Utilization of Mongolian GER’s spatial configuration in modern housing

Year 2019, Volume: 7 Issue: 3, 387 - 400, 30.09.2019

Ariunaa Ganbat

Abstract

A living environment made by human being has been developing, up to dating, improving or maybe even getting
worse in some cases either by sustaining its past tradition and history or removing the existing culture pursuing
“new” style of living environment through the history of architecture and urban planning. This study investigates the
possibilities of utilization and adjustment of architectural characteristics and spatial configuration of Mongolian GER
houses for the modern housing settlements . The GER, a Mongolian traditional housing is a portable, round tent with
cone-like roofing and covered by skin or felt under canvas and used for the thousands of years as a dwelling by
nomads in the steppes of the country. An ongoing migration (began in 1990s) from rural areas to Ulaanbaatar, the
capital city of Mongolia formed a GER settlement area which causes the over half of an air and a soil pollution
existing according to its urban infrustructureless state. Design concept of a space that has been formed over the
centuries provides data for building types such as mass housing for single living people, small families, students,
rural to capital migrants of Mongolia, emergency housing for natural disaster victims.

Keywords

traditional housing, Mongolian GER, mass housing, emergency housing

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