CIVILIZATION MESOPOTAMIAN CIVILIZATION ASPECTS ARCHITECTURE INTERIORS ARCHITECTURE TOWN PLANING PUBLIC PLACES amp GARDANS INSTITUTIONS LAYOUTS amp HOUSING ID: 371363
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MESOPOTAMIAN CIVILIZATION
MESOPOTAMIAN
CIVILIZATIONSlide2
ASPECTS
ARCHITECTURE
INTERIORS Slide3
ARCHITECTURE
TOWN PLANING
PUBLIC PLACES & GARDANS
INSTITUTIONS
LAYOUTS & HOUSING
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HOUSES
The materials used to build a Mesopotamian house were the same as those used today: mud brick, mud plaster and wooden doors, which were all naturally available around the city, although wood could not be naturally made very well during the particular time period described.
HOUSES FACED INWARD TOWARD OPEN COURTYARD WHICH PROVIDES A COOLING EFFECT BY CREATING CONVECTION
CURRents.this
courtyard called “
tarbasu”,was
the primary organizing feature of the house ,all rooms opened into
it.the
external walla had only one single opening connecting the houses to the strret.The sumerians had a strict division of public and private spaces. The typical size for a sumerian house was 90 sq. m.Slide5
Layouts
The Sumerians were the first society to create the city itself as a built form. They were proud of this achievement as attested in the
Epic of Gilgamesh
.
The typical city divided space into residential, mixed use, commercial, and civic spaces. The residential areas were grouped by profession.
At the core of the city was a high temple complex always sited slightly off of the geographical center. This high temple usually predated the founding of the city and was the nucleus around which the urban form grew. Slide6
The city always included a belt of irrigated agricultural land including small hamlets. A network of roads and canals connected the city to this land.
The transportation network was organized in three tiers: wide processional streets (Akkadian:
sūqu
ilāni
u
šarri
), public through streets (
Akkadian:sūqu nišī), and private blind alleys (Akkadian:mūṣû).The public streets that defined a block varied little over time while the blind-alleys were much more fluid. The current estimate is 10% of the city area was streets and 90% buildings.[5] The canals; however, were more important than roads for transportation.Slide7
Public places
TEMPLES:
Temples often predated the creation of the urban settlement and grew from small one room structures to elaborate
multiacre
complexes across the 2,500 years of Sumerian history. Sumerian temples, fortifications, and palaces made use of more advanced materials and techniques, such as
buttresses
,
recesses
, and half columns.Slide8Slide9
ZIGGURATS
Ziggurats were huge pyramidal temple towers built in the ancient
Mesopotamian valley
and western
Iranian plateau
, having the form of a terraced
step pyramid
of successively receding stories or levels. There are 32 ziggurats known at, or near, Mesopotamia—28 in
Iraq and 4 in IranThe top of the ziggurat was flat, unlike many pyramids. The step pyramid style began near the end of the Early Dynastic Period.Slide10Slide11
GARDENS
Text sources indicate open space planning was a part of the city from the earliest times. The description of
Uruk
in the
Epic of Gilgamesh
tells of one third of that city set aside for orchards. Similar planned open space is found at the one fifth enclosure of
Nippur
. Another important landscape element was the vacant lot (
Akkadian: kišubbû) which was used alternatively for agriculture and waste disposal.Slide12Slide13
INTERIORThe mud-brick houses of the Sumerian and Old Babylolyan Tigris-Euphrates Valley resembled their modern counterparts.Slide14
In most houses decoration probably was confined to a Wide black or Dark colored stone.Slide15
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