Ethnography Museum

The design reimagined the museum experience by breaking away from conventional horizontal stratification, instead creating a network of cracks and gaps that allow urban flows and art views to permeate throughout the building. Drawing inspiration from Hungarian folk traditions, the design featured a metaphorical "furnace" at its core - a fluid public plaza and vertical circulation space that served as the beating heart of the museum. This approach balanced contemporary architectural expression with traditional elements, creating intuitive navigation through organically flowing spaces while maintaining efficient programmatic organization.

We developed comprehensive exterior and interior visualizations that captured the building's distinctive angular form and earthy materiality, highlighting how it would contrast with yet complement the surrounding park environment. Our night renderings emphasized the dramatic effect of the glazed roof canopy illuminating the central atrium space. Through detailed photo integrations, we demonstrated how the museum would transform the existing parking area into a vibrant promenade with unified landscaping. Our visualizations effectively communicated the building's unique spatial relationships, showing how daylight would flow through skylights between galleries and into the exhibition spaces below.