This little office-laboratory and reception building was made for the seed plant of SyngentaSeeds Kft. in Mezőtúr. The basic design concept was an introverted building which surroundsa quadratic courtyard. Our antitype was the world of courtyard houses — their open butclosed, intimate yet public, i.e. differentiated spaces, which seemed to be well-suited to fulfillthe spatial needs of a middle-sized research team. The wings surround the courtyard fromthree sides and they are connected by glass linking corridors. The mass shape, in accordancewith the basic concept, has an inward-sloping low-pitched roof. The intensity of the facadeopenings reflects the closed-from-the-outside yet open-to-the-courtyard vision. We designedan exposed concrete ceiling, reclaimed brick from Mezőtúr, titanium-zinc roof, wooden doorsand wooden panelling and glued wooden structures. Even though the construction plans werecompleted, our plan was not realized.
