
Külső-Kelenföld Reformed Church
invitational tender
Zoltán Berzsák, Eszter Balogh, Edit Monori-Szabó, Levente Puskás, Dorottya Szvák
Budapest, 11th district.
2024
"...and in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit..." /Ephesians 2:23/
We were strangers to each other, but in Jesus Christ we became close. We became a new people, a new community. Together we form the church, which represents Christ in the world. The church is built first and foremost in the heart! Compared to the start at Gellért Square, Bartók Béla Road ends in an undeserved manner. According to our plan, the end of the road will be closed by two towers, the tower of the new Reformed church next to the St. Gellért church. On the plot, which is designed as a public park, the mass of the building set back from the street addresses the incompleteness and deficiency of the neighboring rows of buildings. Its base is a brick "pedestal" that is completely open in the middle.
The exterior and interior spaces merge both visually and functionally. The superstructure covered with perforated elements on the pedestal combines the church, the community space, and the apartment—everything that represents the congregation. It is as if two strong hands are holding a delicate, airy, breezy feather. At the corner, the superstructure grows into a tower, forming a cross from its perforated cladding elements. Above it is the Star of Bethlehem, which leads to the cross, to Christ. Light and openness play the leading role in the interior. In both the passageways and the church interior, the constantly changing light shapes and transforms the atmosphere of the spaces, offering variety to those inside and elevating the spaces above the profane. The spaces flow into one another, the exterior and interior becoming one.










