Vágóhíd Street is located in the ’rust belt’ of Budapest. Local urban fabric has gone through many changes that transformed the route primarily serving industrial activities into a vehicle-oriented bypass to a dense residential area – leaving the street with many identities and a heavy domination of vehicle traffic.

Following the inquiry of local inhabitants our multidisciplinary team came up with a solution that celebrates the coexistence of these many identities. It is a harmony of varied open spaces in the 3 different sections of the street. By keeping the collector road role but reducing through traffic and kerbside parking and slicing up the 30 m wide asphalt the street was able to accomodate a linear greenery with 111 new trees, an accessible sidewalk with intermittent social hubs on strategic locations and foremost, an separate safe cycle path with all necessary service elements, and a community cycle-sharing station.

We believe that this redistribution of the urban space (cross section) that truly reflects the inhabitants needs’ is the best way to create a cherished neighborhood, while we did not underestimate the power of aesthetics either - selecting harmonizing street furniture set and a coherent planting plan was also a priority.

The architecture of the street gone through many changes to became a residental area but keeping many elements of the previous functions it still remains heterogen.