HE 507 Housing and Interior Decoration

TYPES OF HOUSES
by :

MARY RHEA R. ILETO

Maed Student

December 12,2015
HOUSE -
abuildingthat functions as ahome, ranging
from simple to complex, fixed structures of
wood, brick, or other materials containing
plumbing, ventilation and electrical systems. The
design and structure of the house is also
subject to change as a consequence of
globalization, urbanization and other social,
economic, demographic, and technological
reasons. Various other cultural factors also
influence the building style and patterns of
domestic space.
 Detached House
A single-family detached home, also called a single-
detached dwelling, single-family residence (SFR) or
separate house is a free-standing residential building. It
is defined in opposition to a multi-family residential dwelling.
1. A-frame house

An A-frame house is
an architectural house style
featuring steeply-angled sides
(roofline) that usually begin at
or near the foundation line,
and meet at the top in the
shape of the letter A.
 2. Airey House

An Airey house is a type

of prefabricated house built in Great
Britain following the Second World
War.
Designed by Sir Edwin Airey to
the Ministry of Works Emergency
Factory Made housing programme, it
features a frame of prefabricated
concrete columns reinforced with
tubing recycled from the frames of
military vehicles. A series
of shiplap style concrete panels, tied
back to the columns, form the
external envelope.
3. American Craftsman
The American
Craftsman style, or the
American Arts and Crafts
movement, is an American
domestic architectural, interi
or design, landscape
design, applied arts,
and decorative arts style and
lifestyle philosophy that
began in the last years of the
19th century. As a
comprehensive design and
art movement it remained
popular into the 1930s.
However, in decorative arts
and architectural design it
has continued with
numerous revivals and
restoration projects through
present times.
4. American Foursquare

The hallmarks of the style

include a basically square,
boxy design, two-and-one-
half stories high, usually with
four large, boxy rooms to a
floor, a center dormer, and a
large front porch with wide
stairs. The boxy shape
provides a maximum amount
of interior room space, to use
a small city lot to best
advantage. Other common
features included a hipped
roof, arched entries between
common rooms, built-in
cabinetry, and Craftsman-
style woodwork.
5. Barndominium

A non-traditional structure,
the barndominium is a steel frame
and sheet metal building,
originally designed as a storage
building or barn structure that
has been repurposed by the
addition of living areas to
previously open space. This type
of building is typically built on an
existing property or multi-acre
homesite and the structure often
acts as a dual purpose living and
shop or workspace areas.
These homes offer features not
usually found on typical homes
including oversized roll-up doors
and single enclosed areas large
enough to hold things like boats
and recreational vehicles.
6. Bungalow
A bungalow is a type of building,
originally from Bengal region in South
Asia, but now found throughout the
world. Across the world, the meaning of
the word bungalow varies. Common
features of many bungalows include
verandas and being low-rise.
In Australia the California bungalow
was popular after the First World War.
In North America and the United
Kingdom a bungalow today is a
residential building, normally detached,
which is either single-storey or has a
second storey built into a sloping roof,
usually with dormer windows (one-and-
a-half storeys). Full vertical walls are
therefore only seen on one storey, at
least on the front and rear elevations.
Usually the buildings are relatively
small, especially from recent decades;
yet early examples may be large, in
which case the term bungalow tends
not to be used today. People believe the
origin of the word is from the time
period when bundles of hungry people
would elope. The phrase bungled
hungry eloping people eventually
merged into the term 'bungalope' and
later the term bungalow evolved.
 7. Castle

A castle (from Latin: castellum

) is a type of fortified structure
built in Europe and the Middle
East during the Middle
Ages by nobility. Scholars
debate the scope of the
word castle, but usually
consider it to be the private
fortified residence of a lord or
noble. This is distinct from
a palace which is not fortified;
from a fortress, which was not
always a residence for nobility
and from a fortified settlement,
which was a public defence
though there are many
similarities among these types
of construction.
8. Log House

A log house (or log

home) is structurally
identical to a log cabin (a
house typically made
from logs that have not
been milled into
conventional lumber). The
term "log cabin" is not
preferred by most
contemporary builders, as
it generally refers to a
smaller, more rustic log
house such as a hunting
cabin in the woods, or
a summer cottage.
9. Mansion
A mansion is a large
dwelling house.
The word itself derives
(through Old French) from
the Latin word mansio "dwelling",
an abstract noun derived from the
verb manere to dwell".
The English word "manse"
originally defined a property large
enough for the parish priest to
maintain himself, but a mansion is
no longer self-sustaining in this
way (compare a Roman or
medieval villa). 'Manor' comes
from the same rootterritorial
holdings granted to a lord who
would remain therehence it is
easy to see how the word 'Mansion'
came to have its meaning.
10.Octagon House

Octagon houses were a unique

house style briefly popular in the
1850s in the United States and
Canada. They are characterised by
an octagonal (eight-sided) plan,
and often feature a flat roof and
a veranda all round. Their
unusual shape and appearance,
quite different from the ornate
pitched-roof houses typical of the
period, can generally be traced to
the influence of one man,
amateur architect and lifestyle
pundit Orson Squire Fowler.
Although there are other
octagonal houses worldwide, the
term octagon house usually refers
specifically to octagonal houses
built in North America during this
period, and up to the early 1900s.
11. Spanish Colonial Revival Style

The best example of

the Spanish Colonial
Revival architecture and
California mission style is
the famed Manila
Hotel designed by William
E. Parsons and built in
1909.
12. Stilt House

Stilt houses or pile

dwellings or
palafitte are houses
raised on piles over the
surface of the soil or a
body of water. Stilt houses
are built primarily as a
protection
against flooding but also
serve to keep
out vermin The shady
space under the house can
be used for work or
storage.
13. Villa
A villa was
originally an ancient
Roman upper-
class country house. Since
its origins in the Roman
villa, the idea and function
of a villa have evolved
considerably. After the fall
of the Roman Republic,
villas became small
farming compounds,
which were increasingly
fortified in Late Antiquity,
sometimes transferred to
the Church for reuse as a
monastery.
 Attached House
Structure which shares a common wall or walls with
another unit. Some examples of attached dwellings are;
townhomes, condominiums, row houses, apartment buildings
and high-rise residential towers. Many of this style of dwelling
features common grounds, either shared or jointly owned.
1. Duplex

Duplex house is
a dwelling having
apartments with
separate entrances for
two households.
2. Apartment
An apartment (in American
English) or a flat (in British
English) is a self-
contained housing unit (a type of
residential real estate) that
occupies only part of a building.
Such a building may be called
an apartment
building, apartment complex (in
American English),apartment
house (in American
English), block of flats, tower
block, high-rise or,
occasionally mansion block (in
British English), especially if it
consists of many apartments
for rent. In Scotland it is called a
block of flats or, if it's a traditional
sandstone building, a tenement,
which has a pejorative
connotation elsewhere.
Apartments may be owned by
an owner/occupier, by leasehold
tenure or rented by tenants (two
types of housing tenure).
Traditional House in
the Philippines
BAHAY KUBO

Type of House originated in the Philippines.

Characteristics of an Ideal House
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as
well as the body. Benjamin Franklin.

1.An idyllic house should meet the physical and social needs of the family.
2. Rooms in the house should neither be too small nor too big, but spacious enough.
3. There should be wide enough windows for proper ventilation and lighting will aid in
contributing to the familys good health.
4. It should have sufficient supply of water for mundane tasks such as laundering,
bathing and other personal needs of the family.
5. Work Areas should be planned to prevent crowded space and walking back and
forth from one place to another.
Thank you!