With dwelling one marks one of two closely connected concepts:

• A firm dwelling, in which one or more humans have their durable point of food.
• An final part of a larger building, in which humans live. This meaning is a special case of the first meaning and that, which are colloquially with dwelling usually meant.

A dwelling is a number of areas within a firm building those for living purposes serve and the independent possible make.

One differentiates between final and final dwellings

An final dwelling is therefore a dwelling thus a number of areas within a firm building those for living purposes serves and the independent possible makes, with which all dwellings lie coherently behind the housing entrance door and for form a unit closed in itself. Only secondary rooms may lie outside of the dwelling.

Dwelling as dwelling

Since humans began with agriculture, partly probably before, they live in firm, dwellings, which one also dwelling or domicile calls. Such a dwelling serves the protection from the weather, security, the preparation and storage of food, the hygiene, in addition, the own organization clearance and the representation.

Apart from the need after food and clothes the need after a dwelling is counted to the human basic needs.

During long periods dwellings were inhabited almost exclusively by families; only in modern industriellen and post office postindustriellen societies spread individual households, group houses and similar living forms to larger extent.

Dwellings can be among other things:

• Single family houses
• Dwellings in the second, down described sense
• House-similar structures such as living containers
• Caves

Mobile dwellings, which are again developed like tents off and, are often not regarded as dwelling in this sense.

Dwelling as part of a house

A dwelling in this sense is usually more consisting of several belonging together rooms, an outward final range within a building. It serves particulars or several persons as dwelling in the more general sense described above.

The size of a dwelling is measured either by the floor space or by the number of rooms. With the floor space one speaks thereby of square meters. At the number of rooms its own counting method was established:

• Kitchen, bath and corridor do not count as a room.
• Bedrooms, living rooms and office, as well as all other well habitable rooms count than whole rooms.
• If deviations from pulse flatness are present, under certain conditions departures must be made for the computation of the floor space by the actual floor space:

The surface areas of areas and space divisors with a headroom of at least 2 m are complete, - of areas and space divisors with a headroom of at least 1 m and less than 2 m are to the half, - from unbeheizbaren winter gardens, swimming pools and similar in all directions closed areas are to the half, - by balconies, loggias, roof gardens and terraces are to be usually taken into account to the half. (S. also DIN 277)

A large part of the German population lives in rented dwellings and not in residential property.

See also

• Free-hold flat
• Vacation home
• House exchange
• Homelessness
• Black dust (Fogging effect)
• Intelligent living

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