The House of Culture in Vrbové (formerly the Company Club ROH of the national enterprise Trikota) was realised as a type project of the architect Milan Šavlík from the early sixties. The basic shape in the form of two perpendicular wings with a main theatre hall with a stepped auditorium, foyer and club rooms was complemented by a cylindrical building of a stage hall, the so-called rotunda.
In the type design, the arrangement of the individual volumes could respond flexibly to the particular site. However, it was assumed that the building would be set as a solitaire in an open public space. This type of house of culture was implemented for the first time in Vrbové. The stage hall with a circular plan attracted attention not only because of its spatial but also because of its artistic design. The perimeter cladding consisted of glass-concrete blocks with an abstract artistic motif. The interior was complemented by a large-scale mosaic depicting stylised musical instruments.
During the first half of the 1970s, houses of culture of the same type were built in several Slovak and Czech towns: to mention Kolárovo and Nižná, while they took advantage of the flexibility of the pavilion concept and in some cases realised only the part with the cinema hall, as for example in the Czech town of Přibyslav.
Bibliography:
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.
