Baťa´s houses In 1931 Tomáš Baťa bought a factory in Třebíč-

Borovina and then a construction of first (family) houses according to plans of Vladimír Karfík started.

Everything was desinged and made after experience from a construction of a factory quarter in Zlín.

Houses were built especially for shoemakers from Zlín. Later experts from hosiery joined them.

Construction of houses proceeded very fast. In 1940 Borovina factory colony had family houses

and villas.

Civil engineers used all modern progressive building materials. Buildings were very cheap. Roofs were flat, exterior masonry was rejointed, partition walls were made of hollow bricks or from lathed joists.

Houses reminded cubes-boxes.Třebíč‘s public called them just “boxes“.

There were not any fences beetween the houses. In the garden people could not cultivate vegetables and fruit trees. They could cultivate only flowers, trees and bushes. During the Second World War management of the factory allowed to plant some vegetables.

The Baťa company gave the colony a new name “New Borovina“. There were Baťa´s shopping centre, a community house, a dance floor in the country, a school, a post office, a nine-storey dormitory, a fire station, a railway station Řípov (today Borovina), etc.

At the beginning of the sixties the houses belonged to people´s committee (of Třebíč) and in the second half of the sixties private people bought them. People gradually modified the houses.

Today the city quarter is getting changed. Houses don´t look identically any more. Owners repair their houses according to their taste.