Midwestern German And Belgian Cultural Styles

They have two different types of housing, one for the summer and one for the winter. The winter house would be circular in design made of mud and wattle construction, partially sunk in the ground and well insulated. The summer house were wooden structure and had a gabled roof, a porch and a balcony.

Shelter: Lived in Teepees and oval-shaped longhouses. They lived in groups of extended families near streams and rivers. The length of houses varied, but it could be over 100 feet long. These were used for ceremonial purposes and to house many families during the winter.

Each family had its own lot and some having up to four houses in addition some having two-story structure. Every house had its own purpose to a family for example; one house would hold food storage for winter other houses would be used for entertainment.

Due to this loss, houses became very overcrowded to the point where families had to live in a single room. This would be where they would cook, eat, sleep and socialise. Rooms to rent became very popular.

Tribe members were very efficient and had came up with a housing system for the changing seasons. This housing system had the Narragansett changing houses for winter and summer. For the winter they lived in longhouses. “Up to 20 families would live in” a single longhouse over the winter, (Early History, Narragansett Indian Tribe). When summer would come along “the tribe would move to the shore and construct Wigwams or Wetus, temporary shelter made of bark on the outside and woven mats on the inside,”(Early History, Narragansett Indian Tribe. This housing system shows how these natives handled the changing seasons in New England.

the new settlers were wise about their choice to build their houses.they choose to make their home made out of brick so that their house will have a firm foundation and they also used other materials to but the purpose of the sturdy houses was to keep intruders out like

The longhouse, much like the village, offered the inhabitants a sense of unity. The longhouse was built for multiple families not just for one. These houses are monstrous. Almost all of the houses are 20 feet high and 20 feet wide, the only differences are the length which varied. The houses were then divided up into sections which allowed for multiple families to live there. Normally, each family had a 20 by 20 by 20 areas to use as their own. However, normally the center of the house was a common area which was used for fire and for everything else in the house.

In early years of the colony, there life was quite difficult. Lots of the colonists lived in simple structures such as dugouts, wigwams, and dirt-floor huts Later in time construction of nomes and small shacks improved, and began to be sheathed in clapboard, with thatch roofs and wooden chimneys. More rich people would extend their house by adding a leanto on the back witch

Well most Iroquois lived in longhouses. Longhouses could house about 30 families and were 60 feet long and 15 feet wide. They would make multiple fires keeping the whole house warm.

They never had just one house or cabin they stayed out. Where they slept depended on where the cows were and what time of the year it was. This helped to shape the author in many different ways. When it came time to trial the cows to a new pasture or to the train to be hauled to slaughter he had to sleep outside next to a wagon. During winter he stayed at a winter cabin with one room, a little fire place and no bed. During the hard winters he had to go out and gather cows up in blizzards and freezing weather and bring them back closer to the cabin where they could get some hay to survive. In those days there was no corrals for the cows to be put to feed or places they could be held over night. If they did not have someone out there to bring them to where the hay was they would starve to death and money would be lost. This was also one of Ike's duties of that time period that helped shape

The size and quality of houses differed counter to their relative prosperity, and that prosperity usually depended on the amount of land held. Poor peasants lived in windowless wood houses which thatched with straw. Such a house comprised a large room that served as the kitchen and living quarters for all. Living space was dark, smoky, and smelly, with animals

The design solutions for individual Shaker buildings were often formulated in response to the demands of communal living. Buildings that were used by both men and women, such as meetinghouses and dwellings, incorporated separate entrances and stairways as their beliefs were imposed the separation of the sexes. The interior space of Shaker meetinghouses had particular requirements such as to include large, uninterrupted floor space in order to allow for their religious dances as well as requiring a huge truss to support the roof. Dwellings included communal rooms on the ground floor but thoroughly segregated bedrooms on the floors above. These large dwellings also necessitated the introduction of interior windows to bring in the natural light into dark interior rooms to complement each other.

Fox, James J. 1993. “Inside Austronesian Houses: Perspectives on Domestic Designs for Living.” The Journal of Asian Studies 203-205.

We can notice clearly in this house how Sullivan’s teaching and Japanese prints influenced Wright’s design. In general for the Prairie houses, Frank Lloyd Wright used all of those influences to had a radically different idea of the function and appearance of residences. The use of horizontal lines is crucial in this design because they define how the volumes and other elements of the house are displayed, making it look longer and lower than other type of dwellings. Sullivan’s idea about the importance of a building’s interior can be seen in this house design because Wright actually took that and extended the interior outside the house. Moreover, Wright started experimenting with materials that allowed him to materialize his

     The Traditional Chinese houses have many differences in comparison with the North American houses. The building materials used in construction is the most distinct difference from North American’s. A typical Chinese farmhouse is built of sun-dried bricks or pounded earth, because wood is too expensive and scarce to use. On the other hand, many typical Northern American houses are built of wood. In addition to the variations of building materials used in constriction, the architectural planning of a traditional Chinese houses is also unique. A traditional Chinese house is built according to the “Court-yard System'; where by houses are built around a courtyard which is invisible to the outside. Windows are covered by a thin oiled paper which is also invisible in order to protect robbery and keep privacy. Nowadays, the traditional housing system seldom appears in Hong Kong because it is too expensive and may cost millions of dollars. Moreover, the housing in Hong Kong is usually apartments and skyscrapers which is different from the ancient China.