Vol.2, No 3, 2001 pp. 193-208
UDC 728.6 (497.16)(045)
THE HOUSE OF PASTROVICI:
UNIVERSAL IN TRADITIONAL
Aleksandar Keković
The Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture,
14 Aleksandra Medvedeva Street, 18000 Niš, Serbia
Abstract. Our traditional architecture, to which the House of Pastrovici belongs, as one of the examples of popular house building in the coastal area, is characterized by the functionality and suitability to human needs. The builders of this, in its essence a simple architecture, took care of every detail, proportion and measure, adapting to the environment and the available material.
The analysis of the interior and exterior space, and its division in segments, as well as the analysis of the spatial serial elements and proportional relations, endeavours to discover the ways and conditions under which this, in essence, endemic architecture was created. The messages it emits, the element of a sloped lean-to roof, simple basis of the house in rows in the functional sense, and grouping of the rows by creating the streets in the spatial sense, we find the elements of modernity and universality of the contemporary house. We may recognize the elements of such architecture in other architectures, even on other continents, even at the great names of the 20th century architecture, which enables us to consider it universal.
Key words:  Pastrovici, House of Pastrovici, stone, lean-to roof, rows, universality, functionality, traditionality.
PAŠTROVSKA KUĆA UNIVERZALNO U TRADICIONALNOM
Naša tradicionalna arhitektura, kojoj pripada i Paštrovska kuća, kao jedan od primera narodnog graditeljstva na primorju odlikuje se funkcionalnošću i čovekomernošću. Graditelji ove, u suštini jednostavne arhitekture, vodili su računa o svakom detalju, proporciji i meri, prilagođavajući se okruženju i materijalu koji im je bio dostupan.
Analizom unutrašnjeg i spoljašnjeg prostora, te njegovim raščlanjivanjem na segmente, kao i analizom prostornih elemenata niza i proporcijskih odnosa, pokušalo se doći do načina i uslova pod kojim je nastala ova, u suštini, endemična arhitektura. Poruke koje ona emituje, element kosog jednovodnog krova u oblikovnom smislu, jednostavna osnova kuće u nizu u funkcionalnom smislu i grupisanje nizova stvaranjem ulica u prostornom smislu, nalazimo elemente savremenosti i univerzalnosti savremene kuće. Elemente takve arhitekture prepoznajemo i u drugim sredinama, pa čak i na drugim kontinentima, kao i kod velikana arhitektonske scene XX veka, što nam daje za pravo da je smatramo univerzalnom.