3 Stories is an apartment converted from a most unusual structure to a contemporary living space.

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Architects: GASPARBONTA

Location: Budapest, Hungary

Architect In Charge: Gaspar Bonta

Assistant Designer: Orsolya L?rincz

Area: 128.0 m2

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Bálint Jaksa Photography

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From the architect. 3 Stories is an apartment converted from a most unusual structure to a contemporary living space.

© Bálint Jaksa Photography

'I highly doubt, that this apartment can be turned into a decent home' - said a close relative of the owner, seconds after we first saw this place. I hardly agreed. I loved it. Luckily, the owner - a great innovator, a friend and a fellow dino enthusiast - and I were on the same page about the outcome. This was one of the most complicated structures, I have ever seen, covered by numerous layers of human history and unwanted building materials. We had to take the long road and uncover this beauty and turn it to a contemporary home.
© Bálint Jaksa Photography

© Bálint Jaksa Photography

Having three stories with one entrance simplifies the question of public and private spaces, naturally the first story became the public zone with the entrance-lobby-kitchen-dining room combo. Since one of the main attractions of the apartment ...