I mean houses in Europe and America have 4 corners (or more) whereas in Africa Natives build round houses (also in Asia afaik).
Do they have any advantages or disadvantages? Or is one solution cheaper, …?
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For one they’re easier to fit with each other to form a town or city. If you put a bunch of circles together there will be small star shaped hollow areas between them even if their sides are touching whereas rectangles can fit snugly with each other and leave no empty space, maximising the available space better. Secondly it’s easier to utilise the internal space better with a rectangle building. Not that you can’t just partition the inside of a circle in rectangles but that still leaves a curved outer wall, and most furniture is made to be placed against flat walls. If for example you design a double bed with one curved side to follow the curvature of the wall you’re making one side slightly smaller than the other, so then it’s not really a double bed. Or you can make it bigger than it has to be so that it maintains the area of a regular double bed but also hugs the wall, or you can use a regular bed but then that will leave empty space between it and the wall. This can be applied to any piece of furniture really.
When building smaller structures, often with more basic materials, with few or no rooms inside, building in a round shape helps with stability because it spreads the load equally across the entire outer wall without creating stress points like corners do. They also help with air and heat circulation so they’re ideal for that application.
Overall at this point it’s more about convention more than anything else. People can just work with squares and rectangles better. It’s easier to visualise space as rectangles and easier to make use of it.
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