What is a house?

The villa is a European and American style house. Generally, it is a detached or duplex villa-style house with four or three sides facing the sky, with obvious western style, living room, dining room and several bathrooms.

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The strange situation witnessed in 20 years is the 49th time: "I rented a villa on Wuma Road and named it Jinghua Foreign Firm."

Mao Dun? "Midnight" XII: "A five-bedroom three-story building with only two window lights on the third floor."

Extended data:

Narrow sense of "garden villa": garden villa, that is, garden-style residence, western-style residence, small bungalow, single-family bungalow with garden lawn and garage, or small building with two or three floors, emphasizing that every household has a garden, including townhouses in the market.

Garden house in a broad sense: Garden house in a broad sense is no longer a villa. In a sense, it is more appropriate to call them garden houses or garden apartments. At present, most of the garden houses in the market are garden houses in a broad sense. From the perspective of the national real estate market, garden houses in a broad sense can be defined as:

The multi-storey slab buildings below 1 1 are mainly four floors, with obvious foreign architectural style, emphasizing good landscape and high greening rate, and generally exist in the outer suburbs. Generally, the first floor is for the garden, the top floor is for the terrace, and outdoor greening landscape is also introduced indoors.

Garden houses originated in Shanghai, and have been exclusively owned by the upper classes in Shanghai, Fujian and Guangdong since the middle of19th century. They are the products of the interweaving of western civilization and lifestyle with China culture. More specifically, it was a scarce and high-profit residential product developed by domestic real estate developers in response to the market demand brought by the construction of Shanghai Concession at that time, aiming at specific minority classes, adopting western architectural forms, new engineering technologies and new building materials. Judging from the current definition of real estate, the garden villa at that time was equivalent to the single-family villa in the real estate market now.

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Baidu encyclopedia-foreign house