Research projects

MILD HOME (My Modular, Intelligent, Low cost, Do it yourself, nearly zero energy House for our Eco Green Village) – SEE/D/0201/2.4X

• Period: 2012.10.01-2014.09.30.
• Financed by: the European Union (SEE program) (85%) and the Hungarian State (15%)
• Total budget: 1 674 178,22 EUR
• Project leader: Dr. Tamás Czigány DLA, associate professor, +36 96 613-518, tamas##kukac##czita.hu.

The main subject of the research:

MILD HOME is a project co-funded by the European Union under the South East Europe - Transnational Cooperation Programme 2007-2013. The project aims at defining the modalities of design and triggering the construction of a new typology of the civil building, called MILD HOME.

Its main characteristics are the following:

On the energy-environmental level: zero emissions, low energy consumption, passive house, made with recyclable materials. The MILD HOME is conceived to be situated in an Eco Green Village with zero emissions, a sustainable waste and water management and promoting a responsible and environmentally aware lifestyle;

On the economic sustainability level: low construction cost (thanks to the organization of local supply-chains, modularity, specific design patterns and standardization of raw materials, DIY - Do-it-Yourself - option for internal finishing construction) and low operating cost.

The innovative aspect of the project MILD HOME is combined in 2 factors: the realization of a high energy performance house, with affordable building and operating expenses for low-middle income people who aspire to have a new house at affordable costs.

MILD HOME aims at boosting the sustainable development of such buildings at the EU level, proving that it is possible to build sustainable Eco Green Villages based on MILD HOMEs for everyone in South-East Europe countries.

Architecture of Totalitarian Regimes in Urban Managements - ATRIUM

The Architecture of Totalitarian Regimes in Urban Managements is an ambitious project, which aims to put into greater focus a key element of twentieth-century European history, heritage and memory.
ATRIUM is ambitious in its scope but also in the extent and nature of the partnership. The project is made up of 18 partners from the area of south-east Europe, from university departments and national ministries, to governmental organisations and city administrations, bringing different skills and experiences to the project. The partners come from 11 different countries (Italy, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Roumania, Croatia, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Greece), which share a desire to focus on the architectural heritage of the different totalitarian regimes, which they have experienced in the twentieth century from a cultural and historical point of view. One of the key objectives of the financing of European projects is that of encouraging a shared view of historical and cultural identity. The broad nature of the partnership is an example of a common recognition of the importance of twentieth-century architectural heritage and its complex, contradictory and sometimes uncomfortable relation to certain periods of European history.

Participants from the Department of Urbanism and Architectural History: Tibor Kuslits assistant professor, Prof. Dr. Gábor Winkler DSc., full professor, Dr. András Veöreös PhD, associate professor.