What is the difference between an enclosed house and an earth building?

1. Difference:

When building earth buildings, many factors are considered, such as fire protection, earthquake resistance, bandit prevention, etc. Each consideration is included in the design of the enclosed building. Compared with the earth building, it is slightly inferior. It only considers the problems of housing and kitchen. Compared with the earth building, the function is not perfect. Normally, it only has two floors. The first floor is the kitchen, the second floor is the bedroom, and the middle is the activity area.

Second, detailed explanation:

①Enclosed house:

Enclosed house is the enclosed dragon house. The enclosed dragon house is the most typical, mature and most popular among the Hakka people. Unique residential architecture. It inherits and develops the humanistic spirit and architectural art tradition of Chinese residential architecture. Its square and round enclosure structure and the comprehensive large-scale architectural form of crisscrossed halls and horizontal houses have a strong sense of traditional Chinese ethics and Feng Shui. The Hakka cultural connotation of Weilong House is very rich. From the architectural style to the folk customs, it shows the humanities and history of the Hakkas. It is an important symbol of Hakka culture. It is praised by many domestic and foreign experts as the shining pearl of the East and the wonder of residential architecture in the world.

②Tulou

Tulou is made of unbaked sandy clay and clayey sand mixed in a certain proportion, and is built with sandwich panels to form a wall. A building whose body (a few are made of adobe bricks), columns and beams and other structures are all made of wood. In short, it is any house with more than two floors using raw earth walls as a load-bearing system. According to the explanation of "Modern Hanfu Dictionary", the so-called "building" refers to "a house with two or more floors". According to this, a one-story house, even if it has raw earth walls as load-bearing walls and wood as columns and beams, cannot be called an earth building, but can only be called an earth house. Tulou is a unique large-scale residential form in the world and is known as the treasure of traditional Chinese Han residences.