Housing reconstruction of war damaged towns and villages in Eastern Croatia

dc.contributor.authorSepic, Lj
dc.contributor.authorBiondic, Lj
dc.contributor.authorDelic, A.
dc.contributor.otherIAHS World Congress on Housing (33rd : 2005 : Pretoria, South Africa)
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T07:33:45Z
dc.date.available2009-06-04T07:33:45Z
dc.date.issued2005-09
dc.descriptionAuthors of papers in the proceedings and CD-ROM ceded copyright to the IAHS and UP. Authors furthermore declare that papers are their original work, not previously published and take responsibility for copyrighted excerpts from other works, included in their papers with due acknowledgment in the written manuscript. Furthermore, that papers describe genuine research or review work, contain no defamatory or unlawful statements and do not infringe the rights of others. The IAHS and UP may assign any or all of its rights and obligations under this agreement.en_US
dc.description.abstractPaper presented at the XXXIII IAHS World Congress on Housing, 27-30 September 2005,"Transforming Housing Environments through Design", University of Pretoria.en_US
dc.description.abstractA rough estimate brings the total damage in the 1991/92 war in Eastern Croatia to nearly 24.000 dwellings (houses and flats). Many protected historical inner city cores as well as complete traditional villages suffered serious damages or were completely destroyed. If one can state that every region, not only in geographical but also in spiritual sense, corresponds with physical and spiritual sphere, begin realized and lasting through time, then we must conclude that this time element was by physical war destruction systematically removed from the towns and villages of Eastern Croatia. The main task of reconstruction therefore should have been in bringing back this time element by rebuilding those physical links with the past. This paper deals with reconstruction of these towns and villages where on one hand there was tendency to abandon the traditional model of a row-village and to replace it with buildings adopting models from models from another culture, completely strange to this particular region. In order to speed the return of the refugees the tendency continued after the war and the villages were rebuilt with off-the-peg houses of quite different character to the traditional one, modeled on different cultural model. The possibility of interpreting in a creative way the great qualities of traditional villages: ecological, economical, sociological and last but not least architectural qualities was lost in reconstruction. The reconstruction in the historical towns, besides complete reconstruction of the buildings in the very city cores in some examples, also shows a disrespect for the traditional way of life. Introducing housing models from another culture and other regions very rarely interpreting in a creative way the previous architectural identity of the area.
dc.format.extentPresentation consists of 8 pages.en_US
dc.format.mediumThis paper was transformed from the original CD ROM created for this conference. The material on the CD ROM was published using Adobe Acrobat technology.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSepic, L, Biondic, L & Delic, A 2005, 'Housing reconstruction of war damaged towns and villages in Eastern Croatia', paper presented at XXXIII IAHS World Congress on Housing 2005 - Transforming Housing Environments through Design (HUE), University of Pretoria.en_US
dc.identifier.isbn1-86854-627-6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/10326
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherIAHS World Congress on Housing.en_US
dc.rightsCopyright shared by: International Association for Housing Science, Coral Gables/Miami, Florida 33134, USA University of Pretoria (UP), Hillcrest, Pretoria 0002, South Africaen_US
dc.subjectWar-damaged housingen
dc.subjectTraditional housing modelen
dc.subjectEastern Croatiaen
dc.subjectHistorical inner city coresen
dc.subjectTraditional villagesen
dc.subject.lcshHousing -- Croatia -- Congressesen
dc.subject.lcshHouse construction -- Croatia -- Congressesen
dc.subject.lcshArchitecture, Domestic -- Congressesen
dc.subject.lcshArchitecture -- Conservation and restoration -- Croatia -- Congressesen
dc.subject.lcshBuildings -- Repair and reconstruction -- Croatia -- Congressesen
dc.subject.lcshPostwar reconstruction -- Croatia -- Congressesen
dc.subject.lcshDwellings -- Croatia -- Maintenance and repair -- Congressesen
dc.subject.lcshTime perception -- Congressesen
dc.subject.lcshSpace and time -- Congressesen
dc.titleHousing reconstruction of war damaged towns and villages in Eastern Croatiaen_US
dc.typeEventen_US
dc.typePresentationen_US

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