Villa Cinquecento is a project designed by Napur Architects. In its lifetime, Villa Cinquecento has been through the hands of three different owners and went through many visions of transformation by various architects – a situation which is difficult to handle on its own when tackling a new design challenge. Therefore, when Napur Architects were tasked to redesign the multi-residential building, it was inevitable throughout the whole process that the participating architects and the new customers would need to collaborate through open, transparent communication to achieve a high-quality result. Photography by Tamás Bujnovszky

Reacting to the steeply wooded site of Buda, Villa Cinquecento is designed as a highly responsive dwelling that embeds itself into the hillside. Anyone who has been in Buda before, couldn’t argue with the statement that the most beautiful inner part of the district falls into the area of ??the so-called Istenhegy, Svábhegy, and Kútvölgy. An incredibly exciting valley, where the topology of the landscape is part of the design process of every house. There are plenty of narrow streets, steep and dramatic slopes; plots where the woody, steep bushy landscape is not only stretching extensively and infinitely from one corner of the horizon to the other, but it almost feels like it’s at your fingertips. And still. The typical city dweller is not very familiar with this spectacular s...