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The chained row in Søholm I is staggered and each of the five houses is separated from its neighbour by an intermediate building and a noticeable chimney. Their roofs are divided into two sections sloping in opposite directions by a vertical window in the middle, an innovative design that contributed to Jacobsen's international recognition.
They are similar in concept to row houses or terraced houses, but share a common design and construction. The first and last of the houses is called an end terrace and is often a different layout from the houses in the middle, sometimes called mid-terrace.
A camelback house, also called humpback, is a variation of the shotgun that has a partial second floor over the rear of the house. Camelback houses were built in the later period of shotgun houses. The floor plan and construction is very similar to the traditional shotgun house, except there are stairs in the back room leading up to the second ...
Plan of an Edo nagaya neighbourhood; houses range from 4.5 to 16 tatami in area (visible in full-scale view) Old depiction of a nagaya. Nagaya (長屋, lit. ' longhouse ') is a type of Japanese rowhouse that was typical during the Edo period (1603–1868). [1]
It can be seen in the rationalizing, urbanistic layout of L'Enfant Plan of Washington and in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 in New York. [3] The historic eastern part of Bleecker Street in New York, between Broadway and the Bowery, is home to Federal-style row houses at 7 to 13 and 21 to 25 Bleecker Street.
A wooden house in Tartu, Estonia. This is a list of house types. Houses can be built in a large variety of configurations. A basic division is between free-standing or single-family detached homes and various types of attached or multi-family residential dwellings. Both may vary greatly in scale and the amount of accommodation provided.
The layout of a typical two-up two-down terraced house, including a yard and outside toilet. Terraced houses, as defined by various bylaws established in the 19th century, particularly the Public Health Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55), are distinguished by properties connecting directly to each other in a row, sharing a party wall.
It was a prototype as the physical platform for the mass production of housing. The name is a pun that combines an allusion to domus (Latin for house) [3] and the pieces of the game of dominoes, because the floor plan resembled the game and because the units could be aligned in a series like dominoes, to make row houses of different patterns.