Naslov
Fallout Shelters in Zagreb After the End of World War II

Autori
Kahle, Darko

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Skup
Society of Architectural Historians 71st Annual International Conference

Mjesto i datum
Saint Paul (MN), Sjedinjene Američke Države, 18.04.2018. - 22.04.2018

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Cold War ; Architecture ; Fallout Shelter ; Zagreb ; 1945-1991

Sažetak
Encouraged by professional papers regarding air raid shelters throughout and after the Spanish Civil War, building authorities in Zagreb obliged private landlords to organize the basement floor or its parts as a properly protected air raid shelter, when building new apartment house. During the World War II the Germans and their quisling followers excavated tunnel shelters chiefly below the Upper Town for protection against Allied bombing. Fallout shelters in Zagreb constructed on behalf of the Yugoslav People’s Army during the Cold War are threefold, started with refurbished and enlarged former air raid tunnel shelters underneath the socialist administration buildings, most of them being currently used by Croatian government. A couple of years ago the southern one below the Upper Town became famous as a tourist attraction. Further are structures incorporated to the foundations of government, hospital or office buildings during their construction as the cover for their occupants. The Independence of Croatia was proclaimed in 1991 in the shelter beneath the “INA” headquarters building. Third group contains detached structures in close vicinity of collective housing blocks, kindergartens or schools, built as underground massive reinforced concrete containers covered with soil and planted with grass, appearing almost invisible to an uninformed observer. These structures sheltered wide parts of Zagreb population from air raids of the Yugoslav Air Force in 1991. Later they fell into oblivion, although some of them served as warehouses for do-it-yourself Croatian entrepreneurs or as storages for belongings of people who were evicted from their fore-closured homes. In making the evacuation plan caused by great natural or man-made disasters, city government currently considers the idea to make existing fallout shelters overall refuges in the event of serious accident in nearby nuclear power plant in Slovenia, at the average distance of 25 miles from Zagreb.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arhitektura i urbanizam

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