Barrack
A barrack (from French baraque (' field hut ', light, mostly one-storey makeshift house) and Italian baracca , both from Spanish barraca ) is a makeshift accommodation, as a one-story, light construction with no basement, especially made of wood. The word originally referred to a barracks ( English barracks ). It can also be a temporary building for the temporary mass accommodation of people such as the sick, soldiers , workers , displaced persons , refugees , bombed out , prisoners of war , internees or forced laborers . The inmates of the concentration camp in the Nazi era were in the concentration camp barracks housed. In the post-war period, many bombed-out people, refugees and displaced persons lived in Nissen huts , which were prefabricated corrugated iron barracks .
Barracks are built from simple materials such as wood , corrugated iron or cardboard , with partially brick walls. They are mostly single-storey and often poorly insulated , and there are often no sanitary facilities .
Colloquially , barracks are also the makeshift shelters made from any available materials, which serve as permanent accommodation in slums , the so-called slums or favelas , or after natural disasters are created by the population as primitive protection against the weather.
literature
- Ernst Seidl (ed.): Lexicon of building types. Functions and forms of architecture . Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-15-010572-2 .
- Axel Dossmann, Jan Wenzel, Kai Wenzel: Temporary architecture. Barracks, pavilions, containers. b_books, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-933557-66-6 .
