BOSNAIN TRADITIONAL AND

OTTOMAN HOUSE

Melisa Sabic
5th May, 2015
International University of Sarajevo //FENS Architecture//Fall Semester 2015//ARCH 368

TRADITIONAL BOSNIAN HOUSE

Reflects the connection between
a man and natural conditions
like
Climate
Vegetation and
Construction material

PERENNIAL PRINCIPLES
Orientation
Privacy of family life
Purity of the place
Purity of inhabitants
Respect towards nature
Respect towards the
others

CHARACTHERISTICS OF TRADITONAL BOSNIAN

HOUSE
Ground horizon all
functions performed on the
ground sitting, sleeping,
cooking reflecting the
organization and furniture
assembly
Individual character of self
standing building
Pitched roof as a main
functional and formal
element

CRITERIA FOR TYPOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION

OF THE BOSNIAN HOUSE

Anthropological
Geographical
Cultural
Historical
Location and setting
Material
Functional and Spatial organization
Form

BASIC TYPOLOGY OF
TRADITIONAL BOSNIAN HOUSE

Various types of the

timber house
Some types of the
stone houses
Some varieties of the
adobe

BUNJA_circular stone hut

-circular dry stone wall spread around the Mediterranean-in Bosnia
some Bunjas are presented in Duvno
-an old pre-Slavenic type of house used in the areas where there is
no wood as a construction material
-it disappeared because circular form did not allow extension and
evolution the house

Various types of the timber house:

SINGLE GROUND FLOOR
HOUSE
-a single space ground floor
that might be log, stone or
adobe house
- has a shape that does not
depend on the material
-evolution of the timber
and stone house is
different and when it
develops the new
diversifying types are
established

LOG HOUSE CHARDAK BETWEEN THE RAFTERS

-form of the timber house

that expresses the
economy of the space
- house is developed in
vertical sense
-volume of the roof space
is used for one or two
rooms that are called
chardak
-chardak is usually above
the room


LOG HOUSE HOUSE ABOVE MAGAZA

-the ground floor is magaza, a shelter for

animals
-magaza, constructed in stone
-the space above magaza is timber structure
composed of kitchen and rooms.
-The fire place is open

DIMALUAR_house with smoke shaft

-best solution for house problemsorganization of space, construction,
possibility of the partition..
-the smoke is disposed through a shaft
(dimaluk) and then dispersed into the roof
space-the smoke conserved timber roof
construction
-dimaluk _ meat smoking
-the upper floor is approached by wooden
stairs, and on the first floor there is a
gallery from which the rooms can be
entered
-Abdestluk (the ablution place) and small
storage , on the gallery, sometimes there is
an extension with the toilet as well.

CHARDAKLIJA-house with projection -has two floors

-ground floor is magaza,
upper floor living space
with fireplace
-first floor projects over
the all four walls of the
ground floor
-toilet as a overhanging
structure
-type of dimaluara house
with smoke shaft in the
center

Stone house types -ground floor house

Can be single space house

Today are used as a shelter for animals
Ground floor with more rooms and saddled roof is common
in the south of Bosnia
Can be developed in longitudinal direction by adding more
spaces

STONE CHARDAK

-chardak, the Persian

word chartaq (charfour and taq-arch)
-most raised, elevated
space outwardly
oriented and is
overhanging timber
projection above the
stone walls
-stone chardaks in
Neretvica, have three
floors with magaza

STURCTURAL
ELEMENTS
- details

Ottoman house_Safranbolu
Stone walled ground

floor(animal stable, storage)

Upstairs wood paneled walls
with cupboards for bedding
and low tables
Multifunctionality of the room
Fireplace built of the stone
Houses with five facades
Two or three stories
Ample windows
Open to the street
Extensions

ELEMENTS OF OTTOMAN HOUSE FORM

IN BOSNIAN IN RELATION TO
AUTOHTONE FORMATIVE ELEMENTS
-characteristics not found in the other cultures
-Two-story differentiation of the house
-Only the ground floor adapted to the site,
edging up to the street front
-Articulation from the street inwards
-Particular functional spaces at the GF
-Upper floor aggregated by square or rectangular
rooms without functional demarcation
Individual sitting in the garden

References:
http://www.balkaninside.com/inspiring-architecture/
http://cipa.icomos.org/fileadmin/template/doc/PRAGUE/144.
pdf
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/251227239_The_re
vival_of_the_traditional_Bosnian_wood_dwellings
http://www.kultur.gov.tr/EN,36830/turkish-houses.html