坐落在佩奇市东南部的Szathmáry宫殿算得上是匈牙利最有价值的历史古迹之一。宫
殿坐落在山上，俯瞰着城市。这里经过历代的变迁，已变成一堆废墟。这个更新项目
启动是源于城市在2010年得到欧洲文化之都的称号。废墟将成为夏日剧场的背景。
残墙断壁就像地质的遗物那么古远。散乱且不能反映建筑整体的废墟，让人们对过去
的场景难以实现想象的认知。因此将废墟保存而不复原。尽可能的利用这里的视野进
行规划设计。
设计师在一角植入了一个L型的锈蚀钢板构筑物，非常薄的高耸物，人们沿着楼梯爬
上去，能在这里看到美丽的城市风光。这个构筑物的下侧空间包含夏季剧场的一些设
施，采用了穿孔锈蚀钢板为材料，光能够穿透其构造，形成丰富的光影效果。轻薄的
构筑物体量与原有建筑走的是相反的概念，强调的并非“复原”。
地面被清理干净。舞台和座椅也采用了相同的材料：锈蚀钢板。座椅分布在原来是室
内的区域，舞台位于废墟西侧，标高稍微高处地面。
这个更新项目以有力的手法将废墟及其环境进行了统一和完整的整改。因为没法复原
如此复杂的肺腑，设计师在保持原貌的基础上，用干预将这里导向一个新方向，重新
定义这里，让其成为一个流连忘返之地。
The reconstruction of the Szatmáry Palace
The existing ruins of the renaissance Szathmáry Palace is one of Hungary’s most
valuable protected monuments. The palace is situated in the city of Pécs which is one
of the oldest town of the southwestern region of Hungary with long historical
background. The ruins are located in a park of Tettye Valley in the northeast part of the
city, where the dense historical urban fabric meets nature. The valley rises almost from
the heart of the city, offering a magnificient view of the city from the top. Bishop Gy?rgy
Szathmáry (1457-1524) built his own Renaissance style summer residence here at the
very beginning of the 16th century. The palace must have been a two-storey building
with inner patio, made of local stone. It was said to have been a U-shaped building
arranged around a courtyard open towards the South, that is to say, towards the city. A
former archeological excavation confirmed that the Bishop of Pécs had a building with
inner courtyard built that was rebuilt a number of times later. During the long occupation
of Hungary by the Ottoman Empire from the mid-16th century, the palace housed
probably a Turkish dervish cloister. This is when the south-east tower must have been
built that is still untouched. After the Ottomans had been driven away, the building was
left empty and its condition became worse and worse. At the beginning of the 20th
century, one part of the building was demolished, and certain openings were
strengthened with arches, thus providing a sense of romantic ruin aesthetics. Until
recently the ruin was used as a background scene for a summer theatre. Despite the
long history and its superb location, the palace in its bad condition was not able to fullfil
the proper role following from its historical and architectural importance.
In 2010, it was Pécs, Essen and Istanbul that were awarded the title of European
Capital of Culture. As part of this, a priority project focussed on the renewal of public
areas including Tettye Park. This project provided an opportunity to put the ruin in a new
context and the park could be present in its redefined way as a whole. The ruin in its
dense complexity carries a number of qualities, therefore the designers of the
intervention studied the current context and condition of the ruin as a starting point.
The Szathmáry Palace are, mostly, ruins of a building, but today this quality does not
say too much in itself. It does not particularly reflect a significant renassaince feature.
Obviously it lacks the architectural details we know very little about (few of the
renassaince stone fragments kept in Pécs can be attributed to the building in Tettye).
So it can be said that the architectural reality of the ruins continue to exist through the
spatial relations generated by the remains of the wall. However, this shows a very
mixed picture caused by natural and human erosion. The volume of damage at the
southeast corner is so big that one can hardly picture the supplement of the ruins.
At the same time, the badly damaged ruin, particularly due to the neglected state of the
park, appeared as a picturesque landscape element in the valley of Tettye. Pre-war
postcards represent the atmosphere of a nice, picturesque tourist destination which
undeniably rule the whole landscape. However, the abandoned park began to re-
conquer the ruin so much that during high season, the character of the ruin can hardly
be made out. From certain angles, it looked like a geological creature. This feeling has
still remained if one looks at the ruin closely due to the intense erosion of the former
southern side of the building. The image of the picturesque ruin is emphasized by the
strengthening arches made through the early 20th century.
The third important peculiarity about the building is that the originally closed inner space
of the palace has continued to be part of the park’s public areas today, dissolving the
former differentiation between the landscape and the building. Thus the ruin has gained
a public space quality in the meantime. Interestingly enough, the open-air performances
of the summer theatre set in the ruins emphasized this feature even more.
The reconstruction programme of the Tettye Park basically made it unavoidable to re-
define the role of the palace ruin as an emphatic landscape element and architectural
monument. When defining the interventions, our main aim was to avoid overwriting the
intellectual layers as well as the quality resulting from the ruin’s complexity. The starting
point was to accept the existence of these even if the layers were developed either
through centuries or just a few decades. At the same time, it was unavoidable to revise
and ’retune’ the quality and the meanings carried by the ruin.
During the course of the architectural interventions, together with the monument
protection authority, the ruin’s wholescale floorplan and its partial spatial reconstruction
was carried out based on the scientific results of the arheological excavations that
proceeded the design phase. During the excavation, the base walls of the southern
wing believed to have been missing for a long time were discovered, which seemed to
support the hypothesis that the building did not have a U-shape. As a result of the
excavations, we were now able to draw the ascending wall parts and construct the
original floorplan. What we basically did during the reconstruction of the floorplan was to
repair the floor level inside the external outline of the whole of the original ruins, and we
also attached retaining walls along the eroded southern side and the south-eastern
corner, behind which we filled up the eroded ground up to the floor level. This
supporting wall has a stabilizing role in stopping the erosion that resulted in the sliding.
The original floorplan is marked by the walltrace.
During the local spatial reconstruction, we designed an L-shaped, steel structure
building part that had been missing from the south-eastern side, which includes a look-
out tower and stairs leading to it, as well as a technical facility required for theatre use.
It is important to mention that the new construction did not mean to be a formal
reconstruction (the latter one was not an aim in fact and the amount of data that was
available was insufficient), therefore it does not repeat the original mass properly. What
happened instead was that we wanted to create such a mass in the place of the former
wall corner that strengthens the building character of the ruin as opposed to its ruin
character, framing the city view along with the current corner resembling it to the act of
viewing out of a building. On the territory of the ruin, no more reconstructions were
done, that is to say, we did not mean to ’complete’ the ruin. Evidently, the look-out tower
offers a fascinating view of the city, but at the same time there is a nice view too to the
inner part of the ruin, making the floor plan reconstruction neat and revealing.
As a part of the floor plan reconstruction, we re-defined the ground surfaces inside the
outer walls of Palace, referring the former usage of spaces: the inner patio became a
green lawn zone, while the other older inner areas, where the inner rooms were,
received a surface course of mineral rubble of local stone granulations. As part of the
interpretation of the ruin’s space as a public space, we applied surfaces that refer to
the current public space use rather than to the original floor carpet. In the former inner
space of the ruin’s Western wing, a new carpet-like stage was completed for theatrical
purposes, rising above the surface level very slightly. The new corner construction, the
stage and the street furniture (sitting facilities) all received the same Corten steel
carpet.
As part of the reconstruction of Tettye Park, both the ruin’s immediate and distant
environment have been renewed. Having replanted the green area around the ruin, the
formerly covered, fragmented building that could be characterised as a more unified,
magnificient whole has managed to regain some of its original character. We also
managed to restore both the physical and intellectual layers that contribute to the ruin’s
complexity through applied interventions. It was also an aim to rather define new
directions to its future destiny when we placed the parts endowed with the remaining
meanings in a new context. Furthermore, the whole area could become a new, exciting
part of the city context, in which the re-defined palace ruin plays an outstanding role.
Through the re-arrangement of the green surroundings, which included the removal of
the traffic located south of the ruin, we created a triple terrace system that defines the
centre of the Tettye valley in this place again.
Architects: Marp, Budapest
Márton Dévényi, Pál Gyürki-Kiss
Assistants: ?dám Holicska, Dávid Loszmann
Landscape planning: S73, Budapest
Dr. Péter István Balogh, Sándor Mohácsi, János Hómann
Structural engineering: Marosterv, Pécs
József Maros, Gergely Maros
Steel construction planner: J.Reilly, Budapest
Zoltán V. Nagy, Péter Bokor
Electrical Planning: LM-Terv, Pécs
Gábor Lénárt
Mechanical services: Pécsi Mélyépít? Iroda, Pécs
Erzsébet Bruckner, Ferenc Müller
Competition phase: 2007
Design phase: 2008-2010
Construction: 2009-2011
Gross area: 1040 m2
Client: City of Pécs
Photos: Tamás T?r?k (www.topogram.hu)
