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Earth House
• This unique house is located in Switzerland.
It is an earth house, an architectural style
characterized by the use of natural terrain to
help form the walls of a house. An earth
house is usually set partially into the ground
and covered with thin growth, and is often
intended to have a small ecological footprint.


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Rondavel
• This pretty amazing house is called a rondavel, a
traditional African-style house. They are usually
round in shape and traditionally made with
materials that can be locally obtained in raw
form. The rondavel's walls are often constructed
from stones. The mortar may consist of sand, soil,
or some combinations of these mixed with dung.
The floor is finished with a processed dung
mixture to make it smooth. The roof braces of a
rondavel are made out of tree limbs, which have
been harvested and cut to length. The roof itself is
made out of thatch that is sewn to the wooden
braces with rope made out of grass.

Shell House
• One distinct house is the Shell house. It is the
most original house in Mexico or maybe in the
world. It is one of the most beautiful houses
you will surely enjoy. It is located in Isla
Mujeres northeast of Yucatan peninsula in the
Caribbean Sea.


Rumah gadang
• Rumah gadang which means "big house," are the
traditional homes of the Minangkabau in
Indonesia. The architecture, construction, internal
and external decoration, and the functions of the
house reflect the culture and values of the
Minangkabau. A rumah gadang serves as a
residence, a hall for family meetings,
and for ceremonial activities. With the
Minangkabau society being matrilineal, the
rumah gadang is owned by the women of the
family who live there - ownership is passed
from mother to daughter.

Toda Hut
• The peculiar hut of a Toda Tribe of Nilgiris, India
is noted for the decoration of the front wall, and
the very small door. The Toda people are a small
pastoral community who live on the isolated
Nilgiri plateau of Southern India. Prior to the
late eighteenth century, the Toda coexisted locally
with other communities, including the Badaga,
Kota, and Kurumba, in a loose caste-like
community organization in which the Toda were
the top ranking.

Korowai Tree House
• This bizarre house is home to the bizarre tribe
called the Korowai or also called the Kolufo.
They are a people of southeastern Papua (i.e., the
southeastern part of the western part of New
Guinea). Until the 1970s, they were unaware of
the existence of any people besides themselves
and some immediately neighboring villages. Only
a few of them have become literate thus far. They
are one of the few surviving peoples in the world
that are thought to possibly still engage in
cannibalism. Others dispute this, saying that these
practices ended decades ago and that there have
been no reported instances of cannibalism in over
twenty years.

Trulli House
• Trulli houses, distinguished by
conical stone roofs, are
traditional in the southeastern
region Apulia, Italy.


Palloza
• A palloza is a traditional thatched house as
found in the in Galicia, Spain. They are
circular or oval, and about ten ortwenty
meters in diameter. These houses are built to
withstand severe winter weather at a typical
altitude of 1,200 meters. The main structure is
stone, and is divided internally into separate
areas for the family and their animals, with
separate entrances. The roof is conical, made
from rye straw on a wooden frame. There is no
chimney, the smoke from the kitchen fire seeps
out through the thatch.

Icelandic Farmhouse
• Earth sheltering is the architectural practice of
using earth against building walls for external
thermal mass, to reduce heat loss, and to easily
maintain a steady indoor air temperature. Earth
sheltering is popular in modern times among
advocates of passive solar and sustainable
architecture, but has been around for nearly as
long as humans have been constructing their own
shelter. The picture above is Earth covered farm
houses located in Keldur, Iceland.

Crannog
• A crannog is an artificial island, usually
originally built in lakes, rivers and estuarine
waters, and most often used as an island
settlement or dwelling place in prehistoric or
medieval times. The name itself may refer to a
wooden platform erected on shallow floors,
but few remains of this sort have been found


Mardin Stone Houses Turkey
• This Arab-style architecture is located in
Mardin, a city in southeastern Turkey. It is
commonly recognized for its Arab-style
architecture, and it also has a strategic
position on a rocky mountain overlooking
the plains of northern Syria.


Beehive Mud Houses: Harran, Turkey
• These traditional mud houses are located in
Harran. The interesting thing about them is
that they were constructed entirely without the
use of wood. The design of these mud houses is
believed to have stayed the same
for at least 3,000 years, until about the 1980s,
when they officially stopped being used as
living space.


Tongkonan
• Toraja People House: Sulawesi, Indonesia
These distinctive wooden houses have curved
roofs with tall gable ends that make them look
likes boats. The houses are built on stilts and
are entered by curved steps and beautifully
decorated doorways. They are the homes of the
Toraja peoples, who live in central Sulawesi


House of Marsh Arabs: Iraq
• The Houses of the Marsh Arabs are built from
reeds. They are often constructed on floating
platforms woven from tips of reeds still
growing up out of the swamp. The people
travel around by canoe. The Marsh Arabs'
lifestyle is threatened by drainage projects that
are taking water from swamps, causing them to
dry up.


Log Cabin House: USA
• The log cabin house is among the
first house designs of early
America. It is sturdy and easy to
construct, and can be built by
hand to provide shelter in a very
short period of time.


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