The faculty of visual arts and music was established in the University of Pécs in 1996, without the existence of the appropriate infrastructural needs. For it's proper use in the future, a compact, well-functioning Campus is needed. This complex should give space for the visual arts and music, as well as media-arts and all additional activities connected to arts education. The plans of the new campus serves all needs of education, therefore classrooms, ateliers and studios, auditoriums and exhibition-halls, musical practice-rooms and auditoriums, all additional public spaces, and the complex's technical and service rooms are all included.



The plot is an ideal site, regarding its situation in the city and the urban links within. The basic reference of the design was the fact, that both visual arts and music are allegorical disciplines .

The idea of the scheme refers to focus, its keyword is the garden, where the different buildings have substantial role. Only the necessary items are above ground, in a clear, well defined relation between each-other. To make a clear situation and hierarchy on the currently built-up plot, we only kept the head-building and the dormitory. To extend the set-up, we created a pedestal which works as a frame, and two new unique volumes.



The head-building's allegorical value is it's institutional use, therefore we filled it up with all the administrational functions required. Going through the building we enter the garden, where the concert-hall opens up -a band-stand in the garden- fitting itself to the symbolism of the layout. The opening of the head-building's existing basement becomes the entrance of the campus's educational part. Passing under the building we find ourselves in the core of the institute -the living space of education. The hall, an arts gallery and the classrooms of the visual arts faculty are placed here, and this pedestal links to the faculty of music and the ateliers of the DLA course. Classrooms of the visual arts faculty are placed in raster, in one level - partly underground, covered with green-roof- one-by-one gathered around atriums. Classrooms of the music faculty are in the top of the concert-hall, placed around the loft of the double-storey high hallway in the middle, creating a perspicuous unit. The DLA ateliers are in an individual house at the back of the site.



Although all items have individual floorplans, their value is created by their situation and meanings in the proper system. The components have a wide sensual field: it feeds itself upon historical, consensual and associational fields. The head-building is renewed to its original stage, with the demolition of the third floor -the status quo of it's history- cleaned, whitened, without it's functional allusions. The cover of the roof is glazed white tile, walls are painted white. The existing dormitory gets additional isolation, and covered with grey aluminum panels. The house of music is a dark wooden instrument, a magic-box. The two outer facades are all-changing cultural mega-posters, which communicate the happenings of the campus towards the city. The bluish black glass-box of the DLA-building on the northern side creates an emphatic closing, with it's mirror-like reflections.