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Traditional architecture in the United Arab Emirates was heavily influenced by the desert landscape, culture, lifestyle and available building materials. [7] The Bedouin, a nomadic Arab tribe who traditionally live in the desert were well known for using palm frond shelters, known as arish in the summer months.
"Prefabricated" may refer to buildings built in components (e.g. panels), modules (modular homes) or transportable sections (manufactured homes), and may also be used to refer to mobile homes, i.e., houses on wheels. Although similar, the methods and design of the three vary widely. There are two-level home plans, as well as custom home plans ...
The Almoravid dynasty united northwest Africa and Iberia under one empire, and brought Andalusi architects to North Africa. [ 66 ] [ 63 ] A similar situation persisted under the Almohads, whose buildings (e.g. the Kutubiyya Mosque ) further cemented many stylistic trends that would characterize the architecture of the region. [ 67 ]
Elmina Castle, the first slave fort in West Africa, was also the first European prefabricated building in Sub-saharan Africa. [3]: 93 In North America, in 1624 one of the first buildings at Cape Ann was probably partially prefabricated, and was rapidly disassembled and moved at least once.
The fornacatores in charge of the homes were slaves who lived on site, they worked as a team; their task was to ensure the continuity of the home's supply, from the stock of fuel and the orders of the supervisor or balneator, to maintain the correct temperature of the pools, to the satisfaction of the owners and users of the thermal baths.
We found this remote little home tucked away in the desert in Tucson, Arizona. The 1,450-square-foot house is only one story and sits on a 4.5 acre lot, giving it a simple, cube-like aesthetic.
The Sahara (/ s ə ˈ h ɑːr ə /, / s ə ˈ h ær ə /) is a desert spanning across North Africa. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi), it is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic. [1] [2] [3]
The typical desert castle is a compound of various buildings including a substantial main residence along with other buildings such as a hammam (bath-house), storage areas and other agrarian structures (walled areas for animals, dedicated buildings for processing produce such as olive oil), and possibly a mosque, all within a large enclosure.