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Images of Travellers' lifestyle - Building a Bender tent Devon County Council. Image "Family living in a bender circa 1930" p30 'The Forest Bus Mobile Project'. Sketches from book Gypsy witchcraft and magic ISBN 978-1-56718-097-8; POLE TENTS VS. FRAME TENTS: A QUICK GUIDE TO TYPES OF TENTS
Elk Lakes Cabin Interior - Living Area. The kitchen area and living room offer tables and a wood-burning stove. The sleeping quarters are in a loft. Sleepers occupy two long bunks and one shorter one. The hut offers water buckets, axes, saws and shovels. A tributary of Elkan Creek runs nearby. In winter, water is there and from snowmelt. Water ...
As there was a limited window of time for building, the new arrivals built pithouses as warm shelters for the winter. Some of these homes remained occupied until the 1970s. Pithouses were built by excavating a well defined hole into the ground, usually around 6" to 18" deep but occasionally as deep as four to five feet, and creating walls and ...
An igloo (Inuit languages: iglu, [1] Inuktitut syllabics ᐃᒡᓗ (plural: igluit ᐃᒡᓗᐃᑦ)), also known as a snow house or snow hut, is a type of shelter built of suitable snow. Although igloos are often associated with all Inuit , they were traditionally used only by the people of Canada's Central Arctic and the Qaanaaq area of ...
Mathias, Tova, and their son Ivar live in a 160-square-foot cabin in the wilderness of northern Sweden. The family moved into their home, which has no electricity or water, eight years ago.
Forest Village by Ashida Architect & Associates Co. is a series of huts that allow people to reconnect to nature and each other. S(hovel) by Modern Office + Sumer Singh is a small shelter that takes an ordinary winter object and reimagines it as a place to inhabit, and all 194 shovels are donated afterwards. 2019 - Hoverbox, Huttie, Weathermen [9]
In the Alps, similar buildings, known as raccards, are still in use as granaries. In England, granaries are placed on staddle stones, similar to stilts, to prevent mice and rats getting to the grain. In Italy there are several stilt-houses settlements, for example the one on the Rocca di Manerba del Garda.
Woodcutters' huts are as old as forestry itself. To begin with, temporary accommodation was usually built for the clearing of areas of forest, but they became more permanent in the High Middle Ages in Europe as more and more timber was felled for mining, saltworks, shipbuilding and firewood, in order to reduce the distance from home to workplace.