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The development of the built environment is our shared passion in DANU’s management. In this, a designer’s perspective capable of thinking at different scales, a broad, practical technical and economic expertise, and a technological approach seeking innovation in the past and in the future are equally important.
Building and architecture is one of the greatest intellectual challenges, through which we can actively shape the present and future world and address the most important and pressing issues. We are proud to work together to achieve this.
With our clients and fellow engineers, we can work together as a team to deliver truly high quality work, and it is of paramount importance to us that we design with the resources of this team as sustainably as we design with the resources of our land. As architects at DANU, we believe that with such a basic setup, it is possible to create unique, lovable and timeless buildings!
We classify our projects into three complementary categories that guide our creativity towards sustainability and durability: “re-use”, “for-forever” and “quick-win” are architectural principles formulated on the basis of our experiences and previous design work.
Every investment starts with a thorough understanding of the site and the building, the first step of which is always a survey. However, a digital replica of reality not only ensures that the design tasks are well-founded, but can also provide ready-made solutions for process management and operation.
Our team of skilled professionals is dedicated to both accurately assessing the physical environment and developing the state-of-the-art technologies currently available. We are constantly opening up to new applications for survey technologies, such as building tracking, heritage and conservation, film and other creative industries. We specialise in the efficient processing of large building inventories.
Urbanism is where the human, environmental and technological worlds come together, so knowledge from many disciplines is needed for all tasks. We believe that urban planning is one of the most important research areas of the future and we share a common interest in building sustainable, healthy and successful communities for future generations.
This is why the Urbanist division of DANU is a multidisciplinary team. We provide analysis, advice and planning at the scale of investments, public spaces, neighbourhoods, municipalities and regions. We have extensive experience in the design and implementation of brownfield redevelopment projects, cultural institution development, smart city solutions, urban public spaces and regional scale strategies.
BIM is the key to the digitalisation of the construction industry. Building Information Management helps to make investments more time and cost efficient, collaboration more transparent, information more integrated and the implementation process more predictable. The use of BIM and proptech tools is not an option, but an indispensable feature of modern and responsible investment.
We want to create the best possible building for future users. To achieve an excellent result, we also need the right tools, so that the project is predictable and predictable, so that everyone involved – the client, the designers, the contractor and even the operator – can make the right decisions and the resulting building really serves its intended purpose.
Eszter is a certified architect and urbanist trained at BME. After university she joined ADI Studio in 2017, where she worked as a designer on several projects. The studio's data-based, city-scale and strategy oriented approach turned her interest towards urban planning. Since 2021 she has led the company's urban planning division, and from 2024 she is a partner and managing director of DANU. She has been active in community and professional public life since her youth, being a founder of BME Architect Club advanced studies college, a volunteer of KÉK Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre from 2007 and its director since 2021. One of her main areas of interest is the creation of livable regions in Central Europe, especially through connecting top-down and bottom-up initiatives in urban development, for which she also participates in international expert communities.
Samu March. is a chartered architect, urbanist, graduated from BME and New Jersey Institute of Technology. As an architect, consultant and strategic planner, he has worked with cities, institutions and market players over the past two decades, and has organized, led and curated numerous development programs, professional events, research and exhibitions in Hungary and Europe.v It deals with architecture not only as a practice but also as a form of knowledge. He is a regular lecturer and course leader at national and international universities. He was a founding member of the Centre for Contemporary Architecture in 2005 and is currently its professional director.
Bálint is a certified architect and urbanist trained at BME. He began his work under the mentorship of Balázs Miklós in ADI Studio in 2003. Until 2023, both as co-owner of ADI Studio and as the head of the architectural division of Opinion Builders, he participated in numerous realized projects, tenders and exhibitions. From 2024 he is a partner of DANU, where his areas of expertise are re-use building conversions, complex architectural and urban programs, historic districts and tourism development.
He defended his PhD thesis in 2015 on the measurability, conflicts, and systemic development of urban tourism. He is associate professor at the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Deputy Dean of the BME Architecture Faculty, and a member of public bodies and committees of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has been the organizer of numerous international workshops and research programs, and author of internationally cited scientific publications.
He is active in the public life of the profession, an organizer of conferences and architecture-related events, one of the founders and currently president of KÉK Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre.
Tamás is a certified architect, trained at BME with a short detour in Liechtenstein. After university he joined the international team of Graphisoft. During the 9 years he spent there, he learned a lot about BIM and standardization, and had the opportunity to travel the northern hemisphere visiting design offices and software manufacturers. This is how he became interested in how design, the planning process and digital innovation technology interact, and how they can improve efficiency in the operation of an office and provide better results in a building project. He wanted to bring home the best practices he had seen abroad, so he has been incorporating his experiences into operations of Opinion Builders from 2021 and DANU from 2024. On the professional side, he continues to train in management and business development, and in his free time he goes cycling, sailing, skiing or reading sci-fi books.
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