The Trnava House of Culture is an extremely distinctive building of late modernism. It was created on the basis of the winning competition proposal by architects Jozef Danák, Juraj Štecko and Jozef Žiaran from 1971.
The House of Culture occupies a position in the immediate centre of the historic core of Trnava. The architects coped with this exposed location by means of a monoblock with an expressive form, which created a compact front of the square based on the trace of its original medieval shape. At the same time, the new building of the House of Culture organically connected the courtyard tracts of the historic buildings of the original urban spaces, the Hlavná Street and the Zelený rínek, through a system of passages.
The main façade, oriented to Trojičné Square, is treated according to its span. The individual modules are terminated by a roof slope, which was intended to adapt the shape of the cultural house to the historic environment. The eastern façade is flat, with distinctive bands of vertical concrete segments. The brutalist materiality of the building, in the form of exposed concrete, anodised aluminium or technician details such as steel pipes for air conditioning vents or gutters.
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