The Apartment House occupies a plot of one of the most heterogeneous
urban block in the centre of the City of Bratislava. The appearance of
the Apartment House is challenged by the existence of various historical
layers and fragments of the surrounding buildings with no other value
than their age. The site is also defined by the presence of individual
cases of important architectural fragments and buildings listed as
cultural monuments. The whole urban structure is under the proces of
filling the many existings gaps this block consists of.The
shape of a rental apartment house was designed as a compromise between a
strict pressure of the regional monument board and the cleints
pragamtic need for a habitable space and contemporary architectural
character. A result is provided by the disciplined volume and fasades
playing with random patterns, which is a adequate proposal and answer to
a such complicated and complex situation. Still this architectural
intervention would need to be followed by futher insertion of quality
architecture, which would bring to the urban block the expected
consistency.