of the journal Figyelő in 2003 and the Pro Architectura Prize in 2004.

Related Projects

  • Mensa Berufsschule Ziegelbrücke
    Soliman Zurkirchen Architekten
  • Gebäudeadaptierungen Rathausbereich - Zwentendorf
    maul-architekten zt gmbh
  • FON - Housing and Kindergarten Fontanastrasse
    GERNER GERNER PLUS
  • GOLD - Housing Goldberg
    GERNER GERNER PLUS
  • BENE - Housing Benedikt
    GERNER GERNER PLUS

Magazine

Other Projects by Földes Architects

The Iron Porch House
Nagykovácsi, Hungary
The Walnut Tree House
Pilisborosjenő, Hungary
Almásy Castle
Gyula, Hungary
Sauflon Centre of Innovation
Gyál, Hungary
The L House
Komárom-Esztergom County, Hungary