Question

What tradicional houses look like?

Answer 1

Ruca

This is the traditional home of the Mapuche tribe, which lives in Chile and Argentina.

These are large houses, between 120 and 240 square meters, built exclusively with natural materials.

The roof is usually formed by Junquillo or any type of brave straw.

It only has one entrance and exit door and it is always facing East.

Formerly, if you wanted to build a ruca you had to ask the Ngen-mapu spirit for permission.

The ruca shows that the human being has always had an ecological sense, has become accustomed to making houses with the surrounding materials.

It is a custom that is being rescued, that at present there is a fashion of ecological houses, like the small house that is based on the manufacture of a base of renewable materials.