LONG HOUSE

The longhouse is a residential building consisting of one long room. Mostly made from wood
and is an early form of permanent structure in many cultures. Some families will live
together in the longhouse.
Longhouses had two doors and no windows. One door was located on each end of the
longhouse. Numerous longhouses in an area created a village.
A longhouse is approximately 15 to 20 feet in height, 20 feet wide, including the door
opening, and could be anywhere from 40 feet to 200 feet long. The length of each longhouse
depended on how many daughters the elder mother of the clan who lived in the longhouse
had.

MINANGKABAU HOUSE

The architecture, construction, interior and exterior decoration, and the functions of the
house reflect the culture and values of the Minangkabau. A Minangkabau house served as a
residence, a hall for family meetings, and for ceremonial activities.
The houses have dramatic curved roof structure with multi-tiered, upswept gables. Shuttered
windows are built into walls incised with profuse painted floral carvings.

MALACCA MALAY HOUSE

Malacca Malay House is the traditional Malay house that can be found in Malacca. It is only

traditional Malay housed which mainly can be recognized by its glazed and multicoloured
tiles on the staircases which are imported from Europe and China.

 A typical traditional Melaka house stands on 12 to 16 main pillars, usually two metres high.

The decorative flower-motif tiled steps are its most striking feature.

B. HOUSE MODERN
INTRODUCTION
built this house with expertise and modern technology. Such houses are built using
rocks, cement, steel, and glass.
1. TERRACE HOUSE

In the style of architecture and urban plan , a terrace or row house or town house is a style of
middle-density housing that originated in Europe in the late 17th century, where a row of similar
houses or mirror-image for share side walls. The first homes and ended nicknamed end terrace , and
is often larger than houses in the middle. terraced houses were laying off different parts of the
spectrum of society in western society.

2. FLATS

Apartments or apartment is a housing unit complete self (an accommodation property comprises
only part of the building. Such buildings may be called an apartment building , flats , blocks of
flats or, occasionally mansion block , especially if it consists of many units for rent. Apartments
may be owned by the owner / occupier or rented by tenants (two types of housing period).

3. BUNGALOW

is a house (usually) one floor. Houses of this type were originally small, only one story, thatched
roof, and mempunyaiambi serwide. Bungalow today is kind of a separate home that usually has a
story, a story and a half, or two floors, and there is also considerable.

4. CONDOMINIUM

A condominium, or condo, is the form of the right to use housingwhere certain parts of the real
estate (generally room apartment) is privately owned while use of and access to facilities such as
hallways, heating system, elevators, exterior is under huukm associated with private ownership and
controlled by owner associations that represent ownership of the whole piece. This term is often
used to refer to the unit itself replace the word "apartment".

DIFFERENT TYPE OF HOUSES

IN MALAYSIA