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Indeed the amphitheatre clusters even within itself; examples<br />

of this include the lecture hall odeum cluster with the outdoor<br />

amphitheatre terrace above it, and clustering with other<br />

established, anterior forms of the context. A characteristic<br />

example is the facing, “bridging” SNG wing. The project’s initial<br />

alternatives brought together the forms of bridge and house,<br />

and later alternatives added the odeum. Three parallel exhibition<br />

levels, divided by moving panels, function as a multiplied stoa.<br />

This cluster of architectural meanings undoubtedly contributed<br />

to the conception of the extraordinary construction/spatial<br />

cluster of the bridging. Yet this came about from more than just<br />

an anterior architectural forms cluster, motivated by a balancing<br />

of architectural and urban planning aims.<br />

The form that the concept’s next developmental phase took<br />

is one of the central issues in Dedeček’s architectural thinking,<br />

expressed in the polarity of mono-block/pavilion. This issue<br />

subsumes another way that the architect links architecture<br />

and urban planning. The SNG site was intended chiefly as an<br />

exhibition area, and a basic need of the renovation and addition<br />

was to increase exhibition areas. However, in discussion with<br />

the SNG director, Vladimír Dedeček grasped the institution as<br />

purposed for communications and research as well as exhibition.<br />

Such a program was best suited for a pavilion arrangement.<br />

In this sense the SNG area can be read as an effort at<br />

interlinking contemporary pavilion buildings and the historical<br />

form of a three-wing arrangement, with the wings – in contrast<br />

to an enclosed four-wing form – anticipating the outcome of<br />

separate pavilions. Pavilions can be relatively independent<br />

monofunction units, of unrelated volumes and spaces, or differentiated<br />

by storey as in the three-tract administration building,<br />

which was originally designed as a mono-block. The architect’s<br />

text implies that the monofunction administrative storeys were<br />

hybridized to include exhibition spaces in various form. It might<br />

be the form of “art cabinet” (study room), as was the case with<br />

the graphics study room; or clustering a lecture and projection<br />

hall under an outdoor terrace and a walkway hub, connecting<br />

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