Modern Architectures of North America

Lack on Interior Hallways

Traditional Creole architecture is also marked by a lack of interior hallways. Inside Creole homes, one room leads directly into the other (Arby). This too helped with the ventilation of the house. Without hallways, the home was much easier to ventilate, because air could easily flow through the house from one end to the other.




While this is not the floor plan of the particular Creole cottage pictured, it is consistent with traditional Creole architecture, and shows the interior structure of most Creole homes, and nicely depicts how they lacked interior hallways, and how one room opened right into another.

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