[Ardariel]

"Vernacular architecture is a category of architecture based on local needs, construction materials and reflecting local traditions.

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It tends to evolve over time to reflect the environmental, cultural, technological, economic, and historical context in which it exists. While often difficult to reconcile with regulatory and popular demands of the five factors mentioned, this kind of architecture still plays a role in architecture and design, especially in local branches.

Vernacular architecture can be contrasted against polite architecture which is characterised by stylistic elements of design intentionally incorporated for aesthetic purposes which go beyond a building's functional requirements."

"Vernacular architecture is influenced by a great range of different aspects of human behaviour and environment, leading to differing building forms for almost every different context; even neighbouring villages may have subtly different approaches to the construction and use of their dwellings, even if they at first appear the same. Despite these variations, every building is subject to the same laws of physics, and hence will demonstrate significant similarities in structural forms."

Influences:
Climate - One of the most significant influences on vernacular architecture is the macro climate of the area in which the building is constructed. Buildings in cold climates invariably have high thermal mass or significant amounts of insulation. They are usually sealed in order to prevent heat loss, and openings such as windows tend to be small or non-existent. Buildings in warm climates, by contrast, tend to be constructed of lighter materials and to allow significant cross-ventilation through openings in the fabric of the building.

Buildings for a continental climate must be able to cope with significant variations in temperature, and may even be altered by their occupants according to the seasons.

Mediterranean vernacular, and that of much of the Middle East, often includes a courtyard with a fountain or pond; air cooled by water mist and evaporation is drawn through the building by the natural ventilation set up by the building form.

Culture - The way of life of building occupants, and the way they use their shelters, is of great influence on building forms. The size of family units, who shares which spaces, how food is prepared and eaten, how people interact and many other cultural considerations will affect the layout and size of dwellings.

Nomadic dwellings
include appropriate responses to climate and customs of their inhabitants, including practicalities of simple construction such as huts, and if necessary, transport such as tents.

The Inuit people have a number of different forms of shelter appropriate to different seasons and geographical locations, including the igloo (for winter) and the tupiq (for summer).

Many nomadic people use materials common in the local environment to construct temporary dwellings, other cultures reuse materials, transporting them with them as they move.

Permanent dwellings

The type of structure and materials used for a dwelling vary depending on how permanent it is. Frequently moved nomadic structures will be lightweight and simple, more permanent ones will be less so. When people settle somewhere permanently, the architecture of their dwellings will change to reflect that.

Materials used will become heavier, more solid and more durable. They may also become more complicated and more expensive, as the capital and labour required to construct them is a one-time cost.

Permanent dwellings often offer a greater degree of protection and shelter from the elements. In some cases however, where dwellings are subjected to severe weather conditions such as frequent flooding or high winds, buildings may be deliberately "designed" to fail and be replaced, rather than requiring the uneconomical or even impossible structures needed to withstand them.

Environment and materials

The local environment and the construction materials it can provide, govern many aspects of vernacular architecture. Areas rich in trees will develop a wooden vernacular, while areas without much wood may use mud or stone.

Comments

[HeathWind]

Единственная архитектура, которая должна существовать по-моему.

[Ardariel]

HeathWind, а я бы еще оставила симпатичные викторианские домики. )

[HeathWind]

Ardariel, тогда это было идеологически оправдано, так же как скажем оправдана готическая архитектура. Но когда люди сейчас с пеной у рта доказывают, что "универсальная" архитектура ("универсальная" легко заменяется на "типовая") - это то, что нужно людям, мои глаза неприлично закатываются сами собой.
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[Ardariel]

HeathWind, нене, я согласна. Так, непрофессионально чисто по-человечески согласна. Ну просто смотришь вот на такое что-то (не vernacular, конечно, но и на типовую не похоже) - и можешь себя с этим ассоциировать, представить себе это как жизненное пространство, что оно для тебя и ты в нем, ну, не знаю, чувствуешь себя собой. Это твое место. Может быть им. А типовая архитектура, ну... человек ко всему, конечно, привыкает, и почти любое место может освоить. Но безликость и одинаковость, унифицированность очень давят. На мозг, прежде всего.

С другой стороны, вот англовики и не противопоставляет вернакулярную и типовую архитектуры, у них там противопоставление the vernacular и the polite. Второе, судя по определению, это вообще все, что задизайнено профессиональными архитекторами и содержит элементы, несущие только эстетическую функцию.

[HeathWind]

Ardariel, если еще всякие чуваки типа Мис ван дер Роэ. Которые в свое время здорово отравили мозги своими "принципами архитектуры" архитекторам во всем мире, что в любом месте на земле можно поставить стильненький стеклянный кубик и он везде будет одинаково хорош. Это все упрощение с той или иной стороны, одни хотят только красоту, другие только универсальноcть, третьим только конструктивность. Когда появляется это "только" вся личность испаряется. Вот у того домика, что ты прислала есть личность, он явно не делался кому-то воображаемому. Несет ли он архитектурную ценность? Вряд ли. Но личность в нем есть, а это уже то, чего нет в 75 процентах строящегося сегодня.