1. The different physical characteristics of a building
according to the materials happened to be available on that
particular place with a particular climate, cultural aspects, social
status, etc.
WHAT IS
?
AR 553 HOUSING
2. SHELTER
to covers, protects or defends ourselves from
harmful elements and changes
To have a COMFORTABLE
LIVING
4. A free-standing
residential building. It
means that the
building does not
share an inside
wall with any other
house.
A Northern European single-family home in Denmark.
5. It consist of pairs of
houses side by side as
units. They share
a party wall.
6. A row of identical
houses that are
joined together.
Terraced house in UK
Row houses in
Toronto
7. It is a one-
storey house,
usually
surrounded by a
veranda.
A typical side-gabled bungalow in
Louisville’s Deer Park Neighborhood, US.
10. Is a very large and
stately dwelling
house for the
wealthy.
11. A large caravan, that
can be installed on a
permanent site and
that is used a
residence. Also called
manufactured
home.
A static caravan park on the cliffs above Beer,
Devon, England.
12. Consist of shops on the ground
floor w/c open up to a public in a
covered passage and
has residential accommodation
upstairs
The shop houses would adjoin
each other to form rows
with regular façade.
It is a vernacular
style building type
that is commonly seen in areas
such as urban Southeast Asia.
13. It is a boat that has
been designed to be
used primarily as a
human
dwelling.
14. Houses raised on
piles over the soil or a
body of water. It is still
commonly found in
South East Asia,
Papua New
Guinea and West
Africa.
16. Also called
snowhouse, a
shelter constructed from
blocks of snow, generally
in the form of a dome.
Predominantly
constructed by people of
Canada’s
Central Arctic
and Greenlands
Thule area.