bungalow

A bungalow with a gable roof

A bungalow (English / Anglo-Indian bungalow from Gujarati : બંગલો , baṅglo or Hindi : बंगला baṅglā ; to baṅgālī = Bengali, [house] from Bengal ) is a mostly single-storey house that can have different roof shapes . The term is often used in connection with holiday homes and summer homes.

History of the bungalow

The word comes from the North Indian languages and literally means “Bengali”, ie a house in the Bengali style. The name comes from the fact that in the geographical region of Bengal in north-east South Asia in the 18th century, the British colonists used the construction of local huts as a model took to build houses in a similar way, for example for rural stays. The traditional Bengali village houses are single-story and have a wide veranda over the entire entrance front.

In Germany, bungalows experienced their greatest heyday as a form of living in the 1960s. Starting in the USA, where wooden frame bungalows have always been one of the most widespread house shapes, luxuriously furnished bungalows have often become a popular house shape, also as angled bungalow with flat or hipped roof . An example of this is the chancellor's bungalow in Bonn designed by the architect Sep Ruf in 1963 , which was available to the chancellors from 1964 to 1999 as an apartment and for state receptions in private surroundings and has been a listed building since 2001 .

The Chancellor's Bungalow in Bonn
The Buchtel Bungalow in Denver
Bungalow in the UK
Elevation and floor plan of an Australian bungalow house, 1939

Architectural details

Bungalows were very popular in America and Europe in the beginning and middle of the 20th century. They have certain advantages such as barrier-free living on one level. In addition, living rooms can easily be arranged next to each other. Furthermore, less consideration has to be given to the statics of load-bearing walls. An increase is possible.

literature

Martin Mittag: Small houses, holiday homes, bungalows . Bertelsmann, 1960
Klara Trost: country house and bungalow . Ullstein, 1961
Holger Pump-Uhlmann (ed.): The extended living space - bungalows by Walter Brune . JOVIS Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86859-009-8