Vernacular Architecture

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vernacular architecture

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Architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings

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vernacular architecture features

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Non-high style building
Structures not designed by professionals
Not monumental / un-sophisticated

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Earlier in architecture history, historians would ignore these types of structures, seeing them as not architecture

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Today is different and we can learn a lot from these buildings

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Wigwam

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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

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Wigwam size

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small housed two families

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Tepee / Tipi

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A conical native American home composed of wooden poles and covered
with skins

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Tepee / Tipi location

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Common in North American Plains

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Yurt (central Asia and Mongolia)

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Portable circular tent used by nomadic peoples of Central Asia

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who used a Yurt

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pre/early people of the Ottoman empire

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Reason Ottoman empire was so successful

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they were used to the quick moving life of travel and war

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Yurt material

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Made with wool that was turned into felt

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felt

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non woven fabric

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Igloo

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Constructed with blocks of snow in the from of a dome

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who used Igloos

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Inuit people

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Matakam Tribal Village (Cameroon)

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Multi-room houses composed of separate round huts

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Matakam Tribal Village materials

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Walls are constructed of mud, with roofs of thatch

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Trulli Houses (Italy)

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Built with limestone with conical roofs
As the family grew they would add a new unit

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Matmata Houses (North Africa)

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Underground houses composed of individual cells dedicated for various purposes

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Matmata Houses (North Africa) why underground

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because of climate
Too hot to build above ground and cool underground

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Dwellings at Mesa Verde (Colorado - green table in Spanish)

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Cliff Palace
Pueblo people

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Peasant’s cottage

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England

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Peasant’s cottage layout

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All one room for everything
Multi-functional open hall (kitchen, dining living)
Lofted space for sleeping quarters

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peasant’s cottage roof

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Thatched roof

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Peasant’s cottage heating

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A hearth to warm the interior and to cook

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Peasant's cottage walls

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wooden frame and was plastered with wattle and daub (a mixture of mud straw and manure)

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Peasant's cottage floors

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straw used for lining the floor

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Yurts purpose

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just for the interior shelter they provided not sculptural objects

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Safranbolu

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city Sultan's son had to be able to rule before gaining the whole empire and has many traditional Turkish housing today

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Traditional Turkish house

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Interior more important than exterior Furniture and space planning determines the shell of the building

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Interior architecture

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the furniture is built-in and melts into the architecture Is the structure and decorative components all together

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Each room works like a house itself

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Spaces convert to bedrooms at night

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Unity of one room more important than the unity of the whole building

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Multi-generational houses with families in each room Some houses have several rooms with different builders with different styles

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Divan

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Bed?

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Harem

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room for women and children Other male family members can be there just not strangers

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Selamlik

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room for men to go to and do business

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Water basin inside of rooms?

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to keep the space cool

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Continuous shelf above windows

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Place fragrant fruits to make space smell better

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wood work with no glue or nails / all done with joints

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Kundekari

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Turkish room

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informal with no specific seating arrangement and care for bodily comfort

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Kilim

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fabric that doesn’t pile, but is made of wool

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Most used textiles so far in Turkish rooms, why?

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When the ottomans were nomadic they had sheep and produced wool and other textiles

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Safranbolu Asmazlar Konagi exterior

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Construction done at different times Painted white walls Cumba - bay-like windows

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Arab House

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courtyard house

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how was the Arab house designed for a severe climate

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Horizontal and vertical nomadism: inhabitants move within the house and live in the most comfortable spaces in terms of temperature and ventilation. South facing rooms with low ceilings and larger windows (to capture sun) in winter

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How was the Arab house different

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Closed to the outside, inverted design

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ventilation techniques in an Arab house

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Wind scoops and wind towers

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Hancock Shaker Village

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Hancock, New York 1820

Question 48

First shakers came to America from England in ____ and why?

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1774 to seek freedom from religious persecution

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Religious beliefs forbade wordly ostentation

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Shaker designed favored efficient use of human effort Simplicity and functional objects/spaces