The long-span concrete prefabricated skeletal system ŠPÚO-ZIPP was originally intended for the construction of Prior department stores in Slovakia, and later was used as a universal open modular system for a wide range of buildings under the name INTEGRO. Using the example of three department stores, the study offers arguments why, from the point of view of architectural interpretation, it is more correct to perceive buildings made from this skeleton as a series than to look at them as individual buildings responding more or less successfully to their context. As such, the architecture is defined more by a compositional or structural principle than by the final shape and program.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/archandurb.2020.54.3-4.6
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