Register of modern architecture in Slovakia

Architektúra povojnového modernizmu na Slovensku: identifikácia, hodnotenie a ochrana Reissue of the publication Bratislava – Atlas of Mass Housing 100 Years of Paluš!

"Juraj Hronec" university dormitory

Študentský domov Juraja Hronca

current function
housing
address
Bernolákova 1, Bratislava
architects
Jendreják Ľudovít, Skoček Iľja, Konček Ferdinand, Titl Ľubomír, Tursunov Grigori
builder
SVŠT Bratislava
project
1960 – 1961
implementation
1961 – 1967
status
existing

On a site intended for German-language schools during the war years, a university dormitory of two thousand beds was created in the early 1 960s – a symbol of the distance that Slovak architecture travelled over just under two decades from traditionalism back to modernity. Composed of two three-tract blocks, the dormitory is built of concrete panels using the system BA, connected by a glass passageway. With their own toilet, washbasin and shower, the rooms were originally designed for two persons. Attached to the eleven-storey blocks is a lower wing with a dining hall, social area, swimming pool and exercise room. Despite the free asymmetric composition, the building creates a cultivated sense of proportions when approached from the square. The entire architectural idea is founded on the refined combination of the stereotomic accommodation blocks and the tectonic structure of the large areas of glass in the lower sections.

Bibliography:

ŠVANIGA, Juraj: Internát na Legionárskej ulici. Projekt 2, 1960, 6, s. 247 – 250.
Vysokoškolský internát na Legionárskej ulici v Bratislave. Projekt 9, 1967, 8/9, s. 203 – 206.
KUSÝ, Martin: Architektúra na Slovensku 1945 – 1975. Bratislava, Pallas 1976. 288 s.
DULLA, Matúš – MORAVČÍKOVÁ, Henrieta: Architektúra Slovenska v 20. storočí. Bratislava, Slovart 2002. 512 s.

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