The Hospital with Polyclinic in Dunajská Streda was among the first modern hospital facilities constructed in Slovakia after the Second World War. The original section was designed as a hospital monoblock in a symmetrical composition based on a project by architects Oldřich Černý and Štefan Imrich. The H-shaped monoblock was accompanied by a spacious garden and an entrance building oriented toward the main road. Opened in 1960, the monoblock comprised four primary departments—internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and surgery—with a total capacity of 244 beds.
Following a rapid increase in population in the subsequent decades, the hospital proved insufficient in capacity. An extension added new departments and doubled the overall bed capacity. The extension of the Hospital with Polyclinic in Dunajská Streda was designed by architect Eva Ondušková as an elongated volume inserted into the central part of the complex. Although this intervention resulted in the loss of a significant portion of the original garden, the architect articulated the mass of the extension through a system of six internal courtyards, which to this day are complemented by valuable sculptural works. The circulation cores were articulated with rounded forms, a motif to which the architect also gravitated in her later work.
The façades feature cladding made of fluted concrete, also known from the Social Center building in Dunajská Streda, combined with ceramic tiles in a brick-red color. The most impressive interior space is the inner gallery of the foyer, illuminated by roof skylights and originally complemented by custom-designed semicircular furniture.
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Fórum architektúry, 2000, 10(6), p. 11.
RAJCHL, Jaroslav et al. Rozvoj zdravotníckej výstavby v Slovenskej socialistickej republike. Martin: Osveta, 1986, p. 39.
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