Iceland Grass Roofed Houses

Laufás turf house in eyjafjörður in north iceland is one of the bigger turf houses.

Iceland grass roofed houses.

Turf houses are essentially grass roofed houses. A turf house is a house build with earth with a roof that consists of turf and grass. Bustarfell turf house in east iceland. Here you will find the original.

The top layer of the earth is used which is soil that is bound together by grass and plant roots. Skogar the turfhouse at skogafoss. The first icelandic turf houses generally had a foundation made of flat stones whereupon a wooden frame was built which had to hold the weight of the turf. Keldur is the oldest turf house in iceland and is beautifully.

Amazing turf houses you can visit today keldur in south iceland. 30 of iceland was forested when it was settled mostly with birch. It s flexible so can be rolled up like wallpaper. A list of the beautiful icelandic turf houses which i have visited on my travels in iceland the original turf houses in iceland.

Laufás turf house in north iceland. However iceland did have a large amou. Oak was the preferred timber for building norse halls in scandinavia but native birch had to serve as the primary framing material on the remote island. Skogar is a splendidly put together farm cluster on the south coast but is also so.

Icelandic turf houses were the product of a difficult climate offering superior insulation compared to buildings solely made of wood or stone and the relative difficulty in obtaining other construction materials in sufficient quantities.