Nurdachhaus

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A roof-only house is a multifaceted architectural form for houses in which the roof surfaces extend far down and the eaves are accordingly just above the ground. The roof usually rests on a short knee stick . However, especially from the outside, the impression arises that there are no vertical side walls next to the gable ends . The house type has been known since the Neolithic and has been modified again and again. As a result of advances in steel and timber construction (especially the use of glued laminated timber ), the architecture of the Nurdach houses has become significantly more diverse since the beginning of the new millennium.

Examples

There are also buildings that, strictly speaking, are only approximately a roof-top house, but follow the aesthetics of a roof-top house, examples:

Finnhütte

Finnhütte, a Nurdach holiday home ( Leinsweiler in the Palatinate )

A Finnhütte , Finnhaus or Nurdach holiday home is a wooden house with a pointed gable roof that extends to the floor and saves two walls.

Finnhütten are suitable for residential purposes (also two-story), but also as partially open functional buildings (hiking hut, bus stop , shed ). The name goes back to the fact that houses of this type were first widespread in Fennoscandinavia , but it is no longer very common in Scandinavia itself. The term Finland House was also used earlier.

In Germany, the type of construction with this designation is more common in the east (former GDR ), where this type of house became popular as a garden and holiday home . They can therefore be found on the Baltic coast and in the lake district of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , in the Harz Mountains , in the Thuringian Forest and in the Ore Mountains , but also in the east German lowlands and in east-central European mountains ( Czech Republic , Slovakia , Romania ).

This type of house is rarer in the old federal state. However, as early as the 1960s in the North Sea spa Friedrichskoog -Spitze, Dithmarschen, a holiday home area with Nurdach houses was built . They can also be found on the Swabian Alb (Bartholomä). The Finn huts, which were built by GDR craftsmen in the Baltic Sea resort of Damp in 1972, are called tent- roofed houses, but they also have a double-sided gable roof (a tented roof denotes a four-sided roof type in construction ).

Farmhouses in Madeira

Nurdachhaus in Santana on Madeira

Houses similar to Finn huts, but traditionally thatched with thatched roofs with gable roofs reaching to the ground, can be found in Madeira , especially in Santana in the north of the island.

Pyramid shapes

Pyramid shapes can also be classified as all-roof houses; This certainly applies to the entrance pyramid designed by Ieoh Ming Pei in the inner courtyard of the Louvre in Paris, where the glass pyramid has a roof function. It is even “just a roof” in several senses: from a structural point of view, it has no other function (apart from the art and marking of the starting point of the “Great Axis”), and it also has no gable.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rüdiger Kelm (ed.): From the post hole to the stone age house. Archaeological research and reconstruction of Neolithic house and settlement findings in north-western Central Europe . First Albersdorf Colloquium from January 13-15, 1999 and Second Albersdorf Colloquium from January 19-21, 2000 in the Albersdorf community center. Boyens, Heide 2000, ISBN 3-8042-1000-7 , ( Albersdorfer research on archeology and environmental history 1).
  2. ↑ The Hutchinson Auditorium in Florida designed by Garry Boyle in the 1930s.Retrieved October 7, 2019
  3. ↑ Housing estate in Sophiental