4 - Home spaces

Question 1

Nomadic communities

Answer 1

Teepee/tipi
Yurt or Ger
Igloo

Question 2

Contemporary nomadic communities

Answer 2

Romani caravans (1500s)
conestoga wagons (1700s) American settlement
Amsterdam post war houseboats (1940s)
Tiny house movement (1970s)
Mobile home/van (post covid)

Question 3

Vernacular architecture

Answer 3

Not necessarily designed by an architect
Unique to particular region
Responds to context and specific needs + values of a culture
Uses local materials and construction techniques

Question 4

Vernacular architecture - examples

Answer 4

Cameroon mugsum mud huts
Iranian troglodytic housing

Question 5

Case - Queenslander

Answer 5

Not fully vernacular:
Features and originated through colonial occupation of India, Sri Lanka and China
Local timber, but imported materials (tin roofs, balustrading)

Question 6

Middle Ages,
Europe

Answer 6

Dense communal living
Feudal estates

Question 7

Planned communities,
China

Answer 7

Fujian Tulou, Hakka houses
Defensive structures
Built out of timber of mud
Inward facing apartments for families, housing up to 800 people
High level of comfort and decoration

Question 8

Roman planned communities

Answer 8

Orthogonal streets
Aqueducts and drainage
Designed for the accessibility for armies to move through quickly
Large Class and wealth disparity

Question 9

Roman planned communities

Answer 9

Orthogonal streets
Aqueducts and drainage
Designed for the accessibility for armies to move through quickly
Large Class and wealth disparity

Question 10

Haussmann Parisian Apartments

Answer 10

Example of class structure
1st floor - businesses, retail, offices - high ceilings, thick walls
2nd - wealthy, nobility - high windows + ceilings, ornate detailing
3rd - servant quarters - in roof space

Question 11

Public housing,
Germany

Answer 11

Fuggerei Germany
1500s - catholic only, yearly rent of one Reinischer Gulden (still active)
Each house, two 200m2

Question 12

Informal communities
Brazil, India

Answer 12

Brazil - Rocinha Favelas
Adhoc housing with informal rules
Highlights income disparity (proximity to wealthy areas)

India - Dharavi Slums, Mumbai
Individual housing built 1884 (British colonial rule)
Built apartments isolated communities previously created within slums

Question 13

Public housing, USA

Answer 13

Pruitt-Igoe
Built 1956, demolished 1974, 18 buildings
Pruitt / black residents
Igoe / white residents
Desegregation meant that residents could live in either building - Igoe emptied
Predominately black residents remained, maintenance of building severely decreased

Question 14

Institutions as home spaces

Answer 14

Age care
Hospitals
Prisons

Question 15

Victorian Home Spaces

Answer 15

1837-1901 England
Compartmentalised space, as microcosm
Gender and class separation
Boudoir, Morning rooms
Snookery, Bars, Smoking rooms