Veszter Gábor: Villas in Budapest. From the compromise of 1867 to the beginning of World War II - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1997)

The uilla of Ernő Havas. II., Ruszti utca 8/B

all designed with the purpose of connecting inner and outer space. The L-shaped living space on the ground floor was articulated by moveable means of demarcation such as curtains and sliding glass doors, rather than walls and conventional doors. Diversified space combinations could be obtained by the addition of an area or its removal, the richest effects having probably been achieved by maximum spatial conjunction.

According to a description written a few years later by Kozma himself, the L-shaped living space combines three rooms and a terrace into a malleable ensemble. The complex formed by the conjugation of two, three or four rooms is manifold and poly functional... Elements of spatial enlivening involve means of delimitation presenting diverse degrees of flexibility (curtains, partition walls made of wood, glass or ceramics, full height glass door), light, variable in origin and intensity, and furniture which can be arranged in different ways. The rooms, very different in shape, situation, orientation and illumination are conjugated into one very loose spatial system by the emphatically heavy and massive (grey-green linoleum) flooring and the immaterially white ceilings. The apartment occupied both floors of the villa. The living space mentioned above, together with the kitchen and the service rooms, was on the ground floor, while the somewhat smaller upper floor was taken up by the parents’ and the son’s bedrooms,

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