Landscapes

Landscapes Wherever one goes, one can see certain homes covering the landscape. Each home varies as do the owners themselves. The only limits are money and social acceptance of what one can build. In this paper I shall talk about the similarities and differences in house types and building materials used in India (Punjab), Canada (B.C.), and Mexico. There were three types of homes that were most prevalent in Mexico. These types were as follows: the squatter homes, adobe brick homes, raw brick (brick that hasn’t been fully kilned) and the cement covered brick homes. The squatter homes in Mexico are made from anything that is cheap and readily available. Usually these homes consist of raw brick for walls and a metal or Spanish tile roof. The home itself is built on a plot that has no essential services such as electricity or running water. These homes are not very large it all depends on the amount one can afford and they range from a simple square of 8 by 8 feet or a rectangle of 8 by 12 feet. Adobe brick homes are not found in squatter settlements in Mexico. One could speculate that building on a hilltop away adobe, homes, one, brick, building, mexico, materials, squatter, roof, punjab, soil, made, lot, cement, water, walled, types, structure, plot, money, covered, walls, poles, over, itself, home, found, clay, canada, bricks, between, wooden, wall, time, three