Traditional Housing of Palestine in the Period from 1516 to 1918

The traditional housing of Palestine in the period of the highest flowering of architecture, which fell on the period of the Ottoman Empire in 1516–1918, is considered. During the period of Turkish domination, Palestinian cities have gone through many stages of prosperity and decline in architecture, and the appearance of cities has changed throughout the whole period of the Ottoman Turks reign. Climatic factors of the organization of housing construction are considered as one of the main in terms of space-planning and structural solutions at the early stage of the city development. The volume-planning solutions of dwellings, traditional construction techniques, finishing materials and architectural details of buildings of 1516–1918 are presented. The periodization of architecture of the period considered, the main typology of residential buildings in accordance with the volume-planning and structural characteristics, as well as the time of construction are given.

E.T. ISMAIL, Magister (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.),
M.V. ZOLOTAREVA, Candidate of Architecture

Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (4, 2-ya Krasnoarmeiskaya st., St. Petersburg, 190005, Russian Federation)

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