Where are Tibetan dwellings usually located?

Tibetan dwellings are very distinctive. Bunkers in southern Tibet Valley, accounting rooms in pastoral areas in northern Tibet, and wooden buildings in forest areas in Yarlung Zangbo River Valley all have their own characteristics. Tibetan dwellings not only pay attention to cold, wind and earthquake prevention, but also adopt methods such as opening air doors, setting patios and skylights to better solve the influence of unfavorable natural environment factors such as climate and geography on production and life, and achieve the effect of ventilation and heating. The formation and development of religious settlements have added charm to Tibetan folk houses. For example, the residential group of Barkhor Street in Lhasa is developed around Jokhang Temple and is a typical representative of religious settlements in cities and towns. The formation of residential settlements in agricultural and pastoral areas is mostly centered on temples, freely distributed and scattered with each other, forming an unrelated pattern.

There are mainly two kinds of Tibetan dwellings: blockhouses and accounting offices.

Diaofang is a common residential building form of Tibetan people in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in southwest China and parts of Inner Mongolia.

Accounting room is the main living form of people in Naqu, Ali and other pastoral areas. Tent is a special architectural form adopted by people in pastoral areas to adapt to the mobile lifestyle of living on weeds because of its simple manufacture, flexible disassembly and transportation.