Chart 178 - Kinds of Shelters

Kinds of Shelters Chart

Spectrum Chart - 178 : Kinds of Shelters

1. Cave Dwelling - A cave was used as a dwelling by primitive, prehistoric and recent tribes as their shelter.
2. Stone Hut – A stone house is stronger than a regular wooden house. A stone house takes more skills and resources to build, but offers more protection from decay, theft and invaders.
3. Brick House – Brick houses are very common form of shelters. Bricks are widely used for the building houses as they are economical & readily available material. It is hard and durable. It makes a structure, which can withhold all climatic changes.
4. Tree Dwelling – A tree dwelling or tree house is a platform or building constructed around, next to or among the trunk or branches of one or more mature trees while above ground level. Tree houses can be used for recreation, work space, habitation, observation or as temporary retreats.
5. Tepee – A Tepee is a conical tent, traditionally made of animal skins upon wooden poles. A tipi is distinguished from other conical tents by the smoke flaps at the top of the structure.
6. Mud House – Due to its cheapness and widespread availability of materials, Mud house provide large population of homeless and ill-housed people the shelter. Mud houses can weather the best in extremely dry climates.
7. Grass House - The Grass house is a structure used as a shelter that is built by tribes, who made them their homes. They are usually dome-shaped built with a willow framework covered with woven mats made of tule, cattail or giant wild rye.
8. Tent – A tent is a shelter consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over, attached to a frame of poles or attached to a supporting rope. First used as portable homes by nomadic peoples, tents are now more often used for recreational camping and temporary shelters.
9. Bamboo House - Bamboo house is mainly seen in areas which experience hot climate during the year. A bamboo house is an eco-friendly & sustainable. It helps to keep closed dwelling cool during hot weather.
10. Log House – A Log house is a house typically made from logs that have not been milled into conventional lumber. Log construction was the most common building technique in regions of Sweden, Finland, Norway and Russia, where straight and tall coniferous trees, such as pine and spruce are readily available.
11. House on Stilts - Stilt houses 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 they also keep out vermin.
12. Castle – A castle is a fortified structure made in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages. It usually means a private structure of a lord or a noble.
13. Skin Tent – Skin tent are used by normadic people, they rarely stayed in one place for very long. Therefore, their houses had to be quick and easy to build. The tent is built out of driftwood or poles covered with animal skins.
14. Cliff Dwelling – Cliff dwelling were the house of the prehistoric Anasazi people of the southwestern United States, built along the sides or under the overhangs of cliffs. Cliff dwellings are the culmination of the architectural developments, the use of hand-hewn stone building blocks and adobe mortar.
15. House Boat – A houseboat is a boat that has been designed or modified to be used primarily as a home. Some houseboats are not motorised. In India houseboats can found in Kashmir & Kerala.
16. Wattle & Daub Hut –Wattle and daub is a composite building material used for making walls, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called wattle is daubed with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, straw etc. Wattle and daub has been used for at least 6000 years for house construction.
17. Sloping Roof House – Sloping roof house are designed mainly to keep out rain. This types of house are mainly found in the ares that experience heavy rainfall. Sloping roof helps the rain water to flow out & does not let it accumulate on the roof top.
18. Pueblos – Pueblos are towns constructed of adobe, stone and other local materials, their buildings are constructed as complex apartments with numerous rooms, often built in strategic defensive positions. They are mostly found in Mexico.
19. Igloo – An igloo, also known as a snow hut, is a type of shelter built of snow, typically built when the snow can be easily compacted. Igloo's are associated with people of Canada's Central Arctic and Greenland. Snow igloos are built in the shape of a catenoid.
20. Bungalow – A bungalow is a residential building, normally detached, which is either single-story or has a second story built into a sloping roof, usually with dormer windows. Common features of many bungalows include verandas and being low-rise.
21. Yurt - A yurt is a portable, round tent covered with skins or felt and used as a dwelling by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia. Modern yurts may be permanently built on a wooden platform, they may use modern materials such as steam-bent wooden framing or metal framing, canvas or tarpaulin, Plexiglas dome, wire rope or radiant insulation.
22. Palace – A palace is a grand residence, especially a royal residence or the home of a head of state or some other high-ranking dignitary. Many historic palaces are now put to other uses such as parliaments, museums, hotels or office buildings.
23. Building – A building is a structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house. Buildings are primarily used as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work.
24. Skyscraper – A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of over 40 floors, mostly designed for office, commercial and residential uses. Burj Khalifa, in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), is currently the tallest skyscraper in the world, with a height of 829.8m.

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