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Item Number: 135198
Title: Lo spazio domestico mediterraneo : Una casa per il Cairo. Domestic space in the mediterranean : A house for Cairo
Author: Ficarelli, Loredana
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788849229967
Description: Roma: Gangemi, 2015. 28cm., pbk., 304pp. illus. Italian-English text. Summary: The analysis of Cairo's ancient domestic architecture covers the aristocratic residences of the Mameluk period (13th-i6th centuries AD) and the Ottoman period (16th-18th centuries AD). The distinctive feature of these dwellings are determined by two main aspects that are primarily responsible for the nature of the building type: the climate (the need to be protected from the sun); and the many cultural influences that have affected the gradual process of updating and reinterpreting the ancient construction and formal traditions. The Cairene house expresses a constructed form the reason behind which is the character of the environmental and climatic context. The architectural design is based on a close relationship of need between typological, morphological and structural requirements, in which the characteristics of the materials, the attention to detail and the significance of the construction systems make it possible to transform technological instruments into architectural elements. The first example of the future Arab house is consolidated in the city of Fustat. However, the Cairene house is an exception to the process of the foundation of Arabic houses, from the point when it loses the central role played by courtyards in the rest of the Arab world. The space known as the qa'a, a dedicated reception area, characterized by the rhythmic layout iwan-durqa'a-iwan, is considered the foundational element of the Cairene house. It is therefore the end of an evolutionary process, in which the Abbasid and Fatimid courtyard with iwans, understood as an uncovered living area, is transformed into a closed room: the durqa'a.
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