Did we guess how quickly we can switch from the way we went to university a few years ago, to virtual classrooms, and then back? How will we learn, teach, and research in a few years, when the new campus of the Károli Gáspár Reformed University will be built? What new methods will there be in education? Why will it be important to be there in person? What new types of spaces will be needed for the new type of presence? We are not sure that we can answer these questions… We are also not sure that we know what we don’t know…

The ability to renew itself, rooted in tradition, is an important core value of the Reformed Church. Adaptability to future circumstances is the basic principle of our architectural concept. The spaces with more rigid structural requirements and more technologically demanding functions, such as the sports hall and the auditoriums, were placed on the lower floors and inside the building, like a massive plinth. The mass of the less rigid spaces for students and teachers was placed on this.

The basis of its operation is a clean supporting structure with sustainable material use, rational construction, and a matching, homogeneous infrastructure grid. This system is easily accessible, developable, and can flexibly adapt to unforeseen or planned functional changes, and is therefore always up-to-date. Less construction and recycling are perhaps the most important forms of sustainability. Durability and adaptability are the basic conditions for designing for a long lifespan.