Friday, August 13, 2010

Buildings and Landscape of Ilmenau

The buildings here in Ilmenau are different than the buildings in Cincinnati for the main fact of how they look from the outside. A lot of the buildings that I have noticed are stucco and have this color to them that is cool but reminds me of buildings from the 70´s, like they are faded and have they same feeling of how did they pick the colors but in a sense it looks looks cool on some of the buildings. There are a couple of different buildings those. Like on campus, they have a whole bunch different kinds of buildings. They have stucco, and brick and buildings one with siding and more windows on it than the others. Like this building, a lot of buildings are vibrantly colored and some of them are painted with a diverse amount of colors, not just one.


Although a few of the houses had siding, most of them are Stucco, but I noticed a really cool blue house that I thought was awesome, plus it appeared to be a little bit more open than the other houses. A lot of the houses by our hostel are close together though. And a lot of them that I noticed are either fenced in or have hedges or trees around them. Quite a few also have some kind of floral decoration and/or Gnomes or something in the yard. In fact a business that looks like a house has a decorative tree in it´s front yard.
I noticed this house that is in the middle of being built on the way to the computer concourse. I noticed that they use a cement block sized brick to form the basic house, like they do in Cincinnati with smaller buildings. before they finish the outside, it looks like they do a lot of inside work, but the basic frame outside is done including the roof.

2 comments:

  1. I really like this blue house also. It's relatively new. I saw it getting built on an earlier visit to the city. There is an orange one near it that's interesting also. Did you notice the house currently being built near them? What differences do you see in how houses are built?

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  2. Please explain how this different landscape reflects what you are learning about German culture. What were the cultural insights you learned from this reflective writing exercise?

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