Southern Water Tribe: Yurt and Igloo
Judging from their building style, the Southern Water Tribe community seems to be at least partially nomadic.
If you look closely at the village, you can see both styles, igloo and yurt, as well as a combination of the two.
We see Korra’s parents live in a home that combines the features of two nomadic building styles: The yurt and the igloo.
Like an igloo, the outside of their home seems to be covered/constructed from bricks cut from the snow/ice. Said snow-bricks seems to be build around a wooden frame structure similar to that of a yurt. Also note how the floor of their home is made from stone, not ice.
a portable, bent dwelling structure traditionally used by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia.
An igloo or snowhouse is a type of shelter built of snow, originally built by the Inuit.
Although igloos are usually associated with all Inuit, they were predominantly constructed by people of Canada’s Central Arctic and Greenland’s Thulearea.
Compare, in contrast, the building style of the Northern Water Tribe. It features no nomadic influence, but instead, shares architectural elements with a village in the Earth Kingdom.
