Specifically a "cookie cutter" home for the same geography.
There is a lot of invaluable and invisible knowledge baked into decades or centuries of building tradition of each specific region.
I'm about to embark on a home building project myself. My wife keeps wanting a wood built house. In a country where there are hardly any...
...I just won't do it. no way.
I'm going on a traditional rubble wall building course next month so I can build some stone walls that are in keeping with our house. Also been looking at sourcing stone from local quarries - which is fortunately quite straightforward as a lot of stone is quarried around here.
Or using traditional architecture. I once lived in an apartment building that was obviously built in the 70's, and was trying to be cool and new by having all flat-angled roofs, rather than normal gabled roofs. (Sorry don't know the technical terms.) Every winter, giant hundred-pound icicles formed, threatening to drop at any time onto people walking in and out. Yeah, those gables over the entrances weren't for looks guys, they were solving a problem. Maybe you should have asked why they were there before getting rid of them.
