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dense building mass on a rectangular plan, high roof, playing the role of a thermal buffer for the ground floor; it has an appropriate slope angle – ca. 48° – and eaves protruding out of the external walls at 80 cm (protection of external walls including the gable walls and building entrance zone), canopy in a form of a recess, placed in the gable wall and protecting the entrance (in tightly builtup settlements, e.g. in Smolno) |
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• small usable height of rooms – ca. 2.2 m. |
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two-bay layout dividing the interior into a cool zone (farming rooms) and warm zone (representative rooms), entrance hall protecting the building’s interior against wind and inflow of cold air; the entrance zone is protected against atmospheric conditions by an external architectural element – eaves, presence of only one chimney – concentration of heating and kitchen facilities, constituting a massive reservoir of heat energy, in the central part of a building |
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application of local building materials with good thermoinsulating properties (wood, clay on perches as well as reed, characterized by relatively high ability of heat accumulation), the timber-framed walls filled with brick are covered by pugging made of gravel and clay |
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few window openings with small areas depending on the zone connected to interior temperature (the ratio of window area to floor area is equal ca. 1:13), wooden shutters by larger windows |
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joining of dwelling and farming parts – improvement of the energy balance (hamlet-type settlements, e.g. in Karwieńskie Błota and Swarzewo), orientation of a dwelling house towards the sun (for the house in Nadole, the declination from the N-S direction is equal ca. 35° towards the west) |