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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. Opusztaszer Visitor Center in Hungary by Ivanka Factory & Design ServicesMarch 16th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Ivanka Factory & Design Services OPUSTERRA PANEL was created with a very specific design intent – to create a PANEL that resembles being pulled out from the ground in one, swift move, evoking earthiness, natural aesthetics, and ancient materiality. This development aimed to create a unique, qualitative architecture with a new and multifunctional visitor center. The architectural work was lead by István MURKA, who reflects to the local traditions in this work. This bipolar building is closely tied to the materials using and the traditional construction solutions of this area. The process involved developing a unique manufacturing process, where the high-tech material of IVANKA is applied by hand into a specialized cast, and the result is a PANEL that is never the same as any other. The PANELS are more than 3 meters long. The resulting surface of the large format is naturally raw, aggregate-revealing, shows ample aggregates, and is reminiscent of the layers of the soil as it emerges from the deep.  Image Courtesy © Tibor Zsitva
 Image Courtesy © Tibor Zsitva On the building area that features solid block walling, an „earthconcrete” facade PANEL was utilized, which reflects on the unique heritage of building with clay and compacted earth, and utilizing manual labour in the architectural traditions of the South-Alföld region. IVANKA was called upon to collaborate on the development of the honed surface of the concrete facade PANELS. The thin concrete slabs feature designed spotting and strands of colour, but the originally material-coloured, raw-surface panel was eventually painted by the contractor.  Image Courtesy © Tibor Zsitva Concrete’s robustness is accompanied with an active force that expresses the material’s contradictory states of fluidity and cast solidity. Concrete construction projects are antistatic, can be define d as a shot of fluid in motion. Concrete’s plastic characteristics – from fluid to solid, allowing the production of complex forms – combined with its mass and resilience make ’free’ transformations possible while efficiently resolving structural and physical demands.  Image Courtesy © Tibor Zsitva ABOUT IVANKA IVANKA, founded by Katalin Ivanka and Andras Ivanka in 2002 as a Budapest based start-up company, has become a leading architectural and designer concrete brand renowned for its progressive design and technological solutions with concrete. Since its inception, IVANKA has made a name for adding a design perspective to what is otherwise widely viewed as an industrial material. They have taken concrete and elevated the material to a new level, creating products that defy normal concrete capacities and rock today’s conventional image of this material.  Image Courtesy © Tibor Zsitva  Image Courtesy © Tibor Zsitva
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