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administration corridors with the Water Barracks problematicizing
three-tract arrangement.
The proliferation of pedestals in the administrative building’s
main stairway has an equally hybridizing effect, though functionally
this serves to differentiate the vertical passage and the
horizontal connection to hygiene facilities. The dominating pavilion
arrangement refers to the architect’s linguistic syntagmatic
working version of architecture; the rules of this were differentiated
both in program and especially in composition, with clustering
intending linking of of contextuality and meanings within
architecture. This “salami method” 6 in distributing programs in
sections led to a “domino” game of playing with them. The shifting
of pavilion storeys in the administrative building, or raising
and shifting them in the bridging, were leading to two goals: to
create clusters of galleries and terraces, and to make the courtyard
accessible; Dedeček’s agora-based urban planning for the
SNG site confirms this.
Ultimately, the third version of the elaborated concept became
the architect’s “factor-based” (factorial) working version.
The decisive factor in the formation became light in its various
forms: from direct and diffuse natural lighting to artificial varieties.
Vladimír Dedeček has on various occasions explicitly affirmed
this / see Textual interpretation, p. 55 and Architectural interpretation, p. 78 /.
Thus bringing in light was to be the regulator behind shifting
the exhibition halls of the bridging into a cluster of a hall space
and spatial levels, as proved by figurative architectural clustering
and selection of the bridge’s roofing materials. Dedeček let
the light into the SNG site differentially (the natural light in the
bridging versus the Water Barracks artificial lighting), but also
6 The first step was to order all the sections and sectors
in a continual syntagmatic sequence that is potentially open,
both in length and in height. The program of the building was
decisive in determining the sequence's closure. Here, two basic
rules run the show: typological/functional, and constructive.
Dedeček metaphorically referred to this first step as a so-called
salami method. The second step consisted of cutting this section/
sector continuum into compositional units (storeys, pavilion
wings...). Dedeček usually called this second step domino.
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