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Image, identity and quality of Cvjetno naselje housing development in Zagreb

Cvjetno naselje from 1939 is the last and best Zagreb’s individual housing development planned before the WWII built on the previously rural periphery along the Sava River. The author of development plan and house types is Vladimir Antolić, a progressive architect and member of the Zagreb Work Group – a Yugoslav representative at the Fourth 1933 CIAM Congress where Zagreb was one of 33 presented cities. Development plan of Cvjetno naselje is a rational and functional elaboration of Zagreb 1936 Regulation plan in which Antolić was one of its co-authors. Cvjetno naselje was planned in two rows of five cassettes of which 6 middle cassettes were intended for housing. Pedestrian alley was planned to link the school and the park on the west side and the market place, sports fields and public buildings on the east side. Projects of four types of detached houses on columns are determined by potential flooding of the Sava River. Although 70 houses were envisioned on the area around 13 ha, 80 houses were built partly according to Antolić’s house type projects before and after WWII when a park was laid out on the west side where an elementary school and a public building were also built while a residential building with shops was built in the development centre. In two eastern cassettes six units of five typical row houses, seven typical residential buildings with a total of 63 apartments and three houses were constructed. Image, identity and quality of Cvjetno naselje is defined by context of space, rational and functional Antolić’s development plan and projects of recognizable houses. Cvjetno naselje might have potentially become a quality prototype of Zagreb periphery urbanization with individual houses. However, it has not been implemented due to socio-political changes after WWII and orientation towards collective housing construction in Zagreb.

Cvjetno naselje, housing development, Vladimir Antolić, Zagreb

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