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  2. Geestharden house - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Igbo architecture - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Minka - Wikipedia

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    The primary purpose of shaping minka roofs was to accommodate the extensive precipitation experienced in many parts of Japan. A steeply peaked roof allows rain and snow to fall straight off, preventing water from getting through the roof into the home and, to a lesser extent, preventing the thatch from getting too wet and beginning to rot. [20 ...

  5. Songhai architecture - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Thatching - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Cape Dutch architecture - Wikipedia

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    The houses are also usually H-shaped, with the front section of the house usually being flanked by two wings running perpendicular to it. The Cape Dutch architectural style is defined by the following characteristics: Whitewashed walls; Thatched roofing; Large wooden sash cottage panes; External wooden shutters

  8. Choga (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  9. Bunong house - Wikipedia

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    The traditional Bunong house is built with almost no legs and has a thatched grass roof and flattened bamboo walls. [1]The architecture is close to the conical Mbaru Niang house of rumah adat traditional houses built in any of the vernacular architecture styles of Indonesia, collectively belonging to the Austronesian architecture.