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The accommodation and living areas are housed under one roof, but unlike the Low German Hall House they are not joined. The house has a two-post (Zweiständer) design, whereby the posts, which support the usually-thatched roof half-hipped roof, are near to the outer walls. From the late 18th century the roof in the living area has been carried ...
Igbo Thatched Architecture Exterior A traditional igbo building palm Thatching. Thatch is utilized in Igbo architecture and it is the main traditional roofing method. Materials used in thatching include grass, palm leaves, or reeds, which are layered and woven onto the roof frame to create the thatched roof and bamboo.
Straw-thatched house at the historic village of Shirakawa-go, a World Heritage Site in Japan Korean traditional straw thatched house. Thatch is popular in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, parts of France, Sicily, Belgium and Ireland. There are more than 60,000 thatched roofs in the United Kingdom and over 150,000 in the ...
A typical rural Songhai house is either round with mud walls or rectangular with walls made of sun-dried mud bricks, often featuring thatched roofs. The Songhai predominantly reside in houses within walled or fenced enclosures, which usually include a main house for the husband and smaller dwellings for each of his wives and their children.
Choga is named after and characterised by its straw thatched-roof; to be distinguished from giwa, its tiled-roof counterpart. Choga was the representative housing for the working class in Korea from prehistoric times until mid 20th century. [ 5 ]
It is a two-story, thatched-roof cottage, with a stucco exterior. Its main entrance faces the street on the east. One brick chimney sits against the building's north wall. Strapwork and nine double-hung sash windows run around the building. The roof is a steep-pitched gable with two shed wall dormer windows on the east side.
The German name, Fachhallenhaus, is a regional variation of the term Hallenhaus ("hall house", sometimes qualified as the "Low Saxon hall house").In the academic definition of this type of house the word Fach does not refer to the Fachwerk or "timber-framing" of the walls, but to the large Gefach or "bay" between two pairs of the wooden posts (Ständer) supporting the ceiling of the hall and ...
A typical house is 10 by 10 meters high, 2 to 3 meters above the ground, supported by wood and bamboo, the walls and floors are woven with bamboo, and the roof is a sloping thatched roof supported by bamboo poles. The house is usually divided into an inner bedroom and an outer living room with a fireplace for the kitchen.