Gold Architecture, Building and Structure Design · 2021
Mome Campus
- A' Design Award 2021 Gold Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Awarded April 15, 2021
- CLIENT: 3h Architects
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 31,524
- Verification code 94E4234600 · Verify this award
About Mome Campus
MOME is a university campus designed for art and design education. The campus consists of three buildings, named Base, Master and Up. The suspended structure of Base allows flexible use of each floor, with floor slabs held by a triple steel core suspended from post-tensioned concrete beams. Up is covered by a double-shell glass lamella system that provides shading and natural ventilation. In Master, the inner walls were replaced with soundproof glass walls. The gross built area is 15,851 square meters.
3h Architects Ltd.'s MOME Campus represents a distinguished contribution to contemporary educational architecture, exemplifying the refined material sensibilities and spatial sophistication that characterize twenty-first century institutional design at its most accomplished. The composition demonstrates masterful command of bilateral symmetry, deploying twin translucent volumes that frame a central glazed connector with the precision of a carefully orchestrated architectural proposition, creating a threshold experience that transforms approach into procession and entry into ceremony. The facade system merits particular attention for its innovative deployment of semi-transparent polycarbonate cladding, which achieves a luminescent quality suggesting the work engages with phenomenological traditions exploring light as architectural material, the vertical ribbing establishing rhythmic variation while maintaining overall surface unity. One observes how the architects have calibrated transparency gradients with considerable sensitivity, allowing the connector bridge to read as fully transparent against the milky translucence of the flanking volumes, thereby establishing a clear visual hierarchy that privileges connection and passage. The chromatic restraint evident throughout, with its palette of whites and cool grays relieved only by the verdant landscape, suggests an institutional ethos valuing clarity, openness, and intellectual seriousness. The presence of a solitary figure traversing the elevated walkway introduces vital human scale while emphasizing the building's role as facilitator of movement, encounter, and exchange. Thematically, the work appears to explore tensions between monumentality and accessibility, between institutional permanence and permeable openness, inviting interpretation as an architectural metaphor for educational aspiration itself. How might visitors experience the transition from exterior lawn through the framed threshold into the luminous interior spaces beyond, and what does such spatial choreography suggest about the nature of learning environments?
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- The new campus is the manifestation of the university's advanced economic and educational model. The extended educational areas offer a studio-like teaching environment spatially revolutionizing the 21st century academic art practice. The building complex 'Base', 'Master' and 'Up' Innovation Centre brings forth a variety of unprecedented creative venues in the spirit of openness with the aim to provide such institutional spaces, which can stir the academic creation-process towards new waters.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Gross built area: 15.851 (m2)
- Tags
- campus, modernism, transparency, analogue, bauhaus, arts, university, innovation, hub, transformation
- Production Technology
- Building B, BASE’s floating essence comes form a tripple steel core reinforcement suspended from from post-tensioned monolithic concrete beams, and hold the edges of the floor slabs. UP’s most notable technical element is the double-shell glass lamella system, which next to its visual appeal also has a shading function and provides natural ventillation. The MASTER’s inner walls have been torn down and replaced with soundproof glass walls during the building’s modernization process.
- Design Challenge
- The biggest challenge was mapping the terrain conditions of the location and finding the right placement for the main entrance of the new campus, meanwhile ensuring the plans harmonize with the already existing modern villa-like buildings on the site.
- Project Duration
- The competition and call for submissions took place during October, 2015 for MOME University's stage 3 campus development. In the following January the results were announced, and the work begun after winning the competition: creating the concept, coming up with the construction plans and licensing. In the December of 2016 the planning phase closed and the construction took place between 2017-2019 June.
- Operation Flow
- The architectural design of the campus provides distinctive spatial solutions in each of the university’s three key buildings: the suspended structure of BASE maximizes the freedom to use different floors, and the horizontal and vertical transparency of building A encourages interdisciplinary dialogue. Meanwhile, the exterior of UP represents a new visual image for the university, and the interior provides a constant – and constantly changing – revelation.
- Research
- The main goal of this design was to create such a learning and working enviroment which revolutionizes the 21st century academic art practice. To accomplish this goal the architects were working hand in hand with the university staff while coming up with the plans, inventing inner spaces that serve as a transformable,stimulating background for creative activities. This included weekly consulatations and numerous hours spent on researching this new spatio-educational model.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration came from the person the university is named after, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, someone with an innovative, creative nature pushing artistic and technical boundaries - and through him, to the pioneering applied arts movement of the previous century, the Bauhaus. The fuel behind the design was to commemorate his oeuvres and significance as well as summoning a space which is to be the hotbed of contemporary artistic creation in Hungary.
- Image Credits
- Main Image #1: 1_3h_mome_0027_web.jpg/ Photographer Balazs Danyi 2020
Optional Image#1: 2_1V3A8849a.jpg/ Photographer Tamas Bujnovszky 2020
Optional Image#2: 3_3h_mome_9635_web.jpg/ Photographer Balazs Danyi 2020
Optional Image#3: 4_3h_mome_9791_web.jpg /Photographer Balazs Danyi 2020
Optional Image#4: 5_base_388.jpg/Photographer Balazs Danyi 2020 - Patents
- Copyrights belong to 3h Architects, 2019
Colors of Mome Campus
Get Mome Campus
Award-Winning Architectural Design Studio
We transform ambitious visions into award-winning architectural realities. Specializing in educational, commercial, and public buildings, our Budapest-based studio brings innovative spatial solutions and cutting-edge technical expertise to each project.
G0E23 Shop