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THE MATICA HRVATSKA (MATRIX CROATICA) BUILDING IN ZAGREB – GROUND FLOOR ADMINISTRATIVE AND OFFICE PREMISES INTERIOR – BASEMENT ADAPTATION FOR CLUB PREMISES AND EXHIBITION GALLERY – ADDITIONAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE COURT-YARD BUILDING WITH SPACIOUS HALL
Mario Beusan
; Arhitektonski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Hrvatska
Sažetak
This paper is the author's architectural and urban overview of the Zagreb-situated Matica hrvatska building reconstruction and interior design chronology, as well as that of its court-yard part – whereas the author of the overall construction concept and adaptation is the author of the text himself – Mario Beusan. In April 1992 – in the course of celebrating Matica hrvatska's 150th anniversary – M. Beusan was invited by its administrative management and began working on the adaptation and renovation of the interiors of representative premises and offices on the building's ground floor. Being completely devastated, neglected and dilapidated, the ground floor was in need of overall renewal.
The reconstruction, adaptation and interior design concept was based on the idea to catch the refined and slightly modified authentic historical spirit of the 19th century's last quarter (to which the given architectural structure belonged to), and it resulted in testifying also of the institution's long tradition. The Matica hrvatska building with its address at Akademički trg 5 was built in 1886. The ground floor layout was L-shaped. Its longer wing is oriented to the west, and the shorter one to the north. According to the layout structure, the building falls into the central corridor type, along which there are spacious cells in the front and back (court-yard) zones. The main entrance is located in the main facade axis (west), whereas the side entrance is in the next to the last window's axis of the northern facade.
After the ground floor interiors were completed, M. Beusan accepted the invitation of Vlado Gotovac, Matica hrvatska's president at the time, to carry out a very challenging task – to elaborate the design project for interior adpatation of Matica hrvatska's basement premises named Klub i Galerija Matice hrvatske (Matica hrvatska's Club and Gallery). The project was completed by the end of 1993, and carried out in its major part during 1994, with some of its contents being consequently altered (the gallery is still being used for occasional exhibiting of works by young artists).
In April of 1998, based on the initiative of academic Josip Bratulić, the then president of Matica hrvatska, Beusan completed the initial project design „Dvorana Matice hrvatske“ (Matica hrvatska's Hall) for Matica's new house in the existing building's court-yard (east fringe) – inviting architect Irena Jurin („Renova“ firm) to elaborate the documentation for the construction permit and building design. In March of 2001 Irena Jurin completed all the necessary documentation on basis of Beusan's initial project design, while he made the design for the new building's interiors. The grand opening took place on June 28, 2002, when Matica hrvatska celebrated its 160th anniversary.
Ključne riječi
Matica hrvatska; building; historicism; ground floor layout; main facade; north facade; administrative block; president of Matica Hrvatska; council hall; bay window; Matica hrvatska library; Matica hrvatska gallery; club, court-yard building, Matica hrvatska hall
Hrčak ID:
160194
URI
Datum izdavanja:
2.6.2016.
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