The changing architectural style realized in the Palestinian domistic vernacular architecture during the end of 19th / beginning of 20th centuries - case study from hebron

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2009

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Abu-Hilal, Ashraf

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This thesis studies human habitat in Palestine focusing on the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This period, had witnessed changes on social texture, which was reflected on human habitation at various levels of: site and plan organization, size of dwellings and architectural form. The study presents a clear understanding of traditional dwellings of Alkhalil (Hebron), by placing them within their architectural and social contexts. The appearance of central hall house was part of this change; it was part of a fashion spread at the newly established neighborhoods of many Palestinian towns. Those houses are in the form of individual structures located in a defined property or garden surrounding each. A large group of buildings of this type of houses in Al-khalil are studied. Measured site survey supports the main hypothesis doing at how this fashion is found in Palestine as in other surrounding towns. The outcomes form the case study catalog focusing on Al-khalil; are compared with earlier dwelling (hosh) and with similar houses from surrounding Palestinian towns in growing circles. The main hypotheses establish the nature of this change, thus the analysis of the former and the later. To do this the earlier (Hosh) dwelling is being studied at different levels and periods. The site survey helped in understanding the traditional architectural and social values, which are maintained by the central-hall house inhabitants

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Architecture., Aesthetics of City.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/18404

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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A. Abu-Hilal, “The changing architectural style realized in the Palestinian domistic vernacular architecture during the end of 19th / beginning of 20th centuries - case study from hebron,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2009.