masterwork
Old-New Cooperative
My masterwork aims to create a reimagined cooperative structure that ensures market access for rural farmers and producers. The institution is a community space that includes a marketplace and trading area, a café, office spaces, as well as educational and workshop spaces. These functions will be housed in an existing building in the town centre, whose redesign process aligns the building's character and its associated spaces with the architectural image of a Székely village and the needs of the local community. The surrounding spaces are active elements of the composition, where the market and the spacious, well-organised paved areas can be seen as part of the building's functions, forming an operational unit together.
thesis
Survival Alternative
Traditional and contemporary self-sustaining systems
The thesis examines traditional and contemporary self-sustaining systems. By comparing these systems and examining their functioning, we can gather extensive knowledge about the factors and conditions that enable us to devise alternative and sustainable forms of community collaboration in the age of ecological crisis. The thesis examines the historical background behind Szeklerland's rural agriculture and way of life, exploring the associated moral and ethical principles, as well as the positive and negative aspects of communal functioning and cultural practices. The subsequent parts of the thesis exemplify the efforts of contemporary self-sustaining systems in Hungary, which consider the consumerism and technological optimism of mass societies as unsustainable ways of life. Instead, they withdraw from those systems and create their own eco-communities. From the perspective of the ecological crisis and the human ecology, I consider the establishment of institutional forms of networking as a possible solution and autonomous economic strategy.
