Brnjic Village Near Kakanj: Museum of the Bosnian Chardaklia Houses

The Brnjic village is located in the central part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the Kakanj municipality. It is 12 km from Kakanj by air, and 17 km from Zenica (Geographic coordinates: 44º13'51.14''N, 18º07'18.36''E, Elevation: 797 m). This village, as well as a large number of surrounding villages (Starposle, Basici, Pedici, Turalici, Hodzici, Varalici, Podborje) in the Ribnica river valley, can be reached by a relatively good paved road which, due to work on the exploitation of stone in the quarry, has been devastated in places. The Brnjic village is a typical Bosnian village located on a wide slope of a river valley, under a forest with pastures, above a vast strip of arable land. The rich orchards cultivated by humans complete the picture of the symbiosis of man and nature in the best expression of this term. According to the 2013 census, 322 inhabitants, all Bosniaks, lived in it, in 106 households. Several families live in the Brnjic village: Kovac, Merdic, Skulj, Sljivo and Colak. There is no settlement in Bosnia and Herzegovina with so many preserved Bosnian chardaklia houses. The houses have different levels of preservation of the original solutions since their structures have been adapted over time to the new needs of man. The 'metamorphosis' of the spatial-physical structure of the houses was 'evolutionary', whereby the transition from the original design to the present state can be clearly followed