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Children Holiday Camps in Croatia

Immediately after the First World War a number of children holiday camps was constructed along the Adriatic coast, as well as in the heartland of Croatia, mainly as a part of an international campaign for suppressing of diseases like tuberculosis and rickets and an organised introduction of changes in social and economic lives of “ the common people” , which were implemented by the recently founded “ School of National Health” in Zagreb, financed by the Rockefeller Foundation as well. Systematic building of children holiday resorts and organising of children summer holidays on a massive scale is noted in Croatia during the times of the socialist Yugoslavia, after 1945. One of the most ambitious and in terms of architecture the most interesting example is the so called Pionirski grad (today: The Youth City) nearby Zagreb, which was urbanely resolved by Josip Seissel (in the avant-guard period of the 1920-ies known as Jo Klek) in 1948. The pavilions were designed by Ivan Vitic and the horticulture was designed by the landscape architects Zvonimir Froelich and Pavao Ungar. The general impression is that this is a highly cultivated area to which the established relations between the natural and the artificial elements also make their contribution: a free urban plan, adjusted to the terrain, a park solution with grassy meadow and low shrubbery interchanging with oak forest, and finnaly, an architectural volume marked by its dimensions, form, mutual relations, interpretation, material, and detailing.

children holiday camps, pavillion architecture, croatian seaside, Pioneers Town

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