Different Types of Houses Around the

World

By Victoria, William, koko

Tepee (Native American House)

Tepees are the transferable cone shaped house of Native American who move to live for hunting.   When they move, they carry the poles on the horses.   The house is 3.5 to 5.5 meters high and there is the exhaust pipe in the center of the house. The house is covered by buffalo hide. In these days, they use campus cloth in stead. They only use them when the festival is held.  

White Houses Santorini Island, Greece

The entrance of the Island is fully filled with the white houses on the cliff.   The Island used to be an active volcano and the eruption around 1500 B.C. created this unique shape of the Island.

GelSouth Gobi Desert, Mongolia

Gel is the Mongolian transferable nomad house.   They move the house when their domestic animals have eaten the grass in that area.   The main 2 poles in the center support the house with the framework.   They cover the framework with the white cloth filled with wool and hair of the domestic animals.   In the center, they place the stove and the ceiling can be opened for the smoke.   During the severe winter, they make double cover on the ceiling.

Wooden Frame Houses

Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

The wooden frame houses are very popular in Germany.   They use the bricks for the wall and paint over the bricks which become very strong and last for hundreds of years.   The wooden frames make them possible to have many windows.  

Cueba (Underground

Houses)Andalucia, SpainIn Andulucia of south Spain,

the underground house, ‘Cueba' could keep cool inside even it is over 40 degrees outside and keep inside warm during the winter.