Oblivion

The core of Budakalász – architectural competition

„slowly and slowly everything will sink into oblivion”

forget, /fəˈɡet/ verb 1) Missing something from the memory. 2) Losing a certain skill.
oblivion, /əˈblɪv.i.ən/ noun 1) Fault of memory whan one does not remember what happened. 2) The state of being completely forgotten. Slowly and slowly everything will sink into oblivion.
(Gergely Czuczor and János Fogarasi: Dictionary of the Hungarian language, 1862)

The Northern foothills of the Berdó hill is called Kálvária Hill. This is where archeologists found the remains of an Árpád-era church in 2011. What they unearthed was the history, the sacred core of Budakalász emerging from oblivion. The church took its final shape in the 13th century before it was badly damaged at the beginning of the Turkish era. Although the resettled residents and the Serbs worked hard to renovate it, the damaged church – which was one day the heart of the town’s life – turned into a ruin after a few generati…

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Architectural competition: Nóra Pajer, Noémi Soltész / 2018
Team: Norbert Juhász
Location: Budakalász, Calvary Hill
Size: 6500 m2