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2. Traditional Chinese house architecture - Wikipedia

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   Traditional Chinese house architecture refers to a historical series of architecture styles and design elements that were commonly utilized in the building of civilian homes during the imperial era of ancient China. Throughout this two-thousand-year-long period, significant innovations and variations of homes existed, but house design generally ...

3. Chinese architecture - Wikipedia

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   The first design principle was that the Chinese house was the embodiment of Neo-Confucian values. These collaborative values were loyalty, respect, and service. They were depicted through representations of generations, gender, and age. Unlike western homes, the Chinese home was not a private space or a place separated from the state.

4. Japanese architecture - Wikipedia

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   Since the 19th century, however, Japan has incorporated much of Western, modern, and post-modern architecture into construction and design, and is today a leader in cutting-edge architectural design and technology. The earliest Japanese architecture was seen in prehistoric times in simple pit-houses and stores adapted to the needs of a hunter ...

5. Rumah Gadang - Wikipedia

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   Sumatra is home to one of the most diverse range of peoples in the Southeast Asian archipelago. [3] This diversity is reflected in a range variety of often dramatic traditional homes known as rumah adat. The most common housing forms have traditionally been wooden and raised on piles, built of locally gathered materials, with steeply pitched roofs.

6. Hanok - Wikipedia

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   The specific word "hanok" appeared in the Samsung Korean dictionary in 1975, where it was defined as an antonym of "western house" and as a term meaning Joseon house (Korean-style house). After the 1970s, with urban development, many apartments and terraced houses were built in South Korea, and many hanok were demolished everywhere.

7. Colonial architecture of Southeast Asia - Wikipedia

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   The Asian Civilisations Museum was formerly built as the Empress Place Building, which opened in 1867. It was initially named Government House. The original design was to be a courthouse however it soon became housing for colonial government offices (Government Secretariat as well as Treasury and Stamp Office). [17]

8. 3D-Printed Houses: What Do They Cost and Are They Actually ...

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   Depending on how complex the design is, the price can touch as much as $500,000.” ... “3D homes are durable enough to be lived in, especially as they are made from concrete,” Patel said ...

9. Minka - Wikipedia

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   Minka (Japanese: 民家, lit. "folk houses") are vernacular houses constructed in any one of several traditional Japanese building styles. In the context of the four divisions of society , Minka were the dwellings of farmers, artisans, and merchants (i.e., the three non- samurai castes ). [ 1 ]