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•Sometimes wood beams and rafters are used with slate tiles for
roofing if available.
•These houses usually have two stories, with the livestock living on the
ground.
•The roof is pitched to deal with the monsoon season and the house
may sit on raised plinths or bamboo poles to cope with floors.
(Intermediate stage)
(Final product)
•Built on a gentle hill slope which is sparsely populated, it has a small water
channel running besides it.
•The dwelling was built in 1923 and occupied by an agrarian family whose
main preoccupation was to stores grains efficiently.
•Situated along a gentle slope, the density of houses is less and lot of greenery.
•The house has been built taking into account the furious winters when it snows
and the summers, which make the house really warm
•The house has been built such that the cow-shed and kitchen
form a separate unit, away from the living quarters.
•The two windows on the sides ventilate and dry the corn at the same
time protecting from the rain.