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A typical jungle hut in Brazilian Amazonia, made of straw and supported by stilts. It is used by rubber tree collectors.

A hut is a small and crude shelter, usually used for dwelling. Its design favors local techniques and materials to allow for swift and inexpensive construction.

Huts are used as temporary shelter by people. Huts are quickly built of natural materials such as ice, leather, fur, straw, palm leaves, and/or mud and exist in practically all nomadic cultures. Some huts are easily transportable.

Huts are used by shepherds during movement of livestock between seasonal grazing areas such as mountainous and lowland pastures (transhumance). Some displaced populations of people use huts throughout the world during a diaspora. Temporary collectors in wilderness, for example, agricultural workers at plantations in the Amazon jungle. Huts have been built for purposes such as storage, workshops, and teaching.

The term has also been adopted by climbers and backpackers to refer to a more solid and permanent structure offerring refuge. These vary from simple bothies - which are little more than very basic shleters; to alpine huts which are far more luxurious and can even include facilities such as restaurants.

Mud huts are huts which are specifically made from raw earth which contains high levels of clay for maximised strength and cohesion. Clay content is the number one most important constituent of mud, closely followed by moisture content. Mud colour is also a strong factor as seen in the Hussixavnz clan of northern Niger where only the leader of each tribe may have a hut which uses red clay. Mudhuts are quickly becoming a more predominant structure in developing countries as they are seen to be stronger than mere shanties. What may be more intriguing to many international architecture observers is the sudden rise of mud hut usage in western countries such as Australia, the UK, and the USA. There is a niche market where the coolness facotr of mudhuts has skyrocketed to see mud become just as valuable as brick. their quick build time (an average mudhut takes 45 minutes to create) is seeing mud huts prop up everywhere from the western suburbs of sydney to the CBD.

Some noted celebrities have decided to purchase expensive land to build mudhuts, most famous of note is Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman, collectively known and from here on in, Urbanman (Not to be confused with superhero, Urbanman, who shares the same name as the collective name of Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman) They demolished a 3 million dollar mansion in Beverly Hills with the bare hands to build a modest mudhut. Here, she regularly throws parties and smears mud all over her body in a attempt to try and feel like, "how Angelina Jolie felt when she put mud on her face."

Mud huts are normally sturdy and attract many insects and quite surprisingly, polar animals. Polar animals such as polar bears, penguins, ice horses and snow cones possess a chromosone tagged as the "mud chromosone." Here, they become extremely attracted to mud and as mud huts are becoming increasingly prominent within the countries close to the antarctic, they have been known to migrate and attempt to mate with the mudhut. But as mudhuts do not share the same amount of chromosones as these polar animals - let alone possess any chormosones - fertilisation is not successful.

Another trend in mud huts is the social status and living standards the residents commit to. Common amongst the middle class to the higher class, once they build the mudhut, they normally rid of all their possessions and 21st Century technology and luxuries, and prefer to live in extremely low, third world country style conditions. This includes cooking on fire, a lack of furniture, and a strong affinity within the youth community to play stick and wheel game. Most philosophers and scholars have commmented on the fact that the mudhut has bridged the gap between the ever expanding upper and lower class. Some have commented the homely feel of the mudhut whereas the strongest critics have voiced out opinions of de-evolutionising human kind.

• Rondavel - Central and South Africa
• Mokhoro - Central and South Africa
• Yurt - Central and North Asia
• Tipi - Central North America
• Tule hut - Coastal North America, West Coast, Northern California
• Cabana
• Kabano
• Hytte
• Barracks
• Igloo
• Quinzhee
• Burdei Ukraine, Canada

Hut is used to name commercial stores, companies and concepts. This is in an effort to transmit the idea of a cozy place in a corner where you can get things, such as in Pizza Hut. Huts built in parks or public places are sometimes used to sell food and other wares.

• Hut for other meanings
• Alpine hut
• Bothy
• Backcountry hut
• Nissen hut
• Quonset hut
• Wilderness hut

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