Hilton Garden Inn is a precisely designed building with a unique facade, adding yet another characteristic sight to the city centre of Debrecen.

Hilton Garden Inn is in Darabos street, in the centre of Debrecen, behind the Great Reformed Church. In the unbroken city block, one neighbour is an apartment building designed by Tibor Mikolás in 1975, the other is the National Health Insurance Fund, and at the back the Vojtina Puppet Theatre stretches deeply into the unorganized inner block. However, the most significant building of the neighbourhood is the classicist mass of the Debrecen Reformed Theological University on the other side of the road.

Due to the small size of the plot and the 101room investment program the architectural concept had to focus on functionality.

The operational and
guest areas of the ground floor plus seven floor building are positioned on the two opposing sides of the rectangular layout. Between the two staircases on the ground floor a reception area, a lobby, a bar, a restaurant and a kitchen were designed. On the upper floors the hotel rooms are opening from a central corridor. The floors above the ledge are slightly set back from the street front. The top floor holds a meeting room, a sky bar and a wide terrace overlooking the towers of the Great Reformed Church. There are two floors of underground garage with car lifts, and additional facilities such as a fitness room, a conference room, a maintenance room and other spaces.

In addition to the functionality another important goal of the architectural concept was to create a connection to the already existing values of the downtown environment. The sober and space-saving design of the building has a two-shell facade. The inner shell is an anthracite-colored curtain wall, which provides an abundance of light to the relatively low ceiling spaces of the hotel floors. At a distance of 75cm, there is a cladding of white, aluminium composite panel, which is unbroken on the ground floor and is arranged in a chessboard pattern on the upper levels. Above the ledge the facade coverage follows the line of the half gable roof covered with standing seam metal panels.

Thus the outer shell of the facade envelops the building like a patterned curtain, evoking the orderliness of the classicist facades.

The dynamic pattern of blocks and gaps placed in a rectangular grid creates a massive base on the ground floor, and blurs the edges of the upper floors, and yet it radiates order. The important community functions are highlighted on the facade as special features. The cladding at the entrance, like a slightly moving curtain offers a   glimpse of the arrival area, yet alongside the line of the spectacular rooftop terrace it splashes out like a wave, resembling a tower.

Project Info

  • Project Name Hilton Garden Inn Debrecen
  • Location 3-7 Darabos u. 4026, Debrecen
  • Total Net Floor Area 4800m2
  • Years of Design 2020-2022
  • Year of Completion 2024
  • Client Tetrecen Kft.
  • General Design BORD Architectural Studio
  • Head Architect Péter Bordás
  • Architect Team Ágota Melinda Angi, Artúr Kálmán Lente, Linda Lente-Papp, György András Fábry, Andrea Méhes, Gábor Tóth
  • Interior Design BIS
  • HVAC Engineering BORD HVAC Engineering Llc. – Zoltán Hollókövi
  • Photography Tamás Bujnovszky