As a designer, I employ computation and digital fabrication to explore nature through the lenses of complexity and evolutionary optimization. My research extends to areas such as biological intelligence in future cities and neuroscience in the context of spatial sequences.

I envisions a future where buildings and cities are designed and materialized through collective, interspecies intelligence.

Contact:

me@laszlocseresznyes.com

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By continuing a concrete panel housing block (with the mistakes of the XX. century attached to it), and making rammed earth comparable with reinforced concrete, we aimed to highlight the evolution of this construction method, and its possible future use in our cities.

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While it was never finished and printed out, as the social changes were even quicker than that, it is still a material proof of its time.

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2. prize in Urbanism section,
2021]

I'm researching how to visualize mental rhythms in time, as well as how to visualize physical space in time. Overlaying these two, I'm curious if there is a connection.

Does the rhythm of physical space affect the rhythm of our thoughts?
Are there better and worse rhythms? Satisfactory dynamics?

The original research paper was written in Hungarian, but here is an illustrated extract:
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This park in Budapest, an urban oasis, has no clear boundaries. This pavilion lets the visitors "jump" into the park, from the busy street, and find themselves marinated in this green and blue world.

In addition, my idea was that you could rent any sport equipment for free if you leave your smartphone behind.

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In this tiny affordable housing unit, everything needed to be very organised and compact. From the right construction elements and interior design to the details.

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It aims to create a strong community, which generates value to the district and makes tourism once again interesting, valuable, and local.

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2017]

After regenerating an old factory by turning it inside out, transforming it into a public square, a cinema comes to find its place, folding itself in between the massive reinforced concrete trusses.

This object is ready to generate life around.

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The mental path of floating towards a community, being inducted and becoming an insider, protective of your new community, all manifests in the spaces of this building.

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This experimental city centre was my master thesis project.

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What's more, an entire urban public place around a library can serve as a similar source, where we plug in to the infrastructure of electricity, information, and community.

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And this is an urban path, created to be able to pass through and not to pass through at the same time. It was important so that this community could open their gates for whoever is willing to think a bit like them to get inside.

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2023]

This renovation and extension is located in the Portuguese village Almieira de Tejo, and is the home of a writer.

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Visualib is a tool for designers, researchers to collect, organize, and process information from the internet.

I started developing it, to give an easy and free app to collect information from the internet, to categorize, take notes, and present.

The browser extension allows the user to right-click and add selected texts, images, social media posts to their collection.

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2023]

Mindo is an experimental second brain, which allows the visualization of the dynamic interconnectedness of thoughts, ideas, tasks, and information.

The project investigates how we visualize time, intervals, and cycles, what the measurable unit of a thought is, and how we can map them.

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A series of generative behaviour, and reactive systems.

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An off-grid campsite, with the aim to be constructed in phases, in a community inclusive way.

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I proposed an AI powered evolutionary-model for building-optimalisation, combined with a financial model based on calculated impact.

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Topography is a type of input, which placed under a simple set of rules can result in complex behaviour. Combining a shortest path algorythm with the consideration of bridge geometry cost results in a responsive system.

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2024]

Challenging high-tech aquaponic gardens, we are researching alternative ways of urban food-production.

For the project, I'm developing optimisational surface and volume defining algorythms. My goal is to create a modelling methodology, which is driven by real-time biological data.

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Collaboration with Tomasz Symosz
2024]

We are developing a way of augmenting existing roof tiles into a bio-receptive product for carbon sequestration, water management of increasingly extreme rains and drouths, and building ecological resilience in dense (historical) urban areas.

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I like to imagine a more biological future.

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Among some other activities, we represented the organisation at SZIGET festival. One year we also made a proposal at the Art of Freedom installation competition of the festival, which was selected and realised.

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In 2017, after being selected based on a competition proposal, I could participate at a conference in Krems, and in some other events.

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I was part of Gödör, a student association, organising parties and cultural events. Like this photo exhibition.

In this community I felt at home and inspired. This can be found in some other projects and experiments:
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Returning home I organised an event, where I read to my fellow architect students.]]>
One of our projects was the chair:
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The site is in the Jewish district in Budapest, between Dohány street and Síp street.

The "Campus" of Young Professionals aims to give affordable housing to fresh graduates and facilities to create and promote their businesses.

The site historically functioned as an "open-block", open on both ends to facilitate public commercial activities on the ground floor.

The "open-block" concept was common in the Jewish district of Budapest. Usually multiple patios are connected as a string.

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Interpreting this situation as a billabong, I was interested in creating a passage whose main purpose is not at all to pass through.

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The result is a sequence of public spaces between the volumes. Some are intimate, others are even more intimate. A billabong is born, with the opportunity to find something without even looking for anything.]]>

The garden is public, but the galleries provide an intact and private circulation for the residents.

]]>+++]]>+++]]>The project for a new neighbourhood in London was won by a collaboration of offices, including MKA.

I participated in the 1st phase, which was a block study, together with ARUP, Prior+Partners, Lendlease, Peabody, and others.

My skills in architecture data science came in handy, and I even developed a tool to connect quantitative data in real time with the qualitative data of spatial planning.

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This project of Marc Koehler in Porto Brandão aims to take measures to improve local services and support local initiatives, providing space and infrastructure, and creating careful, non-exploiting tourism.]]>
In the project we are experimenting with different low-tech heating, cooling, ventilation, and construction, specific to the location and its climate.]]>+++]]>
This led me to the creation of this Archicad object, called unit tool. It can replace the zone tool in early phases of development, being capable of storing multiple-story apartments, holding data about the unit and automatically categorizing it, based on m2, number of aspects, etc.

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The huge number of custom-made objects soon led me to a parametric approach. I created several Archicad objects, including the following Armario tool.

The parameters, beyond geometry, also included special modules and fire-equipment. These parameters of the 3D objects were passed as data in the format of printed documentation as well as BIM.

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The Escola Secundaria de Cascais has around 1300 students. Currently the buildings are on the left half of the plot, while the right half is a parking place.

In 2019 a competition was announced for a new school building. The project had to consist of a first construction phase on the right side, then the demolishing of old buildings, followed by the second phase on the left side.

The competition was won by the office, where the design project was completed. The team was: Pedro Gameiro, Teresa Mateus, Madalena Figueiroa, Raquel Pereira, Joana França, Mariana Bacelar, Miguel Feijóo and me.]]>
On the ground floor 4 concrete volumes form legs: restaurant, administration, spaces for students with special needs, and the library block.]]>+++]]>
The competition in 2023 was announced to design a pavilion, without any predefined location, which advertises this construction technology, and can host an exhibition on the topic.

Due to urbanization and modernisation, the building industry replaced stone, wood and rammed earth with bricks, steel, and reinforced concrete. Rammed earth is still considered an outdated material.]]>
Making rammed earth comparable and "interchangeable" with reinforced concrete gives an idea of the potential scale of its future use, in our cities as well.]]>
We think a discussion about future (mass)housing that goes beyond eco-friendly and sustainability is important. In the 20th century a housing crisis and a new material resulted in a huge intervention, which only revealed its own problems afterwards.]]>+++]]>
We organised workshops to plan the structure of our co-living, to create our "constitution" and think about space together.

While the project didn't take off, what remained from it is a booklet, to present our project. Designed and illustrated by me, with simple, conceptual drawings to communicate our message.

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Budaörs doesn’t have its main square in the usual sense. Its heritage is the wide, but very long main road, with a rich program on the sides, but out of walking scale.

The solution could be the development of several points of the main road into several sub-centres. The most underdeveloped part is the housing estate area, with the biggest potential also.]]>
What is missing from being independent enough from Budapest is culture and entertainment.]]>
The buyers and sellers together sent the plastic bags to exile, still sharing the pride, and new reusable shopping bags, created by the women of a civil organisation, victims of domestic abuse.]]>
In the first stages it serves as the parking lot, as before, while food-trucks will make some facade for the middle square.

The steps of the floor ensure one layer of rigidity under the future flowing chaos.]]>
Beyond spatial tools, to follow real-time, a cockpit for participatory workshops is created, overlooking the square.

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How to phase a project with quite open future stages?]]>
Everything is connected on the ground floor, like a loud continuous forum. Interrupted by square shaped situations which elevate in height, and let people be more committed to the function.]]>+++]]>
Our conscious flow is a mix of exterior input, interior memory retrieval, working, calculating, feeling emotions, etc... It requires a certain dynamic to be successful. Sometimes we can't focus any more in a museum.

But can spaces influence our mental dynamics? Are there better spaces providing us with a more balanced and successful conscious flow?

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If we put a person into the objective space, the space will be perceived through the person's own subjective filters.

The perception of the space is also dependent on the route itself; different orders, angles, emphasises create different spaces.

When a person is in motion in a space, these two add up. In each moment the person is changing the route and the route is changing the person. This is the hodological space (Bollnow).]]>
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The black parts show when information from the outside world filtered through the person's "shell".

The first stripe shows the rate and organisation of data withdrawn from the physical space, and the orange curve suggests the "mental speed".

The second stripe shows the transition of attention between the physical space and the mind.

The third stripe shows the transition between conscious and unconscious alignment with the path.]]>+++]]>+++]]>
I designed this affordable apartment unit. The interior design form details together with the construction elements, making everything as compact as possible.]]>
The furniture on the two sides carves out smaller rooms from the big one.]]>+++]]>
In my Erasmus semester the task was to design a luxury hotel on the ocean coast of Carcavelos.

My principle was to keep the site open, acting against the tendency to fence off the coast from the city, as mega-constructions are installed into the area.

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The strategy for construction between the trees was worked out in parallel with the design process.]]>
Among the leaves there are the bathrooms, and above the bedrooms. Other private and public rooms fit into this system in the form of vertical living rooms or the spa area.]]>+++]]>
The „Bridgehead” competition was about establishing a connection between Esztergom and Stúrovo.

After making a quick research about the Hungarian, historically and geographically rich Esztergom, and the post-industrial, flat, Slovakian Stúrovo, we came up with the idea of turning the unused factory chimney of Stúrovo into a viewpoint, a camera obscura.]]>
It gets a third dimension and the ability to see and understand itself from its own side of the river.]]>
This maze of stretched sheets invites people to discover the transition of land to water by the touch of their feet, throughout a path looping in between these two realms of nature.]]>+++]]>
The geometrical centre of Paks (H) is a peripheric area with an old tin food factory. We wanted to turn this area into a city centre by taking the local and global processes into full consideration, and building up a strategy where the factory becomes the catalyst.

]]>The huge building and empty surroundings needed to swap places and form a coherent system.
]]>The cinema, which is put into this huge public space, needs to be able to fence in and shelter smaller spaces for open air events. This formed the building.

I folded it sensitively in between the structure.

]]>On the ground floor a cave is formed for pop up exhibitions and events.

On the beam level, a roof-top open space is formed, sheltered by the structure, perfect for open air cinema.

In between there is the cinema, which can be closed during the night without affecting the circulation of the public space.]]>+++]]>
The cultural program in a village is mostly established by the locals. Everybody is a spectator and creator at the same time, which was the starting point of the design.]]>
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The visitor can orbit further from the core more independently, or closer becoming more and more involved.

The time he reaches the origin point, where every process is visible, depends on the rate of his conscious decisions and passive unconscious walk.

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The design reflected a small research I made at the urban park of Lake Feneketlen.

My design makes an experiment to eliminate the close traffic from the most vulnerable corner, forming a shelter, giving a mental border to the park, and establishing a renting place, where visitors can exchange their smartphones for any kind of sport equipment while they are staying.]]>The space I create intends to evoke the feeling of jumping into the water, into the silence where time slows down.]]>
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They were running a small bar, which could expand to the inner garden sometimes, make the residents close up in their units and give place to an outdoor theatre event on the hilly site.

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What is a chair?

This project started with lectures on chair design history before it resulted in a weekend workshop.

In smaller teams, we were designing and fabricating conceptual chairs, asking questions about today's comfort, timespan of sitting, mobility, etc...]]>+++]]>
Our proposal for a double-sided game installation for the SZIGET festival was selected. We could build it for the festival.]]>+++]]>
Control, so each can curate his/her own conscious flow. A conscious flow where the subjective experience of the past modifies the experience of the present.

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We usually don't want to read everything, and this creates the perfect excuse not to. It is rather a pile of images and a cluster of thoughts.]]>
I wanted to give myself complete freedom over the size, so I created a way to automatically reorganise the position of the images on the page, as I add, delete or edit some posts.

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I can also offer a way to manage your content. This is how I do it:
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I temporarily used this space to live, therefore decided to make the lightest, most ephemeral intervention to control the amount of light coming from the bare lightbulb.]]>+++]]>
This led me to think more about how such situations can evolve or be established in other contexts, and in what way they could be supported (or harmed) by design.]]>
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Is there a way to design a place that holds more coincidence in itself, or invites destiny more often?

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To sustain these different kinds of relationships, it requires a rich spatial structure, with a wide spectrum from private to public.

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I approached this question with a certain level of participatory design in this project for a new city centre of Budaörs.

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While working in MKA, I could experience a process where this went further, opening for the whole village. A sort of private bottom-up approach for creating a community or making an existing one stronger.

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This was an experiment about how to make people more present:
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When we are in motion, this connection can be even stronger. In every moment we change the space, and it changes us.

I'm interested in this interconnection of the physical and mental path, and what it could mean for us to understand this connection better.]]>
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After browsing for 30 mins on the internet (including social media), could you tell me the chain of information you acquired? Probably not.

I think this is, because we can retrieve memories when they are stored with good connections, referring to a place and time.

In contrast, when browsing, we hardly ever get strong connections to its place and time. Most of the times we don't even know why we are receiving that particular piece of information.

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Until then, you can still access and enrich your collection on your phone, you can find how.]]>
Take some notes.

This way you will consume the internet and not the internet will consume you.]]>

I created an algorithm, which positions the images and texts without closing them inside a grid, sacrificing the freedom of their size.

This way the user can scale up and down their content, based on their priority or aesthetics. A quick way of presenting information and keep focused on the bigger picture.

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The user can also share notes with other users, and integrate these guest notes in their own network, without revealing them to the other user. This attempts to mirror conversations, where ideas are entering a shared context, while these shared ideas are also embedded in local contexts in the speakers’ own minds.]]>Try here:

https://cherrychain2-hngd5ys3ua-uc.a.run.app/

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When the scene is changing, elements of this landscape are sinking to or rising up from the underworld. The salon is an ever changing stage.]]>
The ruins in the back will be occupied by the bedroom and private bathroom of the writer. A bridge is connecting the private part with the salon.]]>2023]

Experimenting with flexible skins adapting to summer and winter habitations.

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Hempcrete is used as an infill and insulation.

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An AI powered evolutionary-model for building-optimalisation, combined with a pyramid-scheme financial model.

(from the words Design + Genesis)

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If you enter DESIGENESIS with your project, you are going to receive proposals on materials, energetic solutions, all based on realistic data, measured on previously realised buildings from previous layers of this „pyramid game”.

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If you enter and realise a good project, your data will be channelled to lower layers of the pyramid, to future projects, and you are going to receive a calculated commission. If your project is less good, you are being part of a dying evolutionary branch. In this case your investment to enter won’t give a proper return, but the system will only get better. What matters in evolution is not the success of the individual.

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The „game” is incentivising innovation in the natural, local-resource-based construction sector as well as in the low-tech, bio-intelligent building research sector, where individuals or companies with their good ideas – which today aren’t measurable or quantifiable - can test and justify their solutions, as well as drive a global evolutionary process. Today’s marginal construction will be accessible by actors of standardised and regulated industries.

The result is more investment, more awareness, which eventually will cause these methods to spread from small scale pavilions and individual houses to urban mass-housing.

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2023]

Mindo is an experimental second brain, which allows the visualization of the dynamic interconnectedness of thoughts, ideas, tasks, and information.

The project investigates how we visualize time, intervals, and cycles, what the measurable unit of a thought is, and how we can map them.

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I envision a future where buildings and cities are designed and materialized through collective, interspecies intelligence.

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I believe, that the different creative ways we try to bridge cognitive science and neuroscience-the human concepts and the biophysical behaviour-will affect how efficiently we will be able to hack into our mind and unlock new heights of existence.

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This is an urban fabric, created to be responsive both to the exterior context, and to the interior sequence of spaces it generates.

And this is an urban path, created to be able to pass through and not to pass through at the same time. It was important so that this community could open their gates for whoever is willing to think a bit like them to get inside.

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2024 ]

An off-grid campsite, with the aim to be constructed in phases, in a community inclusive way.

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licencing and execution phases in the role of architect, computational designer and BIM manager,
2020-2022]

Matos Gameiro Arquitectos won the competition and was commissioned to design the new highschool of Cascais.

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2023]

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