Diyarbakır Great Mosque is a community building located in the district of Cami-i Kebir northwest traditional city area surrounded by walls. The on Gazi Street opposite Hasan Pasha Han inside road, and eastern entrance overlooks square which very likely corresponds to old forum Amida. Surrounded streets North West, South Sipahi Bazaar. Around full court near building, south there are: Hanafis s...

The camp had been christened Balakot Hospital, a glorious name for an altogether inglorious collection of canvas tents and steel operating containers that was the center of a spreading field of refugee tents marked “UNHCR” or “Iran Red Crescent.” Before the earthquake, our camp had been the science high school for this small Northern Pakistani town nestled on the border of Punjab and Kashmir. A...

Abstract This paper by reviewing the main examples of small to medium-scale retractable roof structures covering building courtyards is to present an innovative rigid retractable roof system employing spatial frames for a courtyard of an existing building in Tabriz Islamic Art University. The courtyard is currently used for temporary exhibitions and gatherings whenever permitted by environmenta...

islamic societies have a deep sense of personal privacy and solitude, which is reflected in their traditional architecture, so that the houses, within the inner face are so that the houses, within the inner face are latency the hijab and muslim homes, the division of space within and outside the cities is one of the most attractive features of islamic cities introverts of the city's archit...

V an Gogh painted The Prison Courtyard while " imprisoned " himself, in the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint Rémy. He died 5 months later of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the culmination of his long struggle with physical and mental illness (1). The first Dutch master since the 17th century, van Gogh did not become an artist until 10 years before the end of his life. His early interests ...

T get to the maternal and child health station in Mahamadia, a Moslem Arab village, you alight from the bus at the foot of Mount Tabor, slide down a hill, and find yourself in a courtyard with children and sheep. Bahija, the practical nurse, greets you and laughs as she tells of the Jewish paediatrician who, because of religious tenets forbidding touching a strange woman, refused to take her he...

Dhondo, the eldest son of Sadashiv Antarkar a priest, was born and grew up in a beautiful small village ‘Dugave’ of Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra. The village had a tranquil surrounding and abundant natural wealth. While his two younger siblings were busy playing in the courtyard of their house with make-believe toys made out of mango and jackfruit tree leaves, Antarkar was either engrossed...

Stabled horses commonly perform stereotypic patterns of weaving, where the horse shifts its weight from side to side often swinging its head. Ten warm-blood types, of which five were known to reliably weave, were housed in similar 12x12 ft wooden loose boxes in a single stable block surrounding a courtyard. Each horse was exposed to each of five stable designs. These were: the conventional fron...