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Housing estate Medzi jarkami

current function
housing
address
Medzi jarkami, Bratislava
architects
Svetko Štefan, Ďurkovič Štefan, Štátny výskumný, projektový a typizačný ústav, Bratislava
project
1973
implementation
1973 – 1979

The housing complex is due to its extraordinary urbanistic form among the most daring realizations of its kind. The main blocks, represented by standard sectional blocks of flats type ZT and ZTB-2, are arranged into three large polygonal units. The polygonal block formations surround internal courtyards with recreational areas and playgrounds with distinctive landscaping and artistic adaptations on which the architects collaborated with the sculptor Juraj Hovorka. Public facilities are concentrated on the road passing through the housing complex. Architecturally distinctive is, an atypical object of a lodging house with 450 flats, known today as Pentagon. There are a total of 1,570 flats in the whole complex.

Bibliography:

Ehrenberger, Imrich: Monumentálna kompozícia bytovej zóny. Projekt 18, 1976, 8 – 9, s. 10.
DULLA, Matúš – MORAVČÍKOVÁ, Henrieta: Architektúra Slovenska v 20. storočí. Bratislava, Slovart 2002, 512 s.
Moravčíková Henrieta a kol.: Bratislava Atlas sídlisk. Bratislava, Slovart 2011, s. 335.

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