Adaptace krušnohorského lidového domu na klimatické podmínky

• Authors: Jiří Riezner

Title variants

EN

Climate adaptation of the folk house in the Ore Mountains

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the forms of the adaption of vernacular buildings situated in the upper part of the Ore Mountains to cold climate. Unfavourable climatic conditions in the mountainous areas were a significantly restricting factor, especially in terms of agriculture and permanent settlement. The Ore Mountains folk house is a result of the century-long adaptation to cold climate, and as such it includes a set of purposeful measures. These could be seen in the layout and construction of the house (a compact house with integrated shed, specific forms of roof) and materials used (boarding or shingle-panelling to protect gables and half-timbered walls, shingle or thatch roofs). Different architectural elements, which were conditioned by the local climate and were typical for the traditional architecture in the Ore Mountains, developed there (wind porch, bay toilet, another entrance on the second floor).

Keywords

EN

adaptation; cold climate; vernacular architecture; Ore Mountains folk house

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Czech Ethnological Society
• Journal: Národopisný věstník
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 34_(76)
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 63-86
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jiří Riezner

• Česká národopisná společnost, z. s., Národní třída 3, 117 20 Praha 1, Czech Republic