Jun
29
2008
Architectural history of a Zulu Hut. How it is build and why it is a beehive shape, materials used.Customs?
Posted by: beehive in Homework Help
I want to know why Zulus build their houses – huts the way they did. What does the beehive shape mean, what material did they use and why. The shape changed at some point, when and why did that happen. Does the door openings of these huts all show in certain direction? Is there any windows in the huts. Is there a door. What materials did they use for the floors. Was there rooms in the hut,or was it just one open space, sleep and eat area in one.What is the traditions around these hut building, do the men or women do it, or both? And who do what. Is there any meaning in the fact that the hut is beehive shape, or is it for reasons like comfort, or is it spiritual. How big are these huts, how high are they, how big or high is the door of a hut. Is it waterproof, how do they keep warm, how do they seal it, if they do. What is the history regarding the Zulu hut. What is the architectual aspects of a Zulu hut. Where does it come from, how long ago. All the interesting bits also please.
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Construction of the huts is the role of the woman. The old-style Xhosa huts were beehive-shaped and of thatch over a light sapling frame with a floor made of clay and dung. This style is still retained for the lodge where boys undergoing initiation live in seclusion, though plastic sheets are now often used to make it more waterproof. The beehive shape has been replaced with thatched straight-walled rondavels. They are built with poles stuck in the ground and encircled with laths between which rocks are inserted and finally mixed with a mixture of clay and cattle dung. Wattle trees were introduced from Australia to help save the indigenous forests from over exploitation. Where trees are scarce, walls are commonly made now with mud ‘box’ bricks. The roof is built, often with pine poles and thatched with grass collected locally. A fire is made in the center of a hut and no outlet is made for the smoke except through a single doorway. There may sometimes be two tiny openings as windows. The circular layout is fast disappearing except in the more rural areas and the present trend is toward modern houses.
The huts are usually situated on the ridge of a hill near a stream, leaving the fertile valleys free for cultivation.
For more information on the Zulu Hut and Zulu history and culture contact Bongeka Hlengwa at .
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I am researching about how Zulu`s live. It is my impression that the homesteads are now built out of cinder blocks. Does one family live in the homestead surrounded by a wall. Does an extended family live in one homestead or does only one family live there.
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