enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Yurt - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurt

   A traditional Kyrgyz yurt. A Karakalpak bentwood type "yourte" in Khwarezm (or Karakalpakstan), Uzbekistan. Turkmen woman at the entrance to a yurt in Turkestan; 1913 picture by Prokudin-Gorsky. A yurt (from the Turkic languages) or ger (Mongolian) is a portable, round tent covered and insulated with skins or felt and traditionally used as a ...

3. Yaranga - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaranga

   A Yaranga is a cone-shaped or rounded reindeer-hide tent. [ 1 ] It is built of a light wooden frame covered with reindeer skins or canvas sewn together. The word yaranga comes from the Chukchi word for house: jaraŋə (Cyrillic: яраӈы). [ 2 ] In Russian use, the terms chum, yurt and yaranga may be used interchangeably.

4. Qarmaq - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qarmaq

   Qarmaq (plural: "qarmat") [1] is an Inuktitut term for a type of inter-seasonal, [2] single-room family dwelling used by Inuit. To the Central Inuit of Northern Canada, it refers to a hybrid of a tent and igloo, or tent and sod house. Depending on the season, the lower portion was constructed of snow blocks or stone, while the upper portion ...

5. Architecture of Mongolia - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Mongolia

   Architecture of Mongolia. Early-20th-century yurt-shaped temple. Architectural generations: yurt, temple and skyscraper. Model of the Maitreya Temple. The architecture of Mongolia is largely based on traditional dwellings, such as the yurt (Mongolian: гэр, ger) and the tent. During the 16th and 17th centuries, lamaseries were built ...

6. Refugee shelter - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee_shelter

   Refugee shelter. Refugee shelters are structures ranging from the most temporary tent accommodation through transitional shelter to building temporary pics and settlements and include the most basic kind of ad hoc structure. They are created in the aftermath of a conflict or natural disaster as a temporary residence for victims who have lost or ...

7. ShelterBox - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShelterBox

   ShelterBox is an international disaster relief charity established in 2000 in Helston, Cornwall, UK, that provides emergency shelter and other aid items to families around the world who have lost their homes to disaster or conflict. ShelterBox responds to natural disasters such as earthquakes, [1] tropical cyclones, [2] tsunamis, [3] floods [4 ...