Aleksandra Pešterac Phd, Natalija Bogdanović, Maja Ivanović, Faculty of Technical Sciences Novi Sad,SERBIA

Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade with Balkan Architectural Biennale - BAB 2021 International Conference: Global Village – Shelter for Resilient Living

BALKAN APPEARANCE IN COLLECTIVE HOUSING VS THE OLD WORKER`S COLONY AND SOKOLANA BUILDING IN KRAGUJEVAC1

Aleksandra Pešterac, Phd, Assistant Professor, Department for Architecture and Urbanism, Sub-Department of Arts and Design, Faculty of Technical Sciencesa.pesterac@uns.ac.rs Natalija Bogdanović, Assistant Professor, Department for Interior Architecture, Faculty of Philology and Applied Arts,natalija.bogdanovic@filum.kg.ac.rs Maja Ivanović, Teaching Assistant, Department for Architecture and Urbanism, Sub-Department of Arts and Design, Faculty of Technical Sciences, ivanovicmaja@uns.ac.rs

Abstract

After the World War I, as a part of war reparation and for needs of the workers from Military/Technical Institute, the Old Worker`s Colony was built in Kragujevac. Some of these collective houses were built from brick, but most of them are wooden houses - so called “barracks”, with gardens and without fences. Apart from residential buildings, care was taken to ensure that all the needs of the population were met with the realization of 12-meter-wide street cutting, paving of sidewalks, construction of a park, square, community center (better known as Sokolana), schools, kindergartens, pharmacies, shops, administrative buildings and rooms for firefighting equipment. Today, this context is transformed into “contemporary” collective housing, where only remains Sokolana building, surrounded with new buildings whose facades contain “murals” with plants of the most famos Balkan drink rakija. The old baracks are now gone and this new reality of grapes and plums are occupying the Sokolana building. Therefore, the investor's need for profit tretends to vanish the socialization context and cultural content of the Old Worker`s Colony and Sokolana building.The paper will analyze definitions and concepts related to new collective housing in architecture caused by Balkan ideology. By using the case study method, analysis and synthesis, the paper will analyze specific examples of this phenomenon in the

1 This research(paper) has been supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development through the project no. 451-03-68/2020-14/200156: “Innovative scientific and artistic research from the FTS (activity) domain”.

Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade with Balkan Architectural Biennale - BAB 2021 International Conference: Global Village – Shelter for Resilient Living

Old Worker`s Colony and Sokolana building in Kragujevac. The aim of this paper is to indicate to the existence of these Balkan appearance in collective housing and investigate the future of such architectural phenomenon.

Key words: architecture, Balkan appearance, collective housing, Sokolana, Kragujevac