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The yurt, traditional dwelling of Mongolian nomads, is a circular structure supported by a collapsible wooden frame and covered with wool felt. In Mongolian, a yurt is known as a ger (гэр). During the 12th and 13th centuries, ger-tereg (yurts on carts) were built for rulers.
It is built of a light wooden frame covered with reindeer skins or canvas sewn together. The word yaranga comes from the Chukchi word for house: jaraŋə (Cyrillic: яраӈы). [2] In Russian use, the terms chum, yurt and yaranga may be used interchangeably.
Traditional yurts on the steppes between Ulaanbaatar and Kharkhorin. Yurts in eastern Afghanistan Kyrgyz yurts, Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. Traditional yurts consist of an expanding wooden circular frame carrying a felt cover. The felt is made from the wool of the flocks of sheep that accompany the pastoralists.
Snout house: a house with the garage door being the closest part of the dwelling to the street. Octagon house: a house of symmetrical octagonal floor plan, popularized briefly during the 19th century by Orson Squire Fowler; Stilt house: is a house built on stilts above a body of water or the ground (usually in swampy areas prone to flooding).
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Reconstruction of a peat goahti at Skansen open-air museum A reconstruction of a wooden goahti A Sami family in front of goahti. The tent in the background is a lavvu. Note the differences in the pole placement of the two structures. This photo was taken around 1900 in northern Scandinavia.