Abstract

The first examples of using water and wind energy are related to grinding grains into flour. Mills were the first 'industrial' objects in which some form of energy (most often the power of the water flow) was used as the driving force in the technological process. Bosnia and Herzegovina abounds with examples of folk architecture that is organized on the principles of bioclimatic architecture: individual residential buildings (rural and urban), residential complexes (Velagicevina on Buna river, Begovina near Stolac, Ilidza settlement, Gornji Seher in Banjaluka...), utilitarian architecture ( mills, woolen cloth presses - stupa, fruit drying, corn and wheat warehouses) ... Majadani in the Ocevlje village near Vares are examples of bioclimatic utilitarian architecture in Bosnia and Herzegovina. By the way of using water power, architectural and technological organization of space, design and parts of details, they are a brilliant way of expressing national genius and a way of beautiful and purposeful human creations.