Houses with a Central Courtyard. House Concepts in the Late Ninevite 5 Period at Tell Arbid

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-124
Author(s):  
Anna Smogorzewska
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Domestic Architecture ◽  
Economic Organization ◽  
Courtyard House

AbstractHouses with central courtyards, examples of which were uncovered at Tell Arbid, show that standardization in house plans and spatial organization characteristic for EJZ 3 domestic architecture, can be traced back to the late Ninevite 5 period. Houses of this type were built at plots of lands and had a regular internal layout. Also in terms of socio-economic organization houses with central courtyards of late Ninevite 5 date can be regarded as a reference to the EJZ 3 period.

Mansions to Margins: Modernity and the Domestic Landscapes of Historic Delhi, 1847-1910

2001 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jyoti Hosagrahar
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Architecture ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
The City ◽  
Domestic Landscapes ◽  
Courtyard House

This essay examines the ways in which the private, domestic landscape of historic Delhi changed between 1847 and 1910. I look at Delhi's ubiquitous introverted courtyard house, the haveli, during a time of dramatic cultural dislocation. Modernity and the British colonial presence together had the consequence of fragmenting sprawling princely mansions to modest dwellings and tenement houses or redefining them as more rational and efficient homes. Tracing the transformation of the haveli in form and meaning serves as a mirror to the changes in the city during the time. In Delhi, monolithic and oppositional categorization of "traditional" and "modern" masked more complex identities as the quintessential "traditional" city grew and changed in ways that were distinctly "untraditional." The landscapes of domestic architecture reveal a city struggling to define itself as modern-on its own terms.

The transition of spatial organisation planning of pre and post-colonial housing in Khartoum

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gadsiah M.A. Ibrahim ◽  
Tallal A. Saeed ◽  
Tamir El-Khouly
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Spatial Arrangement ◽  
Domestic Architecture ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Syntax Analysis ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Space Syntax Analysis

PurposeThe focus of this paper is the changes in domestic social patterns from independence (1956) in Khartoum and their effects on domestic architecture, analysed using space syntax analysis. The built representation of the political change in Khartoum, which had led economic, cultural and social transformation, has not been well investigated. The domestic architecture is envisaged here to reflect the change from a liberal and secular British colonial lifestyle to a post-colonial native conservative and religious one.Design/methodology/approachThe study explored twenty representative samples from the two eras in order to reveal the hidden nature of these patterns by employing space syntax analysis, particularly convex mapping. This analysis attempted to both decipher space transition and to identify patterns. Interviews were conducted to interpret the social meaning of these configurations and to factor in the historical context of the transition.FindingsThe analytical comparisons revealed that these socio-cultural changes had subtle effects on the transformations experienced in the use and spatial organization. The change shows the emerging dominance of privacy: the relationship with exterior had started to diminish, and some interior spaces were redefined. This privacy centred patterns also, in many post-colonial cases, have pushed the core of integration deeper in the access graph.Social implicationsThe study sheds lights on the transition in the Sudanese society, reflected on the spatial arrangement of houses and traditions. It is directed to the Sudanese as well as regional societies who passed the transition before and after colonial eras.Originality/valueThe enclosed j-graph study on houses' plans is original and haven't been investigated using this space syntax approach.

scholarly journals LIVING TOGETHER IN RÍO BEC HOUSES: CORESIDENCE, RANK, AND ALLIANCE

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 469-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Charlotte Arnauld ◽  
Dominique Michelet ◽  
Philippe Nondédéo
Keyword(s):  
Classic Maya ◽  
Domestic Architecture ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
Economic Organization ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Social Unit ◽  
Residential Patterns ◽  
Terminal Classic ◽  
Living Together

AbstractIn an attempt to interpret Classic Maya elite and commoner residential patterns beyond usual assumptions about filiation, family cycle, and household economic adaptation, we explore the specific ways people were “living together,” in the sense of the coresidence concept, in Maya societies conceived of as ranked societies, or “house societies,” as created by Claude Lévi-Strauss. Beyond kinship and economic organization, residential patterns can be understood as part of long-term strategies designed by inhabitants to integrate their social unit into the politico-religious city. The residential system of the Río Bec zone, where a major research project was carried out from 2002 to 2010, offers a series of well-defined architectural solutions, some of them common to most central lowlands cities, while others are innovative as forerunners of the northern lowlands large multiroom palaces. This paper analyzes Late and Terminal Classic period Río Bec domestic architecture in order to outline the material correlates of coresidence, growth, ranking, and alliance within and between Classic Maya social groupings.

Computational Micrograph Registration with Sieve Processes

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 440-441
Author(s):  
P.J. Phillips ◽  
J. Huang ◽  
S. M. Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Planar Graph ◽  
Efficient Algorithm ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Spatial Arrangement ◽  
Stereo Image ◽  
Image Model ◽  
Geometric Invariants ◽  
Point Set

In this paper we present an efficient algorithm for automatically finding the correspondence between pairs of stereo micrographs, the key step in forming a stereo image. The computation burden in this problem is solving for the optimal mapping and transformation between the two micrographs. In this paper, we present a sieve algorithm for efficiently estimating the transformation and correspondence.In a sieve algorithm, a sequence of stages gradually reduce the number of transformations and correspondences that need to be examined, i.e., the analogy of sieving through the set of mappings with gradually finer meshes until the answer is found. The set of sieves is derived from an image model, here a planar graph that encodes the spatial organization of the features. In the sieve algorithm, the graph represents the spatial arrangement of objects in the image. The algorithm for finding the correspondence restricts its attention to the graph, with the correspondence being found by a combination of graph matchings, point set matching and geometric invariants.

Caveolin-1, galectin-3 and lipid raft domains in cancer cell signalling

2015 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 189-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Shankar ◽  
Cecile Boscher ◽  
Ivan R. Nabi
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Lipid Rafts ◽  
Cancer Cell ◽  
Cellular Response ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Essential Feature ◽  
Cell Signalling ◽  
Coated Pits ◽  
Signalling Molecules ◽  
Raft Domains

Spatial organization of the plasma membrane is an essential feature of the cellular response to external stimuli. Receptor organization at the cell surface mediates transmission of extracellular stimuli to intracellular signalling molecules and effectors that impact various cellular processes including cell differentiation, metabolism, growth, migration and apoptosis. Membrane domains include morphologically distinct plasma membrane invaginations such as clathrin-coated pits and caveolae, but also less well-defined domains such as lipid rafts and the galectin lattice. In the present chapter, we will discuss interaction between caveolae, lipid rafts and the galectin lattice in the control of cancer cell signalling.

The Economic Organization of the Household

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Keith Bryant ◽  
Cathleen D. Zick
Keyword(s):  
Economic Organization
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