Sumit Singhal Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.
Reconstruction and expansion of Mill Kopácsy in Veszprém, Hungary by Veszprémi Építész Műhely
January 22nd, 2015 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Veszprémi Építész Műhely
Mill Kopácsy is located at the most beautiful area of Veszprém, in the valley of stream Séd.
1.The history of the building’s architecture
Where the current mill takes its place there probably had been one already in the middle ages.
The first report that proves the earliest existence of the mill is from 1765, which we found in the protocol of the city, Veszprém. There is also a note about the building in a fifteen years younger map. We also know that its name was already Kopácsy in the 1830’s, and that it had three water-wheels. There is also a map from 1857 which contains the mill, but the L figured building does not have yet some parts we know nowadays, because they were built later on. In the 1950s the building was socialized and private homes were settled in the main building and the outhouses as well. Then, in the 1980’s, the building was used as a tailoring and as a locker. Because the appliances were heavy, the wooden frame was enforced with steel, so that it became strong enough. After the tailoring had been given up the building was standing being empty and rusty for a pretty long term.
The building’s frontage which faces the street is classicist. The other fronts of it are simple plastered walls, with some scattered windows on them, and the building has the signs that it was rebuilt more times.
2.Reconstruction and expansion
The new owner of the building planned to run it as a hotel and he also wanted to build some apartment-houses to it. The current layout of the area goes by the grown zone. The each buildings are in different distances from each other and that makes exciting and intimate interiors in the yard. Right next to the parcel there is a huge green area, with the Bishops resting pavilion in it.
Thanks to the reconstructions the building of the mill is an appropriate place for different kinds of occasions. In the hotel, on the floor ground there is a event room, a pub and a brewery, the guestrooms take place on the first floor and in the attic.
As we decided to keep the characteristics of the mill, we placed the entrance to the middle of the building facing the Séd stream (the event room is on the right of the entrance, and the pub is on its left), we kept the saloon two level high, and the doorway on the corner of the building. We also reconstructed windows on the first floor, which had been found During the artistic research, and the wooden ceiling of the pub, which brings a nice atmosphere to the room. In the walls of the hall we found the axis of the wheels, so we made them be visible. In the hall and in the pub the walls are unpainted so the brickwork is visible as well as the wheels. As we could save the most of the original roofing which looks quite tarnished, we also kept it, and made it visible.
There are two new apartment houses which together contain six apartments with balconies facing the castle. There is a panorama balcony on the top of one of the apartment houses from where you can see the park, the castle and the bishop’s resting pavilion. On the houses facades there are wooden louvers before the glass walls, what made the apartments more intimate and safer. The apartment houses go with the mill thanks to their simplicity and white colour.
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