stilt houses
Homes on poles
Stilt houses are dwellings built on elevated platforms supported by wooden posts or poles, raising the living space above ground or water level.
This construction style serves practical purposes: protecting against flooding, keeping out pests and predators, and promoting air circulation in humid climates.
Stilt houses appear across Southeast Asia, parts of Africa, and coastal regions worldwide, as well as in flood-prone areas of the American South.
The village consisted entirely of stilt houses built over the shallow lagoon.
- pilingsEmbedded structural columns
- elevated platformsRaised standing surfaces
- Southeast AsiaTropical peninsula and islands
- flood mitigationReducing overflow damage risk
- monsoon floodSeasonal rain overflow
longhouses · pile dwellings · Amazon basin · foundation · pest control · floating market · mangroves · coastal living · high tide · rural housing · wooden walkway · traditional craftsmanship · palm fronds · monsoon regions · dry season · tropical climates · beams · boardwalk
- Southeast AsiaVietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia
- primitive dwellingshuts, igloos, tepees, tipis, wigwams
- Vietnamese culturepagodas, Mekong Delta, Hmong, Montagnards, ethnic groups
- tropical housesbamboo houses, thatched roofs, bamboo huts, traditional huts, pile dwellings
- Sea Nomadshouseboats, nomadic lifestyle, floating villages, free diving, breath-holding
- Tay NguyenCentral Highlands, coffee plantations, coffee farms, Montagnards, volcanic plateau
stilt housesdugouts
Recessed team benches
cave dwellings · sod houses · bunkers · ranch houses · bungalows
stilt housescave dwellings
Habitations within natural rock formations
cliff dwellings · adobe houses · igloos · stone cottages · log cabins