Abstract

The author participated in the scientific conference 15th International Passive House Conference 2011, which was held (May 26-30, 2011) in Innsbruck. The conference program also included visits to several buildings that were built according to Passive House principles, among which was the Agrarzentrum West in Imst, about 50 km from Innsbruck. The author was fascinated by the symbiosis of people and nature, people and domestic animals, which was indicated by the ubiquitous billboards with images of people in 'hugs with domestic animals'. The author first became acquainted with the symbiosis of humans and domestic animals in the Katun settlement of Gradina above the Umoljani village on the plateau of the Bjelasnica Mountain. In 2015-2017, the author worked on the extensive project “Bosnian chardaklija house” when he visited the entire area of Bosnia and Herzegovina and processed about 60 examples of Bosnian chardaklija house. Many of them are presented in published scientific works. In the region of Bosnian Krajina, he encountered specific solutions of the Bosnian chardaklija house, where people and domestic animals live under the same roof. Author was fascinated by these solutions, and especially the reasons that generated them. This paper presents some of these houses.