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We resolved the exhibition spaces as variable halls, separated
by movable exhibit panels. Spatial variability and flexibility requirements
were of our spatial solution’s fundamental axiom... To this goal
we sacrificed many of the practicable architectural/artistic results
that a fixed exhibit space would allow, graded in expression...
Our solution’s content is based exclusively on how to display Slovakia’s
— vladimír dedeček
art, rather than displaying an architectural interior. 1
The cascaded shift of exhibition levels made it possible for each of them
— vladimír dedeček
to be lit by natural daylight. 2
An open amphitheatre, with an audiovisual block using film to promote
visual art, is part of the outdoor exhibition space. There are spaces
in various wings for libraries and reading rooms, academic research,
and individual departments such as those for graphic art and restoration
studios, a laboratory and a meeting hall with an audiovisual block at
— vladimír dedeček
the border between the exhibition and research/administrative spaces. 3
1 DEDEČEK, Vladimír. [Areál Slovenskej národnej galérie
v Bratislave]. Slovo autora. Projekt. Revue slovenskej architektúry,
23, 1981, vol. 1–2, pp. 10–11.
2 Ibidem, p. 10.
3 Ibidem, p. 11.
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