Kardos Orsolya Gabriella

Architecture MA
supervisor
Marián Balázs
masterwork consultant
Bene Tamás
masterwork opponent
Guba Sándor
thesis consultant
Szarvas Márton
thesis opponent
Vígvári András
masterwork

Landscape Management in Mocsáros

The Mocsárosdűlő area has heterogeneous characteristics, and this is where the Mocsáros nature conservation area, the last wetland on the Buda side, is located. On this seminatural pocket area, currently there is overgrazing and cultivation that restricts its public use. The new land use programme of the Landscape Management complements the future habitat rehabilitation project, and manages this transitional landscape in Mocsáros with a holistic approach, so that, due to is location within the city, it can become a place for material-centred science classes, filling a gap in public education. The underutilised industrial hall once used by a printing company is converted into a community workshop and a reuse centre that will clean up the area, while the Aquincum civil amphitheatre is brought back to life by a farmer’s market and a café. An educational farm that cultivates the Mocsáros area and presents sustainable grazing and crop production practices is placed in the inner part of the area, providing an alternative venue for science lessons for schoolchildren in Óbuda and Budapest.
thesis

Pocket areas

Semi-peripheral pocket areas with alternative land use

In my thesis I explore semi-peripheral, enclosed, urban, loosely defined pocket areas that behave very differently from their environment: due to a lack of planned management and neglect, these areas are still semi-natural, have a distinctive atmosphere and offer an opportunity for alternative land use. I try to identify the factors that contribute to the preservation of these pocket areas, explore their characteristics and their built and natural environment, and the activities that can be pursued there. In the second part of my thesis, I present my own case study of an existing area in Budapest, Mocsárosdűlő, where I examine this specific state of the space. First I describe the methods, then I present the research results both in textual and in visual forms.