Native nest: 9 most unusual traditional dwellings (9 photos)

Modern people tend to improve their living conditions. However, many nations are happy in their national huts. "Around world" shows how the most amazing dwellings look like in different countries.

Houses with sod roofs. Denmark, Iceland, Norway





Roofs overgrown with green grass are a picturesque feature Scandinavian villages. However, picturesqueness is not the main thing here: turf, sealing wooden frame (usually birch bark) - excellent cold protection. In Iceland, until the middle of the 20th century, no houses were built from turf. only the roofs, but also the walls of houses with stone foundations.

Trulli. Italy



Unique houses with domes-cones made of limestone in Apulian town of Alberobello, skillfully built using dry masonry, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Historically they were built peasants or shepherds from stones found in the field. Such a dwelling could be quickly dismantled before the visit of the royal inspectors, so that avoid paying taxes. Today, similar houses are being built from using a solution.

Lepa. Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia





Bajao "sea gypsies" spend almost their entire lives in ocean, in houseboats. In one part of the house-boat, food is prepared and stored tackle, and in the other part they sleep. On land, nomads are selected only for in order to sell fish, buy rice, water and fishing tackle, and bury the dead.

Fale. Samoa



The population of Samoan villages is not familiar with the concept of "private life". Houses without walls guarantee complete mutual understanding. Roofs from palm leaves rest on pillars arranged in a circle and connected by ropes of coconut husks. There are family fales for life, large for meetings and small for relaxation.

Karaans. Iran



Bizarre streamlined forms of rock houses in the village Kandovan in northwestern Iran might be the envy of Gaudí, but they created by ordinary people, simply carved into volcanic rock. Every the house is in a separate cone-shaped rock. The cones themselves formed due to the frequent eruptions of the Sehend volcano in antiquity.

Dogon huts. Mali



The ideal Dogon village is built on the principle of human body. Clay houses differ in purpose and location. The head is a toguna, a house for men's gatherings. In the chest and abdomen - familial houses with gabled roofs. In place of the genitals - sacrificial altars. The hands are the homes where women go during their periods.

Santana houses. Portugal



It is assumed that bright triangular houses with a sloping roof to the ground once stood all over the island of Madeira, but now, to admire them, you need to go to the village of Santana, and tourists do it is with great pleasure. Now traditional Santana houses are used for the most part not for housing, but as auxiliary buildings that house livestock or agricultural implements.

Yarangi



The portable dwelling of the Chukchi is more complicated than the usual plague: a frame made of long poles, tripods and poles fastened with straps, covered deer and walrus skins. The space inside is divided into two parts: household (chottagin), where a fire is lit, the smoke from which exits through a hole in the dome, and the sleeping (canopy) - a warm tent.

Tongkonans. Indonesia



According to the myth of the Toraja people, the first tongkonan was built god in heaven. According to an alternative legend, the first Toraja who sailed to Sulawesi from the north, suffered a storm, and damaged boats used as roofs for their houses. Allegedly from here and such an amazing form of dwellings. Tongkonans are traditionally folded without a single nail.