Vernacular Architecture Flashcards
vernacular architecture
Architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings
vernacular architecture features
Non-high style building
Structures not designed by professionals
Not monumental / un-sophisticated
Earlier in architecture history, historians would ignore these types of structures, seeing them as not architecture
Today is different and we can learn a lot from these buildings
Wigwam
These circular dome-shaped dwellings were made from available bark and saplings lashed together with strips of spruce roots or babiche (rawhide)
Used everything from nature
Wigwam size
small housed two families
Tepee / Tipi
A conical native American home composed of wooden poles and covered
with skins
Tepee / Tipi location
Common in North American Plains
Yurt (central Asia and Mongolia)
Portable circular tent used by nomadic peoples of Central Asia
who used a Yurt
pre/early people of the Ottoman empire
Reason Ottoman empire was so successful
they were used to the quick moving life of travel and war
Yurt material
Made with wool that was turned into felt
felt
non woven fabric
Igloo
Constructed with blocks of snow in the from of a dome
who used Igloos
Inuit people
Matakam Tribal Village (Cameroon)
Multi-room houses composed of separate round huts
Matakam Tribal Village materials
Walls are constructed of mud, with roofs of thatch
Trulli Houses (Italy)
Built with limestone with conical roofs
As the family grew they would add a new unit
Matmata Houses (North Africa)
Underground houses composed of individual cells dedicated for various purposes
Matmata Houses (North Africa) why underground
because of climate
Too hot to build above ground and cool underground