Longhouses

Today, in keeping with the recent trend of micromanaging the weekends of students here, us architecture kiddies were bused off to the Frilandsmuseum just outside of the city. First of all, doubledecker buses. Pretty cool.


The museum is large. Very large, as we discovered by wandering around it all day. Basically it's an enclosure in which numerous traditional Danish dwellings have been assembled. It's such a change from the U.S. where there is really no cohesive architectural style. Here houses are easily distinguishable by geographical location, based upon materials, roof pitch, colors, and so on.

There was a plethora of windmills.

Vibrant, no?

Something about this scene is indescribably European. 

A storage building from the Faroe Islands.

Almost every building had a thatched roof, and those that don't have terracotta tiles. The style of building is called a længe, which means 'long'. So essentially I spent the day checking out Viking longhouses. That's a Sunday well-spent if I do say so myself