Miscellaneous Topics discussion - 2

[Bharatvarsh]

Found some pics of traditional village house architecture in South:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/krsaurabh/350...57594467146991/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/krsaurabh/350...57594467146991/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/krsaurabh/350...57594467146991/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/krsaurabh/350...57594467146991/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/krsaurabh/350...57594467146991/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/krsaurabh/350...57594467146991/

You can find the rest here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/krsaurabh/set...57594467146991/

Unfortunately these are being replaced in villages nowadays with ugly concrete abominations with no greenery.

Indian cities are even worse, they are real concrete jungles and each house has 4 walls on 4 sides (as if the neighbor is a zombie out to get u), in Toronto many houses have a green frontyard, often a shared driveway, and a green backyard with only a small wooden wall between houses (sometimes even that is not there). You never have a front wall and gate (waste of space and concrete) like Indian houses and the roofs are tiled (so no terrace).

Also these traditional houses, many of them used to have a big gap in the middle where there was no tiled roof and rainwater fell, you can see an example of it in Thevar Magan:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=05FmZgnEQyI

These sort of houses are my favorite, my grandparents old house was like this.

Are these sort of houses present in rural areas of North India, I haven't noticed any, so was wondering if they are there.

Also I noticed that houses in Bali are similar:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/91393867@N00/2180531280/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tadzima/221140398/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/monkeybubs/145362584/