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The nipa hut also known as bahay kubo, is an indigenous house used in the Philippines.

The
native house is constructed out of bamboo tied together, with a thatched roof using nipa/anahaw
leaves.Nipa huts were the native houses of the indigenous people of the Philippines before the
Spaniards arrived. They are still used today, especially in rural areas. A nipa hut is an icon of
Philippine culture as it represents the Filipino value of bayanihan, which refers to a spirit of
communal unity or effort to achieve a particular objective.

Bungalows are very convenient for the homeowner in that all living areas are on a single story
and there are no stairs between living areas. A bungalow is well suited to persons with impaired
mobility, such as the elderly or those in wheelchairs.

Apartments may be owned by an owner/occupier or rented by tenants (two types of housing


tenure).

mansion is a very large dwelling house. The "country house," as it is known in English-speaking
places, is a distinct variety of mansion.

An igloo (Inuit language: iglu, Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᒡᓗ, "house", plural: iglooit or igluit) or
snowhouse is a type of shelter built out of snow, originally built by the Inuit. Iglu is the Inuit
word for a house or home built out of any material,[1] and is not restricted exclusively to
snowhouses, but includes traditional tents, sod houses, homes constructed of driftwood and
modern buildings.[2][3] Outside of Inuit society, however, "igloo" refers exclusively to shelters
constructed out of blocks of compacted snow, generally in the form of a dome.

The word castle is derived from the Latin word castellum which is a diminutive of the word
castrum, meaning "fortified place". The Old English castel, French château, Spanish castillo,
Italian castello, and a number of other words in other languages also derive from castellum.

A condominium, or condo, is the form of housing tenure and other real property where a
specified part of a piece of real estate (usually of an apartment house) is individually owned
while use of and access to common facilities in the piece such as hallways, heating system,
elevators, exterior areas is executed under legal rights associated with the individual ownership
and controlled by the association of owners that jointly represent ownership of the whole
piece. Colloquially, the term is often used to refer to the unit itself in place of the word
"apartment". A condominium may be simply defined as an "apartment" that the resident
"owns" as opposed to rents.

Ifugao House have three functional levels: the ground floor, the second level for the living
quarters and the third level which was used .

A boat is a watercraft of modest size designed to float or plane, to provide passage across water.

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