Tourist center, Szerencs

        The Szerencs Sugar Factory, founded in 1889, was an important player in the economy of the town of Szerencs, which was closed in 2008 based on an agreement with the European Union. The factory buildings were demolished, only the historic buildings and the locally protected building of the former sugar factory warehouse remained. The sugar factory warehouse was originally built as a three-story building in the 19th century. century, with two intermediate wooden floors. In the 1960s, the two wooden floors were dismantled in most of the building, and an irregular ground plan reinforced concrete pillar - reinforced concrete beam slab system was created, with a hardwood floor secondary structure. It was then that the original three rows of facade windows running one above the other were converted into two rows. The original three-story design with the wooden ceiling remained only at the SE end of the building. The condition of the building has deteriorated continuously over the years, the roof structure of the courtyard wing was completely rotted by 2014, therefore only very few elements of the roof structure of this part of the building could be kept during the renovation.

        Since the archaic beauty of the mixed brick-stone masonry of the house was revealed in many places behind the plaster falling due to the lack of a roof, we quickly realized during the planning process that we wanted to keep the external walls as a visible stone-brick surface without re-plastering.

        We transformed the building only to a minimal extent, apart from the construction of the staircase and the elevator tower, only the construction of the steel porch on the courtyard side is to our name. According to our plans, we wanted to create the facade doors and windows from an aluminum structure, but this failed due to the customer's decision and financial reasons, and therefore wooden facade doors and windows were made. During construction, when the old plaster was removed, the building began to show its structural facade, and little by little it became clear that it was a really good decision to leave the stone-brick mixed masonry visible instead of re-plastering. During the grouting of the wall surface, the contractor also had to carry out a lot of masonry repairs.

        Although wooden windows were eventually added to the building, the structure of the original wrought iron windows (the frame and partitions) were rebuilt as window grilles after cleaning and renovation. Inside, the original carpentry structure was preserved in most of the building, major replacements and alterations were made only in the courtyard wing. The appearance of the interior is determined by the structures used, the polished concrete floor and the steel railings and elevator tower. After sanding, the hardwood paneling of the existing reinforced concrete beam slab was rebuilt as the remaining formwork of the reinforced concrete slab above the ground floor.

         The function of the building is a tourist center and local history museum, where it is also possible to rent bicycles.