Cool. Friends of mine and their toddler daughter lived in a small Cambodian village for about a year about 30ish years ago. They said after about a month or two of living there the village got together and got them a front door as a welcome gift because up until that point they didn’t have one.
Walled house
Are there houses that aren’t?
There sure are, especially prevalent in Cambodia
Is the photo of something else? The image clearly shows a building with walls.
No the photo is correct. They’re two story structures where only the upper floor has any type of wall, and the word wall there is doing a lot of heavy lifting. They aren’t really part of the structure of the house, and can often be detached or opened. Depending on the style of roof they don’t even go all the way up to meet it. The unwalled ground floor isn’t “underneath” the house like one of those stilted New Jersey shore houses, that’s actual living space.
This is opposed to the type of house in OPs post or in the western world where the entire structure is enclosed by permanent walls.
I guess if you’re a hobbit
Gotta watch out for those un-walled houses though, I knew somebody who got one once… thing looked just like a gazebo.
Beautiful design
That’s a beautiful house. I love that they just said fuck it and let the rain spout spray into the cistern from 5 feet off the ground
look closer. I think it has one of those rolling out type drain sleaves, that will roll out when it fills and then roll back when its emptyupon further review, you are right, it looks like a s-trap on the end
Looks like a blue s-bend at the end. Would create a gross spot for mosquitoes to grow.
It’s a variation of this style of rural Khmer house:
Are they built in flood-prone areas, or are they just on stilts for fun?
I can’t answer for these houses but in northern Australia, where it is incredibly hot and humid, they (used to) build houses like this to improve airflow and help keep the house cooler, as well as for flood protection.
In Lismore (also Australia), the stilts had to be high because white man built a town where the aboriginals warned it floods routinely. Guess what we found out in 2022? Turns out no matter how tall the stilts are, you’ll still get flooded.
Looks pretty swanky
