Bogdanović refused to participate in the planning of national housing estates which looked like coffins of concrete to him and had only two types of windows. Consequently, he built only a single settlement: a housing estate for the hydrotechnical institute Jaroslav Černi at the foot of the mountain Avala near Belgrade, finished in 1953. The houses are mostly built of stone; and with their surrealistic, old-fashioned style, heavily framed windows and oversized chimneys, they are deliberately set apart from the international style that dominated in post-WW2 Yugoslavia.