bungalow is a type of building, originally developed in Bengal region of South Asia. The meaning of the word bungalow varies internationally. Common features of many bungalows include the verandah and being low. In Australia, California bungalows linked to the United States were very popular after the First World War. In North America and the UK, today's bungalow is a house, usually separate, which may contain a small attic. This is a single story or has a second story built on a sloping roof, usually with a roof window (one-and-a-half stories).
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Etymology
The term is derived from India, derived from the Hindi word "?????" ( ba? gala ), meaning "Bengali" and used ellipse for "house in Bengali style". The shape and design of this Asian architecture comes from the rural areas of Bengal in South Asia. Such houses are traditionally small, consisting of one floor and separated, and have wide verandas. The term was first discovered in English from 1696, where it was used to describe "bungalows or hovells" in India to English sailors from the East India Company. Later it was used for large houses or official inns of British Raj officials, and so famous in Britain and then America, where at first had high status and exotic connotations. This style began to be used in the late 19th century for large residential buildings or suburbs built in Arts and Crafts or other Western-style languages ââ- basically as large cottages, a term also sometimes used. Then the developers started using the term for smaller buildings.
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Design considerations
The bungalows are very comfortable for the owners of the house where all living spaces are on one floor and there are no stairs among the residential areas. A bungalow is perfect for people with impaired mobility, such as parents or those who use a wheelchair.
The only bungalow environment offers more privacy than similar environments with a two-story house. Since bungalows are one or one and a half stories, strategically planted trees and shrubs are usually enough to block out the neighbors' views. With a two-storey house, extra heights require a much taller tree to accomplish the same thing, and it may not be practical to place tall trees close to the building to obscure the views of the second floor next door neighbors. Bungalows provide cost-effective residences. On the other hand, even bungalows that are very close together make the environment quite low, contributing to urban sprawl. In Australia, bungalows have spacious verandas to shade the interior from intense sunlight. But as a result they are often too dark inside, requiring artificial light even during the day.
Cost and space considerations
Based on per unit area (eg per square meter or per square foot), bungalows are more expensive to build than a two-story house, since larger foundations and roof areas are required for the same living room. Larger foundations will often translate into larger lot size requirements, as well. Because of this, bungalows are usually completely separate from other buildings and do not share common foundations or party walls: if homeowners can pay the relative bungalow surcharge to a two-story house, they can usually be completely disengaged as well.
Although the 'footprint' of a bungalow is often a simple rectangle, any foundation is theoretically possible. For bungalows with brick walls, windows are often positioned high, and close to the roof. This architectural technique avoids the need for special curves or thresholds to support the brick wall above the window. However, in a two-story house, there is no choice but to continue the brick wall above the window (the second floor window may be positioned high and close to the roof.)
Terminology
Australia
From 1891 the Federation Bungalow style swept across Australia, first in Camberwell, Victoria, and through Sydney's northern suburbs after 1895. Developer Richard Stanton was built in the first Federation Bungalow style in Haberfield, New South Wales, the first Garden Suburb (1901), and later in Rosebery, New South Wales (1912). Beecroft, Hornsby and Lindfield contain many examples of Federation Bungalows built between 1895 and 1920.
From about 1910 to 1930, the style of California Bungalow is very popular in Australia and New Zealand. This style appears to be first imported in Sydney and then spread throughout the states of Australia and New Zealand.
In South Australia, the suburb of Colonel Cahaya Gardens contains many well-groomed bungalow developments.
Bangladesh
In rural Bangladesh (the region called Bungalows), this is often called "Bangla Ghor" (Bengali Style House). Bungalow houses are still very popular in rural Bengal. The main construction material used in modern time is corrugated steel sheets. Previously they had been built of wood, bamboo and a kind of straw called "Khar". Khar is used in the bungalows roof and keeps the house cooler during the hot summer days. Another roofing material for a Bungalow house is a red clay tile.
Canada
Canada uses the definition of bungalow to define a family living on a high level.
United Kingdom
The first two bungalows in England were built in Westgate-on-Sea in 1869 or 1870. A bungalow is a prefabricated one-story building used as a seaside holiday home. Manufacturers including Boulton & amp; Paul Ltd., which made bumpy corrugated iron bungalows as advertised in their 1889 catalog, set up by their people on the buyer's light brick foundation. An example is Castle Bungalow in Peppercombe, North Devon owned by Landmark Trust; built by Boulton and Paul in the 1920s. The construction of this type of bungalow peaked towards the end of the decade, to be replaced by brick construction.
Bungalows became popular in Britain between two World Wars and a very large number were built, especially in coastal resorts, resulting in a condescending adjective, "bungaloid", first discovered in the Daily Express from 1927: " Dangerous allocation and bungalow growth make approach to every city disgusting ". Many coastal villages and resorts have large botanical estates of the 1960s, usually occupied by retired people. The typical 1930's bungalow is a square in the plan, with the 1960's more likely to be oblong. It is rare for the term "bungalow" to be used in English English to denote a occupancy having apart from one floor, in terms of "chalet bungalow", (see below) is used.
India
In India, the term bungalow or villa refers to a single family unit, as opposed to an apartment building, which is the norm for middle-class Indian city life. Normal customs for Indian bungalows are one floor, but over time many families build larger two-story houses to accommodate members and pets. The area with bungalows built in the 1920s and 1930s in New Delhi is now known as Lutyens' Bungalow Zone and is an architectural heritage area. In Bandra, a suburb of India's commercial capital, Mumbai, many colonial-era bungalows exist; they are threatened with the displacement and replacement of the ongoing development.
In separate use, bungalows not previously used by UK mail services have been adapted for use as local government centers or as rural hostels.
ireland
The bungalow is the most common type of house built in rural Ireland. During the Celtic Tiger years of the late 20th century, single-storey bungalows declined as new types of construction, and residents built more bungalows on either two floors or dormer. There is a tendency in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland that people move to rural areas and buy their own land. Often these plots are large; so, one floor bungalow is quite practical, especially for people who have retired.
Singapore and Malaysia
In Singapore and Malaysia, the term bungalow is sometimes used to refer to a house built during the colonial era. The structure was built "from the early 19th century until the end of World War II." They were built by the British to accommodate "high-ranking military officers, judges of the Court, and other members of colonial society".
Currently, there is still a high demand for colonial era bungalows in Singapore and Malaysia. Most units are used as a residence. Over the years, some have been transformed into offices, hotels, galleries, spas, and restaurants.
In the post-colonial period, the term bungalow has been adapted and used to refer to a stand-alone residence, regardless of size, architectural style, or the era in which it was built. Calling a house a bungalow often carries the connotation of price and residence status, and thus the wealth of the owner. Local real estate lingo usually incorporates the word "bungalow" when referring to a residence typically described as a "separate", "single family home", or even a "luxury house" in another country. Ease of word in local jargon has produced bungalow imported into Malay as word banglo with the same meaning.
South Africa
In South Africa, the term bungalow never refers to permanent residential buildings but means small vacation homes, small log buildings, or wooden beach huts.
Type
American Craftsman Bungalows
The American Craftsman bungalow symbolizes the style of the American Art and Craft movement, with common features usually including a low roofline on the roof of the veranda or waisted, inward-looking roof, open frame or decorative bracket under the roof, and a front porch or porch under a roof extension main.
Sears Company and The Aladdin Company are two manufacturing companies that produce pre-fab kits and sell them from catalogs for construction on site during the turn of the 20th century.
Colony bungalow
The special use of the term bungalow developed in the greater New York City area, between the 1930s and 1970s, to denote a group of small rented summer homes, usually in the Catskill Mountains in a known area as Borscht Belt. First-generation and second-generation Jewish Americans will most likely rent such a house. Old bungalow colonies continue to exist in the Catskills, and are occupied today mainly by Hasid Jews.
California bungalow
The California bungalow is a popular variation of 1 / 2 -storey in bungalows in the United States 1910-1925. It was also very popular in Australia in the period 1910-1940.
Bungalow Chalet
A bungalow with a loft has a second floor attic. The attic can be an extra space above the garage. This is often a room to the side of a large room with a domed ceiling area. The building is still classified and marketed as a bungalow with an attic because the main living room of the house is on one floor. All single floor living comforts are still valid and the attic is not expected to be accessed daily.
Some rooms have an additional bedroom in the attic or loft area. Such buildings are really one and a half floors and not bungalows, and are referred to in English English as "chalet bungalows" or as "dormer bungalows". "Chalet bungalow" is also used in English English where the enclosed area inside the pitched roof contains rooms, even if it consists of most of the living room and is fully integrated into the fabric of the property.
True bungalows do not use attics. Since the attic is not used, the roof pitch can be very shallow, limited only by snow load considerations.
Chicago Bungalow
The majority of Chicago bungalows were built between 1910 and 1940. They are usually constructed of bricks (some include decorative accents), with one half story and a full cellar. With over 80,000 bungalows, this style represents nearly a third of Chicago's single-family housing stock. One major difference between the Chicago bungalow and the other type is that the gable is parallel to the street, not perpendicular. Like many other local homes, Chicago bungalows are relatively narrow, being an average of 20 feet (6.1 m) wide by standard 24-foot (7.3 m) or 25-foot (7.6 m) many cities. Their verandas (porches) can be open or partially closed (if closed, perhaps further used to expand interior spaces).
Michigan Bungalow
There are many examples of Art and Craft bungalows built from 1910 to 1925 in the metro-Detroit area, including Royal Oak, Pleasant Ridge, Hazel Park, Highland Park and Ferndale. In line with the principle of Art and Craft movement, bungalows are built using local building materials.
Milwaukee bungalow
Most older residential buildings in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, are bungalows with Art and Craft styles similar to Chicago, but usually with a saddle roof that is perpendicular to the street. Also, many Milwaukee bungalows have white stucco at the bottom of the exterior.
Overwater Bungalow
A bungalow built on stilts in a tropical lagoon was first built in 1967 by a resort operator that has no beachfront property and has since become a symbol of tropical holiday icons.
Enhanced Bungalow
An elevated bungalow is one where the basement is partially above the ground. The benefit is that more light can enter the basement with a window above the ground in the basement. An elevated bungalow usually has a ground-level foyer located between the first floor and the basement. Thus it further has the advantage of creating a foyer with very high ceilings without compromising on raising the roof or creating skylights. The bungalows that are raised often have garages in the basement. Because the basement is not very deep, and the ground should be sloping down from the building, the slope of the entrance is quite shallow. It avoids losses from steep roads found in most other underground garages. The bungalows without the basement can still be raised, but the advantages of raising bungalows are much less.
Ranch bungalow
A ranch bungalow is a bungalow arranged so that the bedroom is on one side and the "common" area (kitchen, living/dining room/family) is on the other side. If there is an attached garage, the garage is on the public side of the building so that a direct entrance is possible, currently permitted by law. In more narrow areas, public areas are in front of buildings and such organizations are not usually called "farm bungalows". Such buildings are often smaller and have only two bedrooms at the rear as needed.
Main Bungalow
The term main bungalow is commonly used to describe a very large and detailed craftsmanship house in the United States. The design is usually associated with California architects such as Greene and Greene, Bernard Maybeck, and Julia Morgan.
References
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