Rehabilitation of Zsolnay Factory: Greening Back the Public Space

Energy and sustainability, FULL, Middle Density, Project, Territory and mobility, Újirány, Urban Paradigms

Brick, Bricks, Collective garden, Context, Ecological researches, Factory, Framing landscape urbanism, Future Urban Legacy Lab, Green, Greeneries, Hungary, Industrial context, Landscape Architecture, Pécs, Raw materials, Reconstructing nature, Regenerated industrial facility, Urban Legacy, Urban Paradigms

The area of Zsolnay Quarter is divided into a southern and a northern part. The much bigger northern part – as part of the Zsolnay family’s living space ­­– was originally created as an English landscape garden, interlaced with the family’s own works as in a fairy tale. On the other hand, the southern area could be interpreted as the opposite of the northern part. It was a kind of a source of energy for the factory that ensured the essentials for functional operation: raw materials were deposited here because of the site’s proximity to the railway, and the water required for manufacturing processes was drawn from a stream that once ran through the area.