New Museum of Transport

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Budapest Hungary
Carta - Reichen et Robert Associates - New Museum of Transport

Creation of the new Museum of Transport in Budapest with redevelopment of existing buildings and construction of new buildings on a former industrial rail yard.

Our proposal for the new Transport Museum in Budapest emerged from an assertive position: express and magnify the genius loci of the site of the former railway repair and maintenance sheds by preserving the existing buildings and their structure, taken at the scale of the architectural ensemble they comprise, in as complete a form as possible.

So, beyond the emblematic buildings such as the Diesel Hall, the Head Office Building and the Shelter, the same selection criterion – a very simple one – was applied to all the buildings existing on the site: no building was to be demolished unless a technical, economic or architectural constraint of the project required it.


Competitions : 2019

PROJECT OWNER
Hungarian Museum of Transport

PROJECT SUPERVISION
Architects: 
Reichen et Robert & Associés, lead consultant
PLANT Atelier Peter Kis
Scenographer: Ralph Appelbaum Associates
Technical Design Office, all trades: FACEA

PROJECTED BUDGET: €95 M excluding tax

AREAS 
45,824 m² floor area with 14,268 m² of exhibition space
6,073 m² of reception spaces, conference hall, restaurant and shop
13,433 m² of storage space
3,037 m² of artefact restoration workshops
6,244 m² of archives
2,769 m² floor area, offices

CREDITS
Perspectives : Platform

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