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

• Architects: Ivanka Factory & Design Services (István MURKA)
• Project: Opusztaszer Visitor Center
• Location: Opusztaszer, Hungary
• Photography: Tibor Zsitva
• Specified IVANKA product: highly customized facade PANELS
• Related services: design and engineering services, project management, research and development, technological innovation, customized factory production, packaging, delivery, installation
• Highlighted features: custom colour development, surface development of aggregate revealing extra raw, layered concrete texture, 3+ meters long large format panels, engineered to Halfen fixing system
• Concrete in numbers: 3500 sqm surface area
• Year: 2015

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