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dogtrot
A house split by the breeze.
Two log pens under one roof with an open breezeway between them, common in the Southeastern United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The film, in words
Before air conditioning, the American South built a hallway with no walls.
It's called a dogtrot: two log cabins under one roof, with an open breezeway between them.
The breeze runs through the middle, and every room opens onto it.
One side for cooking, one side for sleeping, and the breezeway for sitting out the heat.
Also called a dog run or a possum trot, it was common across the South in the nineteenth century.
Its cousins: the engawa in Japan, and the hayat in Anatolia.
Dogtrot. A house split by the breeze.