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International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Growth Evaluation

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The Kozic Family House in Jasenik Near Konjic

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Abstract

The Kozic family house is located in the Jesenik village, on the northern edge of the Konjic municipality, 20 km away from Buturovic Polje, and 42 km from the Konjic town. The village is developed on the steep slopes of the Zec mountain which rise from the bed of the river Neretva, with southern and eastern exposure. Although the altitude of the village is quite high (about 1100 m), the climate is favorable, where agriculture, fruit growing and animal husbandry are the main occupation of the people. In its original design, the Kozic family house belonged to the type of two-tract chardaklia with geographical and ambient features of the chardaklia house in the region of Upper Herzegovina. Similar examples of such a house can still be found in the Gorani village near Buturovic Polje. The house is located on a sloping terrain with an eastern exposure. It is developed through the basement, ground floor and first floor. The first level of the basement ('magaza') was developed in the middle of the contour of the ground floor, with one open side (oriented to the east) while the other three sides were buried in the ground. The ground floor level is developed above the basement and the part that is buried in the ground, with the floor on the ground. The floor level was accessed by a staircase, made partly of stone and partly of wood ('basamaci'). The staircase first led to the divanhana space, from here to the anteroom with access to two chardaks. The east-facing chardak was the main room with a representatively made wooden wall battery ('musandera'). Although the subsequent additions to the original of the Kozic family house follow the housing needs of newly formed families, they were not done with the awareness of preserving the enormous architectural-historical and ambient values of this house. The inclusion of this house on the list of national monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina will eliminate these shortcomings, and the physical structure of the house, since its preservation, will be able to carry the enormous embodied energy of housing culture generated there over a long period, about 240 years.

 

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Ahmet Hadrovic (2023). The Kozic Family House in Jasenik Near Konjic . International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Growth Evaluation (IJMRGE), 4(3), 176-186.

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