Viking Houses Straw Roof

This form that creates a sculptural architecture.

Viking houses straw roof.

We have concrete evidence of viking longhouse doors as opposed to walls roofs and windows because they like the supporting posts left clearly purposeful holes in the ground. The icelandic turf houses and the viking longhouse were general living buildings in medieval scandinavian architecture. Its distribution roughly corresponds to the distribution of the log building technique in the vernacular architecture of finland and the scandinavian peninsula. Home is where the hearth is.

The longhouses had bowed walls in plan forming a ship like outline. Countryside buildings were built of wood and they were similar to log cabins. These buildings were used for farming the roofs were covered with earth and grass was planted in the soil. Until the late 19th century it was the most common roof on rural log houses in norway and large parts of the rest of scandinavia.

Outside the house was often supported by sloping posts. With straw roof house with thatched roof. The function of these carvings was likely to protect the inhabitants of the house. Viking houses were one story buildings with slanted roofs.

Viking houses were built of wood. The hearth was central to life in the longhouse.