Building camp in the Nagyvázsony Basin

A building camp is an opportunity to learn and implement the process of community collaboration, planning, building and cultural event organization. That is why we have organized a building camp in Tótvázsony, Barnag, Vöröstó and Nagyvázsony in July, in cooperation with the Department of Urban Planning and Design of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME).

Involving several municipalities provides an opportunity to strengthen regional links in addition to local development. To this end, the architecture students visited the four sites in the villages of Tótvázsony, Barnag, Vöröstó and Nagyvázsony with local municipal leaders and chief architects to assess the local needs.

During the spring semester, the students designed both long-term development plans for the public spaces of the villages as well as public furniture pieces for the small-scale improvement of the proposed sites. These were presented to the mayors during a design consultation. Public furniture pieces, bridges and an arm barrier were built in July at the building camp based on a shared vision with the locals . These small interventions were implemented to provide a way to the further improvement of public spaces and community meeting points as well as to facilitate a dialogue about local needs and ideas.

On the final day of the camp, 15 July, we celebrated the completion of the pieces with the locals, the students and colleagues of BME.

The event was part of the Veszprém-Balaton 2023 European Capital of Culture programme.