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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.
The widespread archaeological evidence unearthed throughout the Mleiha area dates back as far as the Palaeolithic period, some 130,000 years ago. [5] This would place the habitation of the area firmly within the time when it is thought anatomically modern human communities first left Africa and started to expand globally.
A common theme in traditional African architecture is the use of fractal scaling: small parts of the structure tend to look similar to larger parts, such as a circular village made of circular houses. [1] African architecture in some areas has been influenced by external cultures for centuries, according to available evidence.
A riad garden in the Bahia Palace of Marrakesh, built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A riad or riyad (Arabic: رياض, romanized: riyāḍ) is a type of garden courtyard historically associated with house and palace architecture in the Maghreb and al-Andalus.
Arabian Ranches is an upscale gated villa community in Dubai, United Arab Emirates launched in 2004, developed by Emaar Properties. It is located in Wadi Al Safa 6, along Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Road and in proximity to Dubai's Global Village. [1] It includes the Arabian Ranches Golf Club and the Dubai Polo & Equestrian Club.
It would add to other huge desert regreening projects also underway. The Great Green Wall in Africa, for example, was launched in 2007 to help combat desertification.
[3] [2] [12] The "place of invention" of windcatchers is thus intensely disputed; Egypt, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates all claim it. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Windcatchers vary dramatically in shape, including height, cross-sectional area, and internal sub-divisions and filters.
The heat radiated through the floor, heating the floor surface as well as the room and bath above. This heating system was invented by the Greeks in the 3rd century BC with an inefficient "proto-hypocaust", which used ducts placed under the floors and inside the walls, bringing hot air into rooms to be heated. [ 95 ]