Author of the concrete relief between the buildings of the university dormitory of Juraj Hronec, known as "Bernolák", is architect Ilja Skoček. He collaborated on the 1960 design with Ľ. Jendreják, F. Konček, Ľ. Titl, and G. Thursunov, and it was implemented between 1961 and 1967. 

The relief is located on the street façade of a gymnasium and a swimming pool, the last two buildings to be constructed of the extensive complex. The abstract geometric composition is formed from architectural concrete. In the 1960s, the potential of this new artistic material began to be realised extensively in monumental sculpture and in the decorative finishing of modern buildings. The relief’s composition combines square and rectangular surfaces alternately recessed and protruding, while its shape suggests the floor plan or foundations of an architectural building. A combination of smooth and more roughly textured surfaces creates an interchange of lighter and darker elements. Close examination reveals that the composition is an arrangement of identical mirror-reversed geometric shapes that form the letter "i" into an organic whole of a new sign, possibly a representation of the graphic logotype of the dormitory. The aesthetics of division of the area into separate zones vaguely evokes the grid-system of horizontal and vertical lines in paintings by the Dutch painter Pietro Mondrian, but without his use of colour – the relief version reflecting the natural tone of concrete.

VB

Research status as of 31 December 2023.