Felcsút, 2009-2011
Management building and refectory (dining hall)
Architecture: Tamás Dobrosi
Interior design: Zsuzsanna Snopper
Wooden sculpture: Örs Barabássy Somogyi
Dormitory:
Senior architect: Imre Makovecz, Kossuth and Ybl Award winning architect
Interior design: Zsuzsanna Snopper
Wood carvings: Örs Barabássy Somogyi
An organic building is a particularly exciting challenge for an interior designer. “And now the task of organic architecture is also to transmit values that are comprehensible and acceptable to a lot of people” – said Francois Burkhardt, editor in chief of Domus. This value, which was the same for all members of the community, was most of all represented in folk art for centuries. Therefore it is self-explanatory to me that the modern, rewritten forms of natural and folk elements appear simultaneously in the interior of the building complex.
It is also natural to me that the building and the interior should appear as a unit, developing and affirming the architectural idea.
The natural forms that Hungarian organic architecture uses as models, the use of natural materials and the rewritten folk art shapes all serve the fundamental architectural concept as separate layers in this building complex. To F. L. Wright, “organic means intrinsic – in the philosophic sense, entity – wherever the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole.”
I simultaneously employ Hungarian organic ideas and Wrightean principles in designing the interiors of these organic buildings.
/Zsuzsanna Snopper/
Photography: Tamás Bujnovszky
