Most original form of Serbian folk architecture in our country is without a doubt, log cabin osacanka. Between dinar wooden houses, as appointed by individual researchers, ethnologists and historians of architecture and chalets osacanke can be set equal sign. The most recognizable form osacanke still encountered in Sumadiji, central and western parts of Serbia, eastern Bosnia and the Drina Basin. However, it is likely that this type of structure present in Kosovo, Montenegro, Bosnia, and elsewhere in the Balkans. This form carries almost typed with the right name of the Serbian builders from Osato who have successfully adapted the archaic form old wooden houses, new conditions, new ethnic groups living needs of our region. B. Kojic, believed that the developed type osacanke appeared after 1820th and that the osacanka is the representative, of an entire architecture in wood. "
Osacanka is generally composed of two parts: the house and rooms. The house is central, elemental part of the structure corresponding to the primary purpose. This is the place where the fire is burning, where the cook and eat, where they perform other tasks, in a word, to the place of the family community. The room is intended for the ceremony and stay in the winter during major cold. Unlike a house that has no ceiling for the smoke free exit to the opening of the roof, the ceiling is covered with dried grass. Below is a basement room, which means that (as dinar house) this facility is set on the ground with a slope that is buried and the stone wall formed the foundation.
What osacanku divides from all other similar forms of folk architecture is the concept of the roof. These are steep pyramidal roofs on four water dominating edifice was to be viewed from a distance or at close range.
Compared with the traditional architecture of other people, log osacanka originating from the Balkans, with a single roof in four of water, a kind of rarity and it's a wonder that did not cause greater research attention to folk architecture in our community and in the European region.
House osacanka in the Serbian region of eastern, western Serbia, Sumadija and Morava and in other regions did not exceed the modest scale of the spatial resolution and internal organization. First of all, the concept of the roof is allowed only small corrections, but not great ranges that would significantly disrupt the foundation of the building. On the other hand, the family community organizations involved the separation of married members in separate buildings, a shed, which only led to increased number of residential units of some families.
On the craft side, osacanska builders - builders of osacanke, were experienced and skilled craftsmen like their descendants today Serbs from Osat, municipality of Srebrenica, which is mainly engaged in this activity. They were familiar with the technological process of work, and thanks to the good organization of work for almost record time ended they started building.
Wood is often selected in the woods, not cut. The sound that was obtained when the tree hit a certain metal object was the only measure of quality, whether it's the need for fundamental beams, logs or timber roofing material.
Author of the stamp: Bozidar Dosenovic
Publisher: Poste Srpske a.d.
Cooperation: Dragic Glisic, The Archaeological Museum
"Roman Municipium" Skelani Srebrenica
