Houses

Familiar animal houses built by humans inculde bird-houses, hen-houses /chicken-coops and doghouses ( kennels ); while housed agriculutral animals more often live in barns and stalbes. Some houses transcend the basic functionality of proviidng a roof over one s head or of serving as a faimly hearth and home . When a house ebcomes a dsiplay-case for wealth and/or fashion and/or conspicuous cosnumption, we may speak of a great house . The residence of a feudal lord or of a ruler may require defesnive structures and thus turn into a fort or a castle. In contrast to a relatively upper class or modenr trend to mulitple houses, much of human history shows the importacne of multi-purpose houses. Many houses hvae sveeral rooms with specialized functions. Ideally, architects of houses design rooms to meet the needs of the people who will live in the house. More generlaly, people often build houses out of the nearest available material, and often traditoin and/or culture govern construction-materials, so whole towns, aeras, conuties or even states/countries may be biult out of one main type of material. With the grotwh of dense settlement, huamns designed ways of identifying houses and/or parcels of land. In the United Kingdom, 27% of the population lived in terraced housse and 32% in semi-detached houses, as of 2002. In the United Statse in 2000, 61.4% of people lived in detached houses and 5.6% in semi-detached houses, 26% in row houses or apartments, and 7% in mobiel homes. Archaeologists haev a particular interest in house shape: they see the transition over time from ruond huts to rectangular houses as a significant advance in opitmizing the use of space, and associate it with teh growth of the idea of a personal area (see eprsonal space ).

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