GROSS. MAX. in collaboration with Dillier Scofidio + Renfro Architects won an international design competition to design the New Hungarian Museum of Transport in Budapest in a disused railway carriage works. The New Museum of Transport occupies a unique location within the city, and country, as part of a network of connectivity. The new museum is contextualized within a patchwork of native vegetation representing the enormous variety of meadow and forest ecotypes in Hungary. Each patch is an exemplar of a specific soil condition, providing the corresponding growing conditions of particular plants and species representing the wide variation of geographic regions in Hungary, such as the Hungarian Plain, the Carpathian Basin, and the fluvial sediments of the Danube. The increased biodiversity of the site allows for interpretation and education whilst providing an increased sense of spatial definition between the various programmatic activities of the site. New trees are carefully integrated amongst existing trees to create a contemporary arboretum. The vegetation will mitigate urban heat islands and create a variety of micro-climate conditions providing shade, shelter, and humidity as well increase the seasonal experience and provides an intensification and diversification of the ground plane. The integration of plaza, park, and built form along with the juxtaposition between natural and artificial conditions creates a dramatic setting and new typology of public space. The public plaza and museum park reconcile the wider landscape of sinuous railway lines and the urban grid of the industrial buildings. The plaza extends the urban grid of the New Hall and gradually ‘dissolve’ in the museum park, which extends into the wider landscape with bold sweeping lines of tree planting and unfolding meadows of wildflowers. Here, architecture and landscape are integrated in a seamless continuum. This concept could frame and integrate the entire site as cultural campus and provide a missing link and ‘ecological stepping stone’ to the People’s Park (Népliget).