{"id":2473,"date":"2021-01-08T09:36:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T09:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heradsskolinn.is\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2022-10-13T14:38:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T14:38:05","slug":"architecture-in-south-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heradsskolinn.is\/is\/2021\/01\/08\/architecture-in-south-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"Architecture in South Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Icelandic architecture has influence from Scandinavia and lack of trees native to the island. This is what results in turf and grass covered houses. The Swiss Chalet style has a prevailing inspiration in the culture of Iceland. Several timber constructions were built this way. Concrete and stone were popularly used as construction materials. These styles differ all around the country. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Architecture in South Iceland<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The architecture is primarily low-rise with 2 or 3 storey constructions. Smaller municipal constructions and houses were wooden-framed. It is clad in corrugated metal and wooden planks. They appear in conventional bright colors. A lot of architectural influences are observed in the capital like Swiss chalet style.<\/span><\/p>\n

History of Architecture in South Iceland<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

OlafurEliasson and Einar\u00deorsteinn\u00c1sgeirsson is credited for the appearance and structure of Harpa. The reconstructed replica of the longhouse makes use of the original construction method of a stone base, turf roof\/walls and wood frame. Several of the 19th<\/sup> century Reykjavik\u2019s homes are accumulated in the foreground with the Harpa Concert Hall and modern skyscrapers along seaside.<\/span><\/p>\n

South Iceland has different helter-skelter collage of various designs, influences and styles. Despite nation\u2019s capital and a metropolitan, Reykjavik has no definite direction with respect to architecture.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00dej\u00f3\u00f0veldisb\u00e6rinn, located in \u00dej\u00f3rs\u00e1rdalur, is a Viking longhouse that is reconstructed with turf, wood and stone together forming a natural space.<\/span><\/p>\n

Their housing designs, scattered farmsteads come from the Viking Age and the Settlement Era. They are an integral section of Icelandic culture. Icelandic people lived in their precarious, magnificent and natural surroundings in harmony.<\/span><\/p>\n

Until the 20th<\/sup> century from the age of settlement, turf houses were dominating. They were timber houses, based on longhouse designs of Denmark, Norway, Scottish Isles and Sweden.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a>The turf houses were based on the foundation which were generally one or more rock layers. However, with a wooden base, double stacked walls and compressed soil lining for isolation, the Icelandic homes became iconic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the sites to view Architecture in South Iceland<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n