Scientific Journal of Riga Technical University Architecture and Urban Planning
Agate Eniņa, Jānis Krastiņš. Creative Work of the Architect Daina Danneberga in the Context of Architectural Heritage of the Soviet Period
Fig. 22. Row houses for teachers of Bulduri Technical School, 1989. [2]
2010
Volume 4
Fig. 24. Inturist training complex with dormitories in Jūrmala, Dubulti, 1983. Scale model. [2]
Fig. 23. Dormitories of Bulduri Technical School. Project, 1989. [2]
Freestanding buildings are connected by passages. Building volumes are evenly and delicately ‘set’ among shadeproviding trees and within the riverbank scenery of the Jugla. Classrooms are located on the ground floor; rooms for boarders and the rest area are arranged on the second and third floors, providing all what is necessary for children’s health. The inner courtyard, which is located in the place where the blocks of pre-school classrooms and secondary school classrooms meet, creates the culmination of emotional expression. A freestanding fireplace – a symbolic bonfire – adjoins the courtyard. Structurally substantiated aesthetics of the entire building and the logical rhythm of façade arrangement convincingly reveal professional maturity of the architect. It is profound, explicit and elaborate architecture. Experience in school designing also showed in two other buildings constructed in the 1980s – the Trade Union Training complex in Riga, at Augusta Deglava iela 41a (now Riga Purvciems Trade School, 1983) and Bulduri Technical School in Jūrmala, Viestura iela 6 (now Horticultural Secondary School, 1989, co-author the architect Anda Ārgale). The Trade Union Training complex (Figures 16 and 17) is a refined periphrasis of cubic shapes – dark, patterned planes interchange with white, plastered surfaces, while window openings are arranged asymmetrically with strongly protruding terraces and balconies. The trends of Late Modernism are also reflected in the building of Bulduri Technical School (Figure 18). Cubic volumes containing classrooms adjoin the yard, but the part where the main entrance is located displays filigree motifs of
Fig. 25. Competition proposal for the House of Composers in Jūrmala, Melluži.1967. Co-authors the architect Andris Purviņš and the student of architecture Zigurds Lazdiņš. Scale model. [5]
Postmodernism (Figures 19, 20 and 21). The building with its original design smoothly blends within the refined architectural scenery of Jūrmala and perfectly coexists with the cluster of houses of horticultural school built by Pēteris Dindonis in the early 20th century which are situated in the foreground of the complex. Unfortunately, the terraced garden that was planned around the building was not arranged. At the same time with the construction of the school complex it was also planned to improve the quality of life of teachers and students. For this purpose dwelling houses for teachers (Figure 22) and dormitories for students were designed. The dormitory project (Figure 23) was not implemented as a result of political changes in the 1990s. Another two more spacious building complexes in Jūrmala were not built either – the project developed in 1983 for Inturist training complex with dormitories in Dubulti (Figure 24) and 41