Designing his Home Town, Damjan Prelovšek
«For God’s sake, we don’t want it to look like a remand centre, like the modern schools, where the light is measured in square metres and where they play around with hygienic jokes – this could, or it is supposed to be, a work that will last a hundred years. […]
The pavilions in the park of the former women’s prison in Begunje of 1939 are a derivation of the same theme and not, as might perhaps appear at first glance, a variation of Laugier’s purely functional primal hut. For the first pavilion Plečnik used tree trunks instead of columns, with a roof of concrete tiles above, which were made by the nuns to his instructions. The second pavilion, which was to be used for Corpus Christi processions and as a resting place for the Sisters of Mercy who worked in the prison, is a closed room under a pitched roof. The Doric columns with their mannerist rustication are striking; they are a rural metamorphosis of classical architecture. […]
[Plečnik’s] roof also ‘floats’ above the pillars, which lose some of their appearance of solidity by being painted. […] Although there is no formal similarity between the buildings, Plečnik’s roof can be compared with the ‘floating’ roof of the pilgrim church in Ronchamp.»
Text:
- Prelovšek, Damjan. «Designing his Home Town». A: Jože Plečnik 1872–1957: Architectura Perennis. New Haven / London: Yale University Press, 1997, pp. 302–308.
Imatges:
- Històrica 1-5: Pavelló Brezjanka («Murka»), Begunje (després de 1939). Foto: MGML documentation / Plečnik Collection.
- Històrica 6: Pavelló ‘Murka’ (Brezjanka), Begunje (ca. 1940). Matko Prelovšek, Plečnik and the Mayor of Ljubljana, Juro Adlešič, inspecting the «Brezjanka» pavilion. Foto: Arxiu de l’autor. Extreta de: Damjan Prelovšek, Jože Plečnik 1872–1957: Architectura Perennis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997, p. 309.
- Històrica 7: Pavelló ‘Murka’ (Brezjanka), Begunje (ca. 1939). «Murka» open pavilion, Begunje. Foto: Arxiu de l’autor. Extreta de: Peter Krečič, Jože Plečnik: The Complete Works, p. 230.
- Històrica 8: Pavelló ‘Murka’ (Brezjanka), Begunje (ca. 1939). The ‘Brezjanka’ pavilion at Begunje, 1939, contemporary photograph. Foto: Arxiu de l’autor. Extreta de: Damjan Prelovšek, Jože Plečnik 1872–1957: Architectura Perennis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997, p. 308.
- Històrica 9: Pavelló ‘Murka’ (Brezjanka), Begunje (ca. 1939). «Jožamurka» pavilion, Begunje. Foto: Arxiu de l’autor. Extreta de: Peter Krečič, Jože Plečnik: The Complete Works, p. 231.
- Històrica 10: Pavelló ‘Murka’ (Brezjanka), Begunje (ca. 1939). «Jožamurka» pavilion, Begunje. Foto: Arxiu de l’autor. Extreta de: Peter Krečič, Jože Plečnik: The Complete Works, p. 231.