Press Release
3h Architects Ltd. Is Honored with the Golden A' Design Award for Mome Campus in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
3h Architects Ltd. acknowledged for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Mome Campus by 3h Architects Ltd., designed for 3h Architects, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Golden A' Design Award Explained
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
Regarding 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.
About 3h Architects Ltd.
3h architects is a Hungarian architectural office with European connections standing for an innovative and challenging architecture. Located in Budapest, 3h is challenged by working with clients who dare to be different. Specific, appropriate, open-minded and creating a bridge between innovation and tradition are the keywords of their direction in architecture, in continuous research and in any field beyond. Influenced by the cultural and historical context as well as by contemporary life, their aim is to develop architecture that reflects all characteristics of modern times.
Award Record
With this recognition, 3h Architects Ltd. is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award
The A' Architecture Design Award is an international architectural design competition recognizing good architectural designs by best architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to architectural design studios, building contractors, structural engineering firms and architecture and design consultants from all countries. Entries typically include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. Awarded architectural projects are published at https://designers.org/design-category/architecture
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/112910
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/112910
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!112910
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/289066
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://bit.ly/37cu4me
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Mome Campus
- Function
- Campus
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Dim Gray, Lavender, Light Gray, Gainsboro and Silver
- Images
- 5
- Client
- 3h Architects
The Recognition
- Laureate
- 3h Architects Ltd.
- Country
- Hungary
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #112910
Credits
- Team
- Katalin Csillag, Zsolt Gunther, Gábor Kállay,, Tamás Békesi, Ábel Bálint,, Balázs Baranyai,, Júlia Boromissza,, Ákos Dobrányi,, Ádám Farkas jr.,, Ádám Farkas,, Emese Galamb, and Dorottya Garay-Kiss, and others
- Image Credits
- Main; 1_3h_mome_0027_web.jpg/ Photographer Balazs Danyi 2020 Optional; 2_1V3A8849a.jpg/ Photographer Tamas Bujnovszky 2020 Optional; 3_3h_mome_9635_web.jpg/ Photographer Balazs Danyi 2020 Optional; 4_3h_mome_9791_web.jpg /Photographer Balazs Danyi 2020 Optional; 5_base_388.jpg/Photographer Balazs Danyi 2020
Design Details
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Realization and 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.
- Operation and Interaction
- 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.
- Project Duration and Location
- 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.
- Specifications
- Gross built area: 15.851 (m2)
- Keywords
- campus, modernism, transparency, analogue, bauhaus, arts, university, innovation, hub, transformation
