godišnjak / yearbook 2013/2014
Autorski pristup u hrvatskoj arhitekturi / Croatian Architects Author’s Approaches diplomski studij / graduate study Programme Godina / year: 1; semestar / semester: 2 student: Mirna Udovčić mentor: Andrej Uchytil
Arhitektonski fakultet, sveučilište u zagrebu
Faculty of Architecture, UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB
Autorski pristupi hrvatskih arhitekata – Ninoslav Kučan
Individual Approach of Croatian Architects – Ninoslav Kučan
Arhitekt Ninoslav Kučan svojim je djelovanjem obilježio vrijeme prijelaza ideja zagrebačke škole arhitekture u postmodernistički pluralizam. Kučana zanima kakva će biti arhitektura novoga stoljeća i kako uspješno izraziti sadašnjost u arhitekturi.
The work of architect Ninoslav Kučan marked the period which witnessed the transition from the ideas characteristic of the Zagreb School of Architecture into a postmodern pluralism. Kučan was interested in what the architecture of the new century would be like and how to successfully express the present moment in architecture.
Ninoslav Kučan rođen je 1927. godine u Brezi kraj Sarajeva. Arhitektonski fakultet upisuje 1945. Tijekom studija pokazuje se njegova darovitost te sudjeluje s V. Turinom na antologijskome projektu sportskoga centra na Delti u Rijeci. Diplomirao je 1951. god. s projektom velike bolnice Medicinskoga fakulteta.
Ninoslav Kučan was born in Breza near Sarajevo in 1927. He enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture in 1945. During his student days his talent became apparent and he collaborated with V. Turina on the esteemed, now classical, project of the sports centre in Delta, Rijeka. He graduated in 1951 with the thesis on the Faculty of Medicine's large hospital building design.
S arhitektom Radovanom Nikšićem radi projekt Doma Radničkoga sveučilišta u Zagrebu 1955. god. koji se konceptom bitno razlikovao od tadašnje arhitektonske prakse. Najpoznatije Kučanovo samostalno djelo je Palača pravde u Zagrebu (A. Kučana). Građena od 1961. do 1970., označava kraj zagrebačke škole arhitekture i početak drukčijih ideja. 1970. prihvaća ponudu za posao tvrtke Rijeka projekt i ubrzo postaje vodeći riječki arhitekt. Iste godine nastaje projekt Robne kuće Ri (surađivao je s B. Babićem i V. Kučanom) – megalomanski projekt, gradski prioritet.
In 1955, Kučan worked with Radovan Nikšić on the house of the Workers' University in Zagreb whose concept was significantly different from the architectural practice of the period. The most famous Kučan's individual work was the Palace of Justice building in Zagreb which was built from 1961 to 1970. This building marks the end of the Zagreb School of Architecture and the beginning of different ideas.
Projekt stambenog naselja Krnjevo kraj Rijeke, pokazuje arhitektovu socijalnu osjetljivost i težnju humaniziranja životnoga prostora. Kučan stječe magisterij temom Krnjeva 1987. i od tada je mentor kod prof. Miroslava Begovića. Senzibilitet arhitekta najbolje se očituje u njegovim projektima telefonsko-telegrafskih centara od 1974.– 82. Na Kozali u Rijeci uski neboder je prvi gradski arhitektonski signal. Ona u Puli ima naglašeno modularno i kontrastno pročelje – postala je Kučanova amblematska slika. Centar na Sušaku je kompaktan raster limenih ploča sa skulptorskim plasticitetom, a ona u Umagu djeluje montažno i krhko poput svemirske letjelice. Ostatak svojega života provodi u Rijeci, gdje je napravio niz projekata za stambene tornjeve koji su materijalizirani u Vulkanovom neboderu, a od sportskih objekata Rijeka je dobila otvoreni bazen na Kantridi s karakterističnim lukom. Umro je 1992. godine. Kučanova ostvarenja su na tragu da je tehnološka, ali humana komponenta bitna i da ona uvelike određuje arhitekturu. Taj sustav vrijednosti dovodi do arhitektonskoga jezika koji ga izdvaja od ostalih arhitekata.
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In 1970 he accepted the offer to work for the Rijeka Project company and soon became the leading architect in Rijeka. In the same year he worked on the designs for the Ri Department Store (in collaboration with B. Babić and V. Kučan) – a megalomanic projects, the priority of the city. The project of the Krnjevo residential estate near Rijeka shows Kučan's social sensitivity and the aspirations to humanize living spaces. Krnjevo was the topic of his master thesis with which he obtained an MA degree in 1987. In the same year started working as supervisor under Prof Miroslav Begović. His architectural sensibility can best be shown in the designs for telephone and telegraph centres on which he worked in 1974-82. The narrow skyscraper in Kozala, Rijeka is the first urban architectural signal. The centre in Pula with a markedly modular and contrastive facade became Kučan's emblematic illustration. The centre in Sušak is a compact grid of sheet metal boards with sculpture-like roundedness and the one in Umag seems prefabricated and fragile, like a space ship. Kučan spent the rest of his life in Rijeka where he finished several designs for residential buildings which were materialized in Vulkan's skyscraper. Among sports facilities, Kučan created the outdoor swimming pool in Kantrida with a characteristic port. He died in 1992. Kučan's accomplishments come close to the view that technological side is equally important as the human side which considerably determines architecture. Such a value system led him to the architectural language which differentiated him from other architects.
Department of History and Theory of Architecture