The architectural duo Jozef Slíž and Eva Grébertová in their design of the social house in Šamorín followed the successful project of the social house in Dunajská Streda. In Šamorín, they repeated the distinctive mass articulation and the use of cannelled concrete on the façade, thus achieving a similar brutalist expression as in Dunajská Streda. When designing the social house in Šamorín, the authors tried to approach the scale of the surrounding historical buildings. At the same time, however, they gave the building a dominant position within the historic centre - in accordance with the zoning plan, which specified higher civic amenities with a pedestrian zone.
Architecturally, the building consists of a contrast of straight side walls and fractured structures on the fronts. The south orientation of the building provides a view of the Romanesque church site from the entrance area. The main entrance to the building from the south is emphasised by the front stairs on the ground floor; balanced by the mass of the internal staircase which is offset in front of the façade of both the vestibule and the upper storey with club rooms. The main space of the house is a social hall designed for 400 visitors, the secondary space is a puppet stage for 100 visitors on a sunken floor. On the north side there is a staircase for performers, the exterior of which was coloured by the academic painter Ladislav Berger. The entrance lobby of the house is still complemented by an impressive sculptural relief by the architect Dušan Kuzma
Bibliography:
SLÍŽ, Jozef - GRÉBERTOVÁ, Eva: Spoločenský dom v Šamoríne. Projekt 26, 1984, 1, s. 16 — 17
ŠLACHTA, Štefan: Dom kultúry v Šamoríne, Československý architekt XXVIII, 1982, č. 10, s. 3.
MORAVČÍKOVÁ, Henrieta - SZALAY, Peter. Domy kultúry na Slovensku: Vzostup a pád jedného typologického druhu. In Osvěta, kultura, zábava: kultúrní domy v Československu,Michaela Janečková, Irena Lehkoživoá (eds.) 2024, VI PER: Praha, 601 s.
