Collective Building Camp in Visegrád

The history of the Collective Building Camp in Visegrád began in 1981, when a handful of enthusiastic students of architecture from the Technical University of Budapest went to Imre Makovecz for advice, asking him to help them better explore the world of architecture in addition to what they regarded as the rather dry curriculum of the university. Makovecz encouraged them to build something collectively and placed an abandoned strip pit managed by the Pilis Park Forestry Company at their disposal. The building camp was given new impetus in 2014, when, thanks to the support of the Local Government of Visegrád, the university’s students of organic architecture had the opportunity to experience the original idea of collective building. Now the local government regularly draws up a design project and each of the students make their respective projects. They jointly select the winning design and collectively implement it as a closing project of their two-semester organic architecture course.