Rural poor. Architecture as global. Hungary.Rural Hungary is like any other rural area - some poorer, some more well-to-do. Bifurcate this multe-family house, and this coudbe Ireland, anywhere.
This neighborhood was in a village on the way, as we drove cross-country, from Budapest back to Slovakia. Ethnic group? Unknown. Perhaps settled gypsy? We considered that, because of the quick movements behind curtains, people left their yards as soon as we stopped to get our bearings.
See the eyelid windows below: no sharp eaves to leak.
Architecture: eyelid windows, in eaves, at roof areas. Eastern EuropeLook at the blue roof there. Watching. Eyelid windows are seen often in both traditional and modern houses - and in Romania (especially in Sibiu, to us - Sibiu windows - where roof eyes follow you everywhere) and many other countries.
They are coming here. See also in the Hartford Courant 1/31/07 at the Money and Business section, D-1, by Robin Stansbury and photo in newspaper by Stephen Dunn: upscale homes with architectural features including these eyelid windows, as a way of opening up attic and eaves to living space with light. Nothing new.
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