BudaPart – new, exciting city quarter in the making

25% of Budapest’s new city quarter, called BudaPart, is already finished. The area located at Kopaszi Dam is nicely coming together as people who would like to enjoy both the bustling city life and the recreational facilities within reach have started to move in.

The Kopaszi Dam area of Budapest is exciting because this is where the quays end, and the Danube’s bank is accessible from here. It still counts as the centre because, as the crow flies, it is less than 4 kilometres away from Deák Square. In the future, it is expected to become a sub-centre area, says Napi.

The most recent urban development models inspired the great project of Budapest’s new quarter, BudaPart. The developer company, Property Market Kft., purchased the property in 2015. They worked together with a Danish architecture team and analysed experiences of quarters like HafenCity in Hamburg, Nordhavn and Sydhavn in Copenhagen, CityLife in Milan, and Aspern in Vienna. But other than architects and engineers, the team also worked with sociologists to get to know the lifestyles of people who move to these areas, what makes them feel good, and what makes a quarter in a city truly liveable. Their aim is to create a compact city where people are provided with both leisure and rehabilitation facilities, as well as residential and work areas. They want to create a sub-centre in the city which serves people who live and work there, but also other residents of the whole of Budapest.

They also aim to include smart city traits – the first office building named BudaPart Gate received a LEED Gold certificate, and residential buildings are designed with innovative heating and cooling systems.