The document describes traditional housing styles from several cultures around the world. It discusses Korean houses featuring ondol underfloor heating, igloos built by Inuit people as temporary shelters, Thai houses on stilts with prefabricated walls, Torajan homes with buffalo horn-shaped roofs representing the universe, and Chinese courtyard houses with inward-facing structures surrounding a central yard. The concluding paragraph notes igloos and Korean houses are most interesting for their distinctiveness from other housing styles.

1. Homes Around the World
By: Billy, Alisha, Nanda and Stephany

2. Korean Traditional House
• Made by putting mud over under-floor
heating stones, "ondol" is a main feature of
traditional Korean houses. If lighted on the
morning and evening, it with held a pleasant
l5 degree Celsius.

3. Igloo
• The term “igloo” comes from the Inuit word “iglu”
which means “house”.
• Igloos were usually temporary winter shelters built
by Inuit hunters for their families while on a hunting
trip.
• Some igloos would even have windows built from a
block of ice or seal gut
• An igloo could be any size, but normally, they built
them just big enough for the family

5. Thailand Traditional House
• The basic form of houses throughout the South-East
Asia is a gable structure - built on poles covered. The
Thai version of the house is built of bamboo or wood
unpainted, often near water. It uses prefabricated
walls which are mounted on stilts, with a versatile
space under the platform.

6. Toraja
• The distinctive features of the traditional
houses (tongkonan) of the Toraja are the "buffalo
horns", the roof design and the rich decoration
on the walls. The buffalo is a symbol of
status, courage, strength and fighting spirit.
Designed as a representation of the
universe, the tongkonan is constructed in three
parts: the upper world (the roof), the world of
humans (the middle of the building), and the
underworld (the space under the floor).

8. Chinese Traditional House
• Courtyard houses, also known as Beijing
siheyuan buildings, are enclosed and inward-
facing structures with a courtyard in the center
surrounded by four, one-story housing structures.
This design helps maximize sunlight, but minimize
contact with the busy outside world.

9. • We think that the most interesting homes are
igloo and Korean, because they are really
different from other houses.