Housing Typologies

Faculty incharge : Dr.A.Sofi / SCE

 Housing Typologies
• 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.
By layout
• Single pen, single cell, or Hall house: a one-room house
• Wealden hall house: a type of vernacular medieval timber-framed
yeoman's hall house traditional in the south east of England
Contd…
• Double pen or double cell: a two-room house
• Saddlebag: a two-room house with a central chimney and one or two
front doors
Contd…(similar to 2 room)
• Hall and parlor house: a two-room house, with one room (the hall)
larger than the other (the parlor)
Contd…
• Central-passage or central hallway\corridor: a three-room house,
with a central hallway or passage running front-to-back between the
two rooms on either side of the house
• Dogtrot house: divided house with an open, roofed breezeway
between the two sections
Contd…different types based on space/accommodating people

Double-pile house layouts are two rooms deep, and also may be more
than one room wide
Shotgun house: a house that is one room wide and two rooms deep,
without a corridor
Contd..
• Side-hall or side passage: a house with a hallway that runs from front
to back along one side[
Hut
• A hut is a dwelling of relatively simple construction, usually one room
and one story in height. The design and materials of huts vary widely
around the world.
•Bungalow is a common term applied to a low one-story house with a
shallow-pitched roof (in some locations, dormered varieties are
referred to as 1.5-story, such as the chalet bungalow in the United
Kingdom
• A cottage is a small house, usually one or two story in height,
although the term is sometimes applied to larger structures.
•A ranch-style house or rambler is one-story, low to the ground, with a low-
pitched roof, usually rectangular, L- or U-shaped with deep overhanging eaves.
Ranch styles include:
•California ranch: the "original" ranch style, developed in the United States in
the early 20th century, before World War II
•Tract ranch: a post-World War II style of ranch that was smaller and less
ornate than the original, mass-produced in housing developments, usually
without basements
•Suburban ranch: a modern style of ranch that retains many of the
characteristics of the original but is larger, with modern amenities
Brick ranch-style house
 Some other types

•An I-house is a two or three-story house that is one room deep

with a double-pen, hall-parlor, central-hall or saddlebag layout
•New England I-house: characterized by a central chimney
•Pennsylvania I-house: characterized by internal gable-end
chimneys at the interior of either side of the house
•Southern I-house: characterized by external gable-end chimneys
on the exterior of either side of the house
 Contd..Gablefront

• A gablefront house or gablefront cottage has a gable roof that faces

its street or avenue, as in the novel The House of Seven Gables.
• A-frame: so-called because the steep roofline, reaching to or near
the ground, makes the gable ends resemble a capital letter A.
• Chalet: a gablefront house built into a mountainside with a wide
sloping roof
• Charleston single house: originating in Charleston, South Carolina, a
narrow house with its shoulder to the street and front door on the
side.
Split-level

• Split-level is a design of house that was commonly built during the

1950s and 1960s. It has two nearly equal sections that are located on
two different levels, with a short stairway in the corridor connecting
them.
• Bi-level, split-entry, or raised ranch
• Tri-level, quad-level, quintlevel etc
By construction method or materials

• Airey house: a type of low-cost house that was developed in the

United Kingdom during the 1940s by Sir Edwin Airey, and then widely
constructed between 1945 and 1960 to provide housing for soldiers,
sailors, and airmen who had returned home from World War II. These
are recognizable by their precast concrete columns and by their walls
made of precast "ship-lap" concrete panels.
• Assam-type House:an earthquake-resistant house type commonly
found in the northeastern states of India
•Bastle house: a fortified farmhouse found in England and
Scotland
•Castle: primarily a defensive structure/dwelling built during
the Dark Ages and the Middle Ages, and also from the 18th
century to today.
•Earth sheltered: houses using dirt ("earth") piled against it
exterior walls for thermal mass, which reduces heat flow into
or out of the house, maintaining a more steady indoor
temperature
• Pit-house: a prehistoric house type used on many continents and of many styles,
partially sunken into the ground.
• Rammed earth
• Sod house
• Earthbag home
• Souterrain: an earthen dwelling typically deriving from Neolithic Age or Bronze
Age times.
• Underground home: a type of dwelling dug and constructed underground. Ex. A
Rammed-Earth Style House
• Yaodong: a dugout used as an abode or shelter in northern China, especially on
the Loess Plateau
• Wattle and daub
• Adobe: a type of mudbrick house made of dirt and straw with mud used as
mortar. Found throughout the world, in particular Spain, North Africa, the Middle
East and the Americas.
•Igloo: an Inuit, Yup'ik, and Aleut seasonal or emergency shelter that was made of
knife-sliced blocks of packed snow and/or ice in the Arctic regions of Alaska,
Canada, Greenland, and Siberian Russia.
•Kit house: a type of pre-fabricated house made of pre-cut, numbered pieces of
lumber.
•Sears Catalog Home: an owner-built "kit" houses that were sold by the Sears
Roebuck and Co. corporation via catalog orders from 1906 to 1940.
•Laneway house: a type of Canadian house that is constructed behind a normal
single-family home that opens onto a back lane
•Log home, Log cabin: a house built by American, Canadian, and Russian
frontiersmen and their families which was built of solid, unsquared wooden logs and
later as a well crafted style of dwelling
•Plank house: a general term for houses built using planks in a variety
of ways
•Pole house: a timber house in which a set of vertical poles carry the
load of all of its suspended floors and roof, allowing all of its walls to be
non-load-bearing.
•Prefabricated house: a house whose main structural sections were
manufactured in a factory, and then transported to their final building
site to be assembled upon a concrete foundation, which had to be
poured locally.
•Manufactured house: a prefabricated house that is assembled on the
permanent site on which it will sit.
•Modular home: a prefabricated house that consists of repeated sections
called modules.
•Lustron house: a type of prefabricated house
•Tree house: a house built among the branches or around the trunk of one
or more mature trees and does not rest on the ground.
•Upper Lusatian house or Umgebinde: combined log and timber-frame
construction in Germany-Czech Republic-Poland region
•Wimpey no-fines house: a low-cost semi-attached or terraced houses built
in the United Kingdom from the 1940s onwards using concrete without fine
aggregates ("no-fine")