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A shorter roof will cost less money and time. Shorter roofs will be easily accessible and safer during construction and repair.
Definitely, shorter roofs will be the future trends in the design and construction of Gurage traditional houses.

The central pillar extending a bit above the roof is the perfect place to install a wind turbine to generate electricity for the home. A small motor, as small as the motor of a living room fan will do to generate enough electricity for household use.

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It is true Gurage huts and countryside life style is amazing. Note that material of the houses, the style and size vary from one cultural group to another based on weather, ecology availability of wood or other resources. Some make their houses from bamboo, others from stones, or woods. የቆለኛ ቤት እና የደገኛ ቤት አሰራሩም ይሁን የተሰራበት ይለያያል። የቆለኛ ቤት ደጋ ላይ ቢሰራ ሰውም እንሰሳውም በብርድ ያልቃል። ወይም የደገኛ ቤት ቆላ ቢሰራ ሙቀቱ አያድርስ ነው። እንድሁም የጉራጌ ጎጆ ትግራይ ወይም ሰቆጣ ተከዜ በድንጋይ ቤት ምትክ ቢሆን ከአየር መዛባት አንጻር ከሚመጣ ነጎድጓድ መቋቋም አይችልም። ስለዚህ እያንዳኑድ ባህል እንደ አካባቢው የኑሮ እና የተፈጥሮ ወጌሻ ነው።

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20 Aug 2025, 10:01

A shorter roof will cost less money and time. Shorter roofs will be easily accessible and safer during construction and repair.
Definitely, shorter roofs will be the future trends in the design and construction of Gurage traditional houses.

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The size and style of Gurage traditional houses do not vary following weather and availability of construction materials. They vary based on cultural groups.

7bet, Welene, Mesqan Gurage houses are the same. Larger and taller, some built with splender to show wealth status. The same across the board whether they are on Dega(highland) or Qola(lowland). All made of eucalyptus wood only and or bamboo.

Sodo traditional houses, are really temporary shacks like those of Oromos. Short and small in all climatic zones. No variations. Could it be that there is less abundance of eucalyptus trees in Sodo? I doubt it. Even if there exists lacknof eucalyptus, other trees grow in Sodo fertile plains and hills.

In my travel across rural Gojjam and Begemdir, on those fertile fields of greens, I have seen dense forests but they were not eucalyptus. Still, the forest had plenty of trees, tall and short, young and old, to build better houses like those of Gurage. My sense was that skill of house construction was not as advanced as in Gurage.

Stones and gravels dwell together in Tigrey and Eritrea. There you see small and short family huts built from stones, some quarried and some wild just picked up from where they laid. This style is across all climatic conditions. Absent of trees, the only available construction matsrial is stones.

Stones retain heat and cold longer than wood. In cold weather, a house built from stone absorbs cold and retains long after the cold weather gone. The same pattern during hot weather. Once the stone gets heated, it retains the heat long after the hot temperature gone. This has to do with the stones density per square inch or meter. The particles of stone are densley packed than wood.