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  2. Architecture of Indonesia - Wikipedia

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    Natural materials – timber, bamboo, thatch, and fibre – make up rumah adat. [5] The traditional house of Nias has post, beam, and lintel construction with flexible nail-less joints, and non-load bearing walls are typical of rumah adat. Traditional dwellings have developed to respond to Indonesia's hot and wet monsoon climate.

  3. Thatching - Wikipedia

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    Thatching materials range from plains grasses to waterproof leaves found in equatorial regions. It is the most common roofing material in the world, because the materials are readily available. Farm-house in the Netherlands near Alkmaar. The combination of thatch and roof tiles is quite common in that area.

  4. Chickee - Wikipedia

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    Chickees are also known as chickee huts, stilt houses, or platform dwellings. The chickee style of architecture—palmetto thatch over a bald cypress log frame—was adopted by Seminoles during the Second (1835–42) and Third (1855-58) Seminole Wars as U.S. troops pushed them deeper into the Everglades and surrounding territory

  5. Attap dwelling - Wikipedia

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    Detail of attap roof thatching An attap dwelling is traditional housing found in the kampongs of Brunei , Indonesia , Malaysia and Singapore . Named after the attap palm , which provides the wattle for the walls, and the leaves with which their roofs are thatched , [ 1 ] these dwellings can range from huts to substantial houses.

  6. National Register of Historic Places listings in Columbus, Ohio

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    Columbus Near East Side District. May 19, 1978 , #83004287 increase: Roughly bounded by Parsons Ave., Broad and Main Sts., and the railroad tracks; also 43-125 ...

  7. Bahay kubo - Wikipedia

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    A large bahay kubo with walls made of thatch, c. 1900. The Filipino term báhay kúbo roughly means "country house", from Tagalog.The term báhay ("house") is derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay referring to "public building" or "community house"; [4] while the term kúbo ("hut" or "[one-room] country hut") is from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu, "field hut [in rice fields]".

  8. World War II Quonset hut for sale for $1.7 million in SLO ...

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    There’s also a 20- by 30-foot storage structure behind the Quonset hut. This Quonset located on a half acre of land in Morro Bay is for sale for $1.7 million.

  9. Colonial architecture of Indonesia - Wikipedia

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    The hill town of Munduk, a town amongst plantations established by the Dutch, is Bali's only other significant group of colonial architecture; a number of mini mansions in the Balinese-Dutch style still survive. [18]