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    Types of Housing: A Cottage in Southern Finland

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    The document describes different types of housing: - Cottages are small, often old houses typically located in rural areas. - Apartments are suites of rooms within tall residential or office buildings. - Bungalows are low houses with dormers and broad front porches. - Detached and semi-detached houses are free-standing or paired residential buildings surrounded by gardens. - Mansions are large, imposing residences like historic villas.

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    Types of Housing: A Cottage in Southern Finland

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    The document describes different types of housing: - Cottages are small, often old houses typically located in rural areas. - Apartments are suites of rooms within tall residential or office buildings. - Bungalows are low houses with dormers and broad front porches. - Detached and semi-detached houses are free-standing or paired residential buildings surrounded by gardens. - Mansions are large, imposing residences like historic villas.

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    Types of Housing: A Cottage in Southern Finland

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    Types of Housing

     Cottage: A cottage is, typically, a small house. It may carry the connotation of
    being an old or old-fashioned building. In modern usage, a cottage is usually a
    modest, often cosy dwelling, typically in a rural or semi-rural location.

    A cottage in southern Finland

     Apartment: A suite of rooms forming one residence, typically in a building


    containing a number of dwellings. It is a tall building or structure used as a
    residential or office building. In some areas, they may be referred to as “MDU”
    standing for “multi dwelling unit”.

    An apartment complex in Gurgaon, Haryana, India

     Bungalow: A low house, with a broad front porch, having either no upper floor
    or upper rooms set in the roof, typically with dormer windows.

    A bungalow in Houston, Texas


     Detached house: It is a free standing residential building means that the
    building does not share an inside wall with any other house, a house that is
    not joined to any other house.
    - It is a free-standing residential building.
    - Generally found in less dense urban areas the suburbs of cities, and rural
    areas.
    - Surrounded by a garden.
    - Garages can also be found on most lots.

    A single-family home in Denmark

     Semi-detached houses: A semi-detached house is a single family dwelling


    house built as one of a pair that share one common wall. Often, each house’s
    layout is a mirror image of the other.
    -They consist of pairs of houses built side by side as units.
    -They share a party wall.
    -Usually each house's layout is a mirror image of its twin.
    -This type of housing is a half-way state between terraced and detached
    houses.

    A semi- detached house in Singapore

     Mansion: A mansion is a large dwelling house. manor comes from the same
    root. It is a separate dwelling in a large house or structure, a large imposing
    residence.
    Renaissance villas such as Villa Rotonda near Vicenza were an inspiration for many later mansions,
    especially during the industrialisation

     Mobile houses: A mobile home is a prefabricated structure, built in a factory


    on a permanently attached chassis before being transported to site (either by
    being towed or on a trailer). Used as permanent homes, or for holiday or
    temporary accommodation, they are left often permanently or semi-
    permanently in one place, but can be moved, and may be required to move
    from time to time for legal reasons.

    A static caravan park on the cliffs above Beer, Devon, England.

     Terraced houses: A house built as part of a continuous row in a uniform style;


    a row house.
    -A row of identical or mirror-image houses.
    -They share side walls.
    -The first and last of these houses is called an end terrace.
    Terraced houses in Macclesfield

     Penthouse: A very expensive apartment on the top floor of the building. It


    occupies the entire floor.

    A penthouse in Miami

     Shop House (Mixed use building typology): Consist of shops on the ground
    floor which can open up to a public in a covered passage and has residential
    accommodation upstairs.
    - The shop houses would adjoin each other to form rows with regular façade.
    - It is a vernacular style building type that is commonly seen in areas such as
    urban Southeast Asia.

    Shophouses in Taiping

     Stilt houses: Houses raised on piles over the soil or a body of water. It is still
    commonly found in South East Asia, Papua New Guinea and West Africa.

    City of Yawnghwe in the Inle Lake, Myanmar


     Castle: A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages
    predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars
    debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private
    fortified residence of a lord or noble.

    Dating back to the early 12th century, the Alcázar of Segovia is one of the most distinctive medieval castles
    in Europe. Disney was inspired by this site in building Cinderella's castle.

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