• What sort of houses do people live in, in Tibet?
1.-Houses constructed with earth, stone and wood, looking like a castle, are colloquially called “castle” by the local people. This kind of house is the most representative ones in Tibet. They are often made with stone-wood structure of primitive simplicity, looking dignified and stable
2.-Tent, rather different from castle-like house in agricultural area, is a special form of architecture, which is suitable for a life nomad and good for travelling for Tibetans. The common tents are usually small and elegant, being square or rectangle at the base.
3.- Cave dwelling, in Ali, houses are usually separate from their neighbours. The houses are built with earth and wood as high as two stories. In summer people live in the second floor, when winter sets in, they move down to live in the first floor for it is warmer than the above floor. Cave dwellings are frequently built by the side of hill or mountain
4.-The residential buildings in the eastern forest area have a distinctive style. The houses in Nyingzhi are mostly composed of living room (doubling as a kitchen), storage room, stables, outer corridor and lavatory, with an independent courtyard. The room is square or rectangle made of smaller square units on the base. And the furniture and bed are put around the fireplace.
5.- The Monastery is magnificent consisting of Buddha, rites, bonze etc. From then on, the foundation of the Tibetan housing style and construction more or less had been laid
• What are houses like in Jamaica?
Treehouse, a house built among the branches or around the trunk of one or more mature trees and does not rest on the ground
Villa, originally an upper-class country house, though since its origins in Roman times the idea and function of a villa has evolved considerably
Aireys house, a type of low-cost house developed in the UK in the 1940s by Sir Edwin Airey, recognizable by its precast concrete columns and walls of precast ship-lap concrete panels
Trullo, a traditional Apulian stone dwelling with conic roof
Wimpey house, a low-cost house built in the UK from the 1940s onwards. The walls are of no-fines concrete. About 300,000 were constructed.[1]
• Some people in Australia do build houses out of mud. Why? What do the houses look like?
Cob enjoyed much popularity in England. Cob was one of the primary methods used in building construction for all social classes, when industrialization allowed fired bricks to become readily available for the richer classes.
Cob was popular because of the local materials; wood is more scarce and the soil is a sandy clay, the perfect type to use in cob. Many cob houses built in Devon County in this era are still standing today.
The settlers of Australia favored rammed earth and mud brick building techniques because of the different soil type than in New Zealand, but some cob structures still exist in Western and South-Western Australia.
• The house at the start of this unit is in a place called Redcliffe. Where is Redcliffe? What is it like?
Redcliffe is a residential suburb of the Moreton Bay Regional Council in the north-east of the Redcliffe peninsula, approximately 28 kilometers (17 miles) north-northeast of Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia. Along with the surrounding suburbs, Redcliffe is a popular location for residents of Brisbane seeking a place to relax at its sandy beaches and café strip and hotels on Redcliffe Parade, through its central business district.
• Are there places in the world where people still live in caves?
In China's vast interior, an estimated 40 million people still live in caves (Mao himself lived in a cave). As the modernization of China continues, this way of life is slowly disappearing.
Maltese Troglodytes rather chose to bury themselves, as it were, alive, by inhabiting the dark and solitary Caverns of the Earth, than to live above ground in Houses … .’
And even today some people still choose to live in caves. In Malaysia people have chosen a nice small dry cave and converted it into a home.