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  2. Kampong Ayer - Wikipedia

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    The rumah tungkup, which was frequently connected to the Pengirans or Pehins, was another noteworthy design. This kind of home had a tiny flat roof at the top and a roof that wrapped around the main house on all four sides. The rumah loteng was a type of home typically inhabited by upper-class families, distinguished by its two stories and attic.

  3. Rumah adat - Wikipedia

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    An example of a modern building constructed using Western techniques, based on a rumah gadang design Buildings are sometimes built with modern construction techniques that include stylistic elements from rumah adat , such as The House of the Five Senses in the Efteling , a building modeled on the Minangkabau rumah gadang.

  4. Bolon house - Wikipedia

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    Ruma Bolon, traditional house of the Batak people Ruma Bolon in Samosir island.. A bolon house (Batak Toba: Ruma Bolon) is a Northern Sumatra traditional house in Indonesia. [1]

  5. Prefabricated home - Wikipedia

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    Construction of a prefabricated modular home (see also time-lapse video)Prefabricated homes, often referred to as prefab homes or simply prefabs, are specialist dwelling types of prefabricated building, which are manufactured off-site in advance, usually in standard sections that can be easily shipped and assembled.

  6. Sunda Kelapa - Wikipedia

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    The people worked in agriculture and their houses were built on wooden poles (rumah panggung). However, robbers and thieves plagued the country. [ 1 ] However it was uncertain which port of Sunda was referred to by Chou Ju-kua, it probably referred to the port of Banten , and not Sunda Kalapa.

  7. Ellen DeGeneres Responds to Rumors New U.K. Farmhouse ... - AOL

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    Ellen DeGeneres is setting the record straight about the status of her new U.K. home amid severe storms that devastated parts of the U.K.. After reports circulated over the weekend that the former ...

  8. Passive house - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, passive house design was first implemented by Katrin Klingenberg in 2003 when she built a passive home prototype named "The Smith House" in Urbana, Illinois. [26] Later, she and builder Mike Kernagis co-founded the Ecological Construction Laboratory in 2004 to further explore the feasibility of the affordable passive ...

  9. Housing in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Danchi (団地, lit. "group land") is the Japanese word for a large cluster of apartment buildings of a particular style and design, typically built as public housing by a government authority. The Japan Housing Corporation (JHC), now known as the Urban Renaissance Agency (UR), was founded in 1955.