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The Greenway House is a new residence located in the Garden City of Coral Gables, Florida, inspired by the early revival architecture of the City and traditional architecture. The residence is located in an in-fill site and designed to incorporate a specimen oak tree which is seen from the main house and the carriage house. Unlike typical houses in the neighborhood whose massing is parallel to the street with front and rear yards defined by property setbacks, the orientation of the Greenway main house and carriage house is perpendicular to the street. This orientation allows one to experience the garden, the courtyard with its pool, and the prominent oak tree as part of the architectural ensemble of subtropical components appropriate to the site’s geographic and urban setting. The Greenway House is specifically designed as requested by the clients to be at once traditional in terms of place-making, spatial sequences and the making of the rooms that are identifiable; while still considering contemporary, domestic living where spaces are visually connected and fairly open to the natural environment.

This contribution investigates Neolithic communities in Western Anatolia and the southern Balkans (6800-5600 BC) through the settlement context of structures associated with food preparation, including ovens, hearths, grinding installations and storage facilities. The study area plays a key role in current Neolithization debates, both because of its geographical position between Southwest Asia and Europe and because of a wealth of new field data, which complicate and challenge traditional Neolithization models. I argue that food practices attest regional trajectories of change in the definition of Neolithic ways of life, as well as interactions between regional cultures.

This paper presents our ongoing work in the Virtual Interiors project, which aims to develop 3D reconstructions as geospatial interfaces to structure and explore historical data of seventeenth-century Amsterdam. We take the reconstruction of the entrance hall of the house of the patrician Pieter de Graeff (1638–1707) as our case study and use it to illustrate the iterative process of knowledge creation, sharing, and discovery that unfolds while creating, exploring and experiencing the 3D models in a prototype research environment. During this work, an interdisciplinary dataset was collected, various metadata and paradata were created to document both the sources and the reasoning process, and rich contextual links were added. These data were used as the basis for creating a user interface for an online research environment, taking design principles and previous user studies into account. Knowledge is shared by visualizing the 3D reconstructions along with the related complexities and uncertainties, while the integration of various underlying data and Linked Data makes it possible to discover contextual knowledge by exploring associated resources. Moreover, we outline how users of the research environment can add annotations and rearrange objects in the scene, facilitating further knowledge discovery and creation.

House H10 was one of the buildings located in a Hellenistic-Roman city at the Marina el-Alamein site in Egypt, whose relics were the first to be discovered. Successive research, conducted since 1997 along with initial conservation work, has provided a comprehensive overview. The house is one of the largest and most extensive of this site. Its spatial design is a showcase for the technology typical of houses from Marina. The house is embedded in both Greco-Hellenic and Roman traditions. It is an oikos house with a courtyard with two columned porticoes situated symmetrically on either side parallel to the main axis. A third, perpendicular portico, complementing the layout of the incomplete peristyle, is imitated by the architectural decoration of the courtyard elevation, organised by semi-columns. The layout includes two main rooms located opposite each other on two sides of the peristyle. The house was rebuilt several times, which made for a complicated layout. The studies conducted have cast light on domestic religious practice and the distinctive character of the architectural and artistic interior design, including exceptional examples of figural painting. The architecture and décor of the house document the changes occurring at the intersection of Hellenistic and Roman traditions.

The social distancing of the Covid-19 pandemic challenged the performance of the home. A blurry tangle of states of minds was left on the dinner table when the spatial transitions between private and public activities suddenly disappeared. Myriads of formal and informal activities could be conducted from the same spot, often with the computer as tool. Today, most are back in physical facilities, but traces from the pandemic are left in the way of working. This project investigates the relationship between virtual space, physical objects, and the user in a domestic context. Rather than improving the home and its interior, the project suggests ways of working with the virtual from an architectural point of view. The space-investigating tools of the architect are used not to illustrate thought, but to constitute thought. By intersecting the findings on the virtual with the social act of the meal, the virtual is given a context and can thereby be understood from a phenomenological perspective. The meal remains central throughout the project as it enables spatial activation and creates tension between the virtual and the physical. The notions explored in the project are synthesised in The Blur Table: the border-less furniture.

Egyptian tower houses are a type of dwelling developed in the Third Intermediate Period in Egypt. They were extensively used in the time from the Late Period (26th Dynasty) until Roman times and were still in use through Late Antiquity, Medieval times until modern times. Many of these houses used the so called casemate foundations, a foundation type that was also used for other types of buildings. This article discusses typical elements, functions and chronological development of casemate structures and tower houses as well as known sources and possible reasons for their development.

Différents chercheurs ont récemment mis en évidence le développement du rôle structurel du bois dans l’architecture des seconds palais minoens. Ce postulat repose sur les traces d’armatures en bois observées dans les murs de palais (surtout à Cnossos) et de divers édifices monumentaux, en Crète ou à Akrotiri, ainsi que sur une meilleure compréhension des « halls minoens ». En analysant les vestiges architecturaux de deux bâtiments de la ville de Malia, nous avons souhaité vérifier si ces techniques d’assemblage du bois étaient mises en œuvre de façon homogène en contexte urbain. L’enquête menée dans les bâtiments Delta bêta et Pi montre que l’armature de bois n’y fut employée que de façon ponctuelle dans les murs, alors que les supports « libres » en bois sont plus fréquents : cela ne traduit donc pas l’adoption systématique d’une ossature de bois dans l’architecture domestique à Malia, où l’on ne peut par conséquent identifier une architecture anti-sismique reposant sur ce principe. L’usage structurel du bois semble davantage représenté dans les bâtiments d’architecture savante, reflétant l’importance du bois dans le nouveau langage architectural qui aurait pu être impulsé depuis Cnossos à partir du Minoen Moyen III. Several scholars have established that the use of wood as structural element in Minoan palatial architecture increased during the Neopalatial period. The voids corresponding to timber elements, intertwined with the role of wood in the “Minoan halls” of monumental buildings are now better understood. We investigated the traces of wood in the architecture of two buildings in the Minoan town of Malia in order to assess the widespread use of a timber frame in the masonry. Our study in two different types of houses shows that the reinforcement of walls by a timber system was limited to occasional needs, while the autonomous wooden supports are more frequent even in the more modest building. It is an indication that the Maliote builders didn’t develop systematic anti-seismic construction techniques based on wood. The uses of wood seem to concern predominantly the elite buildings, reflecting the importance of this material in the new architectural vocabulary which may have been driven from Knossos from the Middle Minoan III.

Orientadores: Leandro Silva Medrano, Doris Catharine Cornelie Knatz Kowaltowski Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo Resumo: As propostas urbanas de revitalização e habitação para a região central de São Paulo, apresentadas a partir dos anos 1990, enfatizaram a discussão de por que e para quem elas seriam realizadas. Termos como "cidade global", "gentrificação" e "segregação social" são frequentes nas pesquisas contemporâneas sobre o espaço urbano paulistano. Paralelamente, a indústria do vestuário, localizada nos distritos centrais Brás e Bom Retiro, é uma economia de aglomeração que emprega vasta mão-de-obra nas etapas de produção, muitas das quais ocorrem em oficinas localizadas no espaço doméstico. Esse fator é evidenciado pelas sucessivas ondas migratórias entre etnias que possuíam a confecção como característica comum. O objetivo da pesquisa é estudar aspectos arquitetônicos das habitações que vinculam o trabalho à moradia no cenário proposto e a sua inserção no ambiente urbano. A metodologia utiliza dados quantitativos, obtidos por meio da revisão bibliográfica, e dados qualitativos referentes à análise de nove estudos de caso. Analisa-se o cenário paulistano de acordo com os estudos desenvolvidos por Peter Kellett e Graham Tipple sobre na Índia, Bolívia, África do Sul e Indonésia. A partir dos resultados obtidos, apontam-se diretrizes na escala urbana e doméstica para a melhoria da qualidade de vida para uma população que atinge grande proporção, longe dos números oficiais utilizados em ações urbanas Abstract: This paper describes a study of home-based enterprises (HBEs). Spatial quality implications of these activities to the dwelling and the neighborhood are discussed. In face of international debates about the (re)qualification of central areas, this research aims to examine the effects of culture on informal income-generating activities. Culture has been adopted as a recent strategy of urban redevelopment in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, with emphasis on the downtown area. Many HBEs operate from home and their heritage is rooted in the manufacturing sector of women's apparel in the districts of Bom Retiro and Brás of the city of São Paulo. The garment industry in this area has offered work to various cultural backgrounds, from Jews to Koreans and Latin Americans during the last century. The so-called at home factories are very common in this downtown area, contributing to the city's economy and the vitality of the place, despite its conflicts with planning regulations. Nine cases studies located in São Paulo were devised to explore the importance of HBEs to household economies and to evaluate the spatial implications in the dwellings and impacts on neighborhood quality. Results show that conflicts exist between the two major activities: home and work. From these insights, recommendations are developed to improve the quality of life of home based workers and assist the (re)qualification of the central area of São Paulo Mestrado Arquitetura e Construção Mestre em Engenharia Civil

espanolDurante la segunda Edad del Hierro se construyen en Menorca unos edificios singulares conocidos como recintos de taula. La estructura central de estos espacios ha sido objeto de numerosas hipotesis a lo largo del siglo XX, destacando su interpretacion simbolica. Por el contrario, los espacios domesticos de la misma cronologia, con un elevado grado de estandarizacion, han sido estudiados sobre todo desde la vertiente funcional. En el presente trabajo se comparan los dos tipos de estructuras, planteando que ambas responden a una misma concepcion ideologica del espacio. A partir de esta comparativa, se propone que las taulas son representaciones monumentales del acceso a la habitacion norte de los espacios domesticos, simbolizando una entrada al espacio sagrado. El analisis estadistico de las proporciones de los elementos constitutivos de puertas y taulas, aunque no es concluyente, permite afirmar que existe una similitud arquitectonica entre ambos elementos. Finalmente, se plantea que el correlato entre casas y recintos de taula constituye un modo de legitimacion de las estructuras sociales por parte de las comunidades que construyeron estas estructuras. EnglishSingular buildings known as taula enclosures were built in Menorca in the second Iron Age. The central structure of these spaces has been the object of numerous hypotheses during the 20th century, most of them aiming at shedding light on its symbolic interpretation. On the contrary, domestic spaces, which were built in the same period and present a high level of standardisation, have been mostly studied on the aspect of their function. In this paper, the two types of structures are compared, suggesting that both respond to the same ideological conception of space. From this comparison, it is suggested that the taula is the monumental representation of the door that gives access to the northern room in domestic spaces, representing an entrance to the sacred space. The statistical analysis of the proportions of the constitutive elements of doors and taulas, despite not being conclusive, allows for stating that there is an architectural similarity between these two elements. Finally, it is suggested that the analogy between dwellings and taula enclosures constitutes a means of legitimation of the social structures by the communities who built them.

Singular buildings known as taula enclosures were built in Menorca in the second Iron Age. The central structure of these spaces has been the object of numerous hypotheses during the 20th century, most of them aiming at shedding light on its symbolic interpretation. On the contrary, domestic spaces, which were built in the same period and present a high level of standardisation, have been mostly studied on the aspect of their function. In this paper, the two types of structures are compared, suggesting that both respond to the same ideological conception of space. From this comparison, it is suggested that the taula is the monumental representation of the door that gives access to the northern room in domestic spaces, representing an entrance to the sacred space. The statistical analysis of the proportions of the constitutive elements of doors and taulas, despite not being conclusive, allows for stating that there is an architectural similarity between these two elements. Finally, it is suggested that the analogy between dwellings and taula enclosures constitutes a means of legitimation of the social structures by the communities who built them. Durante la segunda Edad del Hierro se construyen en Menorca unos edificios singulares conocidos como recintos de taula. La estructura central de estos espacios ha sido objeto de numerosas hipótesis a lo largo del siglo XX, destacando su interpretación simbólica. Por el contrario, los espacios domésticos de la misma cronología, con un elevado grado de estandarización, han sido estudiados sobre todo desde la vertiente funcional. En el presente trabajo se comparan los dos tipos de estructuras, planteando que ambas responden a una misma concepción ideológica del espacio. A partir de esta comparativa, se propone que las taulas son representaciones monumentales del acceso a la habitación norte de los espacios domésticos, simbolizando una entrada al espacio sagrado. El análisis estadístico de las proporciones de los elementos constitutivos de puertas y taulas, aunque no es concluyente, permite afirmar que existe una similitud arquitectónica entre ambos elementos. Finalmente, se plantea que el correlato entre casas y recintos de taula constituye un modo de legitimación de las estructuras sociales por parte de las comunidades que construyeron estas estructuras.

Màster Oficial en Estudis Avançats en Història de l'Art. Facultat de Geografia i Història de la UB. Curs: 2019-2020, Tutor: Rosa M. Creixell i Cabeza, La investigació té com a objecte d'estudi la casa pairal de la nissaga Papiol, coneguda com a Can Papiol (1790 - 1801). El recorregut que es proposa en la investigació parteix de l'estudi històric local per tal de contextualitzar l'edificació de la casa Papiol i la seva ocupació durant el segle XIX. Per entendre la rellevància que té la casa familiar i la família en el sistema de l'Antic Règim, és indispensable estudiar el llinatge dels Papiol. En aquest punt, cal fer especial referència al rígid sistema que estructura la família catalana des del segle XVI: el pairalisme, i com a resultat vertebrador del sistema, la casa pairal. Els interiors històrics i el mobiliari de la planta noble de Can Papiol són el principal objecte d'estudi i en el qual s'ha centrat gran part de la tesi. L'evolució dels usos de les cambres i el mobiliari d'aquestes articulen el discurs teòric de la investigació i l'anàlisi crítica de la disposició museística actual.

Se presenta una propuesta teórica-metodológica para la conceptualización de unidades de clasificación referidas a las áreas de actividad que puedan identificarse en asociación a unidades residenciales prehispánicas de los Andes Centrales1, como resultado del análisis formal y funcional de un muestreo representativo de reportes arqueológicos.La definición conceptual de la unidad residencial se complementa con la caracterización de otras categorías, permitiendo así la descripción de contextos de áreas de actividad en su interior (incluyendo la unidad doméstica); lo cual permitirá acrecentar el contenido de las inferencias entorno a las relaciones sociales de producción económica y reproducción biológica de aquellos grupos sociales que se desarrollaron en las diferentes regiones naturales de los Andes Centrales., Summary a theoretical-methodological proposal for conceptualizing classification units referred to areas of activity that can be identified in association with prehispanic residential units of the Central Andes, as a result of formal and functional analysis of a representative sample of archaeological reports presented.The conceptual definition of the residential unit is complemented by the characterization of other categories, allowing the description of contexts of activity areas inside (including the household); which allow to increase the content of environment inferences social relations of economic production and biological reproduction of those social groups that developed in the different natural regions of the Central Andes.

In the first century AD, following a period of expansion and conquest that stretched the bounds of its territory to the edges of the known world, the Roman Empire had grown to encompass the frontiers of the Roman northwest, a region which would come to be known as three separate provinces: Gaul, Germania, and the island of Britannia. These areas, at the edge of the Roman world, contained their own populations, replete with distinct cultures, architecture, and ways of life distinct from the cosmopolitan Mediterranean world of their Roman conquerors. Over the course of decades and centuries, indigenous ways of life adapted to and incorporated the advances and technological innovations brought by the Latin invaders. The phenomenon of this cultural change, long referred to by scholars as “Romanization,” is manifest in the archaeological record. Nowhere is this truer than in the architectural remains of the domestic spaces occupied by these provincial inhabitants of the Roman Empire, traditionally grouped together under the umbrella term of “Celts.” Employing a methodology grounded in network theory, the present study applies space syntax analysis to the architectural plans of over 350 domestic sites from the Roman northwest. The goal is to search for evidence of consistent patterns to the use and arrangement of space, and to follow those patterns to discern if there is detectable change over time and geographic space. From that data, the Romanization model, now over a century old, is put to the test. The layouts of these domestic structures, which appear outwardly Roman in their architecture, yet distinct from Roman houses elsewhere in the Empire, contain a missing piece of information regarding the nature of how these citizens northerly citizens of the Roman Empire adapted and negotiated their place in the larger Roman world.

Este artículo tiene como objetivo visibilizar las áreas de servicio, producción y almacenaje de los ambientes domésticos romanos encontrados en el territorio valenciano. Estos espacios, tradicionalmente marginados por la historiografía, fueron de vital importancia en el funcionamiento de la casa, desde aspectos como la subsistencia básica hasta actividades de representación ligadas al acto del banquete. Se realiza una propuesta metodológica de identificación de estos espacios a través de estructuras fijas funcionales, técnicas y materiales constructivos, y presencia de cultura material mueble., The aim of this article is to make visible the service, production and storage areas of the Romandomestic spaces found in the Valencian territory. These environments, traditionally marginalized by historiography, were essential in the running of the household, from activities of basic subsistenceto the rituals of representation linked to the act of the banquet. We will present a methodological proposal to identify large service areas, kitchen and production spaces through fixed functional structures, techniques and construction materials.

This paper employs new phytolith evidence to consider how Early Epipaleolithic people at the site of Kharaneh IV (Azraq Basin, Jordan) used local plant resources to construct their huts, and furnish their indoor space. Forty-five sediment samples from Structure 1 were compared to previously published results (10 sediment samples) from the well-preserved site of Ohalo II (Hut 1) (adjacent to Sea of Galilee, Israel). Our results demonstrate that similar plant resources were employed in both sites’ hut constructions, including the heavy use of wetland sedge and reed resources. Interpreting the extensive use of wetland resources in hut construction at Kharaneh IV required the use of new ethnographic analogs focused on wetland-based adaptations, such as Northern Paiute ‘tule technology’ from the American Great Basin. The phytolith evidence shows that woody and shrubby dicots were employed, likely to construct the hut frame. Phragmites culm may also have been used to frame the structure. While a variety of grasses, wetland reeds, and importantly sedge resources, were used as part of the hut superstructure, perhaps as bundled thatching to cover the frame. In the interior these resources were employed as a loose floor covering or matting to increase the comfort of the living space. Our broader findings emphasize that Early Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherers were increasingly investing in ‘place’. Indeed, the construction of these early homes may even have enhanced the ecological productivity and social meaning of the Azraq Landscape.

The present work approaches the presence of subterranean rooms in the Roman houses. These rooms were destined principally to support the high temperatures of summer in the Mediterranean regions, although sometime they also got to be used like storage places. When being about chambers whose use was destined fundamentally to the rest of dominus and their family during the summer, we have preferred to denominate then like aestiva loca as in the classical sources. Recent publications about domestic Roman architecture in Iberian Peninsula just mentioned the existence of these rooms. Here we presented a catalogue of them since the majority of them changed over the years of functionality, reason why its identification becomes very complex. We have identified two groups. One of them seems to be quite similar to Italian and north African subterranean rooms. The other group, in the eastern Central Plateau, could be simple basements. El presente trabajo aborda la presencia de estancias subterráneas en las viviendas romanas. Estas habitaciones estuvieron destinadas, en la mayoría de los casos, a soportar los rigores estivales en las regiones mediterráneas, aunque en ocasiones también llegaron a emplearse como lugares de almacenaje. Al tratarse de aposentos cuyo uso estaba destinado, primordialmente, al descanso del dominus y de su familia durante el verano, hemos preferido denominarlas como aestiva loca, tal y como se mencionan en las fuentes clásicas. En los trabajos sobre arquitectura doméstica hispanorromana estas habitaciones han pasado prácticamente desapercibidas, salvo en contadas excepciones. Aquí presentamos un catálogo de las estancias que hasta el momento hemos podido reconocer, dado que la mayoría de ellas cambió de funcionalidad con el paso del tiempo, por lo que su identificación se hace muy compleja. Hemos podido identificar dos grupos, uno de ellos muy semejante a los loca aestiva del Norte de África o Italia, y otro, concentrado al este de la submeseta norte. Estos últimos podrían ser simples sótanos.

[EN] This study is based on historical documents belonging to the most important ecclesiastical institution in Seville during the 16th century. The Cathedral’s archives have been consulted, with special focus on the section devoted to books of written descriptive records of houses (called ‘apeos’) that belonged to the Cabildo (Chapter) in 1542. These records not only documented the physical distribution of the houses with measurements in Castilian yards of the different parts of the house, but also described the more qualitative features of the interior architectural design. The main purpose of this study is to characterize the typical Sevillian houses from historical documents of the period focused on the collation of San Salvador. By way of a novel methodology, the following steps have been developed: first, an architectural analysis; second, a typology of houses based on functions, dimensions, construction, lay-out, etc.; third, a detailed glossary of architectural terms listed to permit a rigorous understanding of the domestic architecture in 16th century Seville; and finally, an example of every documented record has been drawn. Among the most significant conclusions is that the Sevillian dwellings of that period reflected the Islamic terminology, architecture, construction and lay-out typical of Andalusia, but with distinctive features of Sevillian housing., [ES] Este artículo sobre la arquitectura doméstica sevillana está basado en documentos históricos de las instituciones eclesiásticas más importantes de Sevilla en el siglo XVI, específicamente los libros de apeos de casas del Cabildo de 1542 del archivo Catedral de Sevilla. Estas fuentes no solo documentan la distribución espacial en varas castellanas sino también describen las características constructivas y dotaciones del interior de estas. El principal objetivo de este trabajo ha sido caracterizar el tipo de casa sevillana a partir de estos documentos históricos referidos a 46 casas de la céntrica collación de San Salvador. A partir de una metodología novedosa, en primer lugar, se ha realizado un análisis arquitectónico; en segundo lugar, se han establecido tipologías de espacios, usos, dimensiones, construcción, acabados, etc.; en tercer lugar, se ha elaborado un glosario de términos arquitectónicos propios de los alarifes que permite entender de manera rigurosa la arquitectura doméstica en Sevilla en el siglo de Oro; y, por último, se han incluido dibujos de cada apeo documentado para facilitar la caracterización del tipo de casa sevillana del siglo XVI. Entre las conclusiones a las que se han llegado destaca que las viviendas de este periodo conservan una terminología, arquitectura, construcción y acabados típicos de la Andalucía islámica, pero con características específicas del caserío sevillano, como por ejemplo la casapuerta.

L’habitat urbain du Proche-Orient protobyzantin se distingue dans le domaine archéologique par une architecture domestique principalement monumentale. Le luxe et le caractère ostentatoire affichés des résidences, ont amené les archéologues à les assigner à une élite urbaine. L’état de conservation parfois surprenant des vestiges, a permis de relever de nombreuses caractéristiques susceptibles de qualifier chacune des époques, notamment lorsqu’il était possible de dresser une chronologie suffisamment précise pour isoler certaines transformations, au gré des réfections et des travaux qui se sont déroulés tout au long de la longue existence de ces demeures.Pendant la période protobyzantine, l’architecture domestique évolue, rompant avec son organisation initiale. En effet, les puissants n’hésitèrent pas à se confronter aux anciens plans de leurs demeures et à les repenser afin qu’ils correspondent davantage à de nouveaux besoins, stimulés par le fait d’amener dans la sphère privée des prérogatives initialement attachées à la sphère publique. Les transformations ont été jugées, tantôt en des termes de continuité ou d’évolution : tel le maintien de certaines composantes antiques au sein des phases les plus tardives ; tantôt en des termes plus dépréciatifs : synonymes de régression. En peu de mots de causer l’aliénation de l’héritage gréco-romain, quitte à négliger les éléments constitutifs de l’époque protobyzantine, qui fut même qualifiée de période de transition entre l’Antiquité et le Moyen-Age. Toutefois, il semble qu’aucun archéologue n’ait encore envisagé ces transformations en termes de révolution. Révolution au sens que les profondes mutations appartenant à l’Antiquité tardive imposaient de s’affranchir du carcan traditionnel imposé par la culture hellénistique, gréco-romaine et même indigène. Là, semble se terrer quelques innovations propres à cette période, terreau d’une véritable révolution : révolution des lieux du pouvoir, de son expression, tant dans son architecture que dans son exercice, à l’instar du développement des salles triconques dans les maisons attribuées aux « élites ». Urban habitat of the Early Byzantine period is distinguishable in archaeological domain by an essentially monumental domestic architecture. The luxury and ostentatious features of residences, brought archaeologists to attribute them to an urban elite. The sometimes surprising state of the conservation of the remains, has identified many characteristics that could qualify each era, especially when it was possible to provide a sufficiently precise chronology to isolate certain transformations, according to the repairs and work that took place throughout the long existence of these houses.In the Early Byzantine era domestic architecture evolves, breaking its initial organization, to meet the convenience of its occupants. Indeed, the powerful did not hesitate to confront the old plans of their houses and redesign them so that they were more relevant to new needs, stimulated by the bringing into the private sphere the prerogatives attached initially to the public sphere.The transformations were sometimes found to be continuous and evolutionary as they maintained certain ancient components in the later stages ; sometimes, in the most disparaging terms, they were synonymous with regression. In short, they caused alienation of the greco-roman heritage, whilst neglecting elements of the Early Byzantine period, which was called a transition period between Antiquity and the Middle Ages.However, it seems that no archaeologist has yet considered these changes in terms of revolution. Revolution in the sense that the profound changes belonging to late antiquity imposed to overcome the traditional constraints by Hellenistic, Greco-Roman and even indigenous culture.To be discovered it seems are innovations specific to this period, which were a breeding ground of revolution : a revolution of the places and expression of power, both in architecture and in how power was exercised, as in the development of the facilities in triconch rooms assigned to the “elite”.

Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century cross-cuts the ranks of important books on social history, consumerism, contemporary culture, the meaning of material culture, domestic architecture, and household ethnoarchaeology. Far richer in information and more incisive than America at Home (Smolan and Erwitt), this innovative book also moves well beyond Rick Smolan's Day in the Life series. It is a distant cousin of Material World and Hungry Planet in content and style, but represents a blend of rigorous science and photography that none of these titles can claim. The authors are widely published scholars--archaeologists and anthropologists from UCLA--and a world-renowned photographer. Using archaeological approaches to human material culture, this volume offers unprecedented access to the middle-class American home through the kaleidoscopic lens of no-limits photography and many kinds of never-before acquired data about how people actually live their lives at home. Its foundation is a meticulous, 10-year study of 32 ordinary Californian middle-class families. Extensive media coverage shows it has strong appeal not only to scientists but also to the book-buying public, people who share intense curiosity about what goes on at home in their neighborhoods. Many who read the book will see their own lives mirrored in these pages and can reflect on how other people cope with their mountains of possessions and other daily challenges. Readers abroad will be equally fascinated by the contrasts between their own kinds of materialism and the typical American experience, as a sample of Italians' and Swedes' responses to the photographs and findings have demonstrated. The book will interest a range of designers, builders, and architects as well as scholars and students who research various facets of U.S. and global consumerism, cultural history, and economic history.

The text analyzes the transformations of domestic architecture in the central sector of the Duero river basin during the transition between the early and middle phases of the Early Iron Age Soto facies. These are connected with the political changes developed in self-sufficient communities structured under the Domestic Mode of Production. The new political framework entails disruptions in which relations of production based on symmetric exchanges are replaced by competitive ones based in asymmetric exchanges. The relationship of the latter to alliances established with foreign communities and the contribution that the ideas and exotic materials derived from these external relations had in the transformation process is considered. El texto analiza las trasformaciones de la arquitectura doméstica durante el tránsito entre la Fase Inicial y Plena de la Facies Soto, I-Edad del Hierro en el sector central de la cuenca del Duero. Se conectan tales modificaciones con los cambios políticos desarrollados en comunidades autosuficientes estructuradas bajo el Modo de producción doméstico. El nuevo marco político conlleva trastornos en las relaciones de reproducción social basadas en intercambios simétricos, sustituidas por otras de carácter competitivo y en intercambios asimétricos. Se examina la relación de estos últimos con alianzas establecidas con comunidades foráneas y la contribución al proceso de transformación que tienen las ideas y los materiales exóticos procedentes de las relaciones externas.

Tesis-Universidad CEU San Pablo, Escuela Politécnica Superior Arquitectura, Departamento de Arquitectura y Diseño, lectura 16 de junio de 2017 Contiene: 3 tomos en 1 vol. : Apéndices (tomo 2), Cuaderno de fotografía (tomo 3) En este trabajo se propone investigar un ejemplo concreto de espacio habitable: la vivienda de emergencia en el campo de refugiados. Se parte de la idea de que la forma arquitectónica implica no sólo un artefacto construido, sino que éste es inseparable tanto del contexto espacio-temporal en que se inscribe como del habitante que lo utiliza. Con estos tres parámetros (artefacto, cronotopo y habitante) se acota el objeto de estudio presentado en el título: la pieza es la vivienda; el tiempo es el de la emergencia; el lugar, el campo; y el habitante, el refugiado. La mirada al proceso de concreción de la vivienda de emergencia se estructura en tres etapas a lo largo de la tesis, cada una de ellas con una metodología adecuada, sobre la hipótesis de que hay toda una serie de contradicciones en este proceso de habitar que es preciso revelar y solucionar. En la primera etapa, se sientan las bases de lo necesario. Las recomendaciones, que no las normativas, de los manuales de actuación en casos de emergencia de las agencias humanitarias y, más en concreto, los manuales de UNHCR de 2007 y 2016 establecen la prefiguración. El propósito es mostrar la primera contradicción: que los manuales de emergencia son, en realidad, palabras sin instrucciones sobre el refugio. La segunda fase, la configuración, incluye la formalización de los campos levantados y de las tiendas estandarizadas, es decir, se observa lo construido y se desvela una segunda contradicción: que el lugar y la seriación conducen a lo que se llama «la tienda-dormitorio». Para esta parte, se toman como casos los campos de Hilaweyn, Al-Zaatari y Ubayidi y la UNHCR Family Tent. En último lugar, tras la visita a los campos de La Jungla y La Linière en Francia, se analiza la refiguración y se muestran y clasifican las transformaciones significantes que los refugiados introducen en la vivienda. Aquí la contradicción radica en que el habitante se ve incapaz de transformar un «domicilio del extranjero» de permanencia indefinida. Finalmente, se concluye que es preciso no limitar el habitar del refugiado al humanitarismo sino que se debe también insertar en el quehacer arquitectónico.

In 1753 the Jesuit priest Marc-Antonie Laugier’s published Essai sur l’architecture (Essays on Architecture) a small philosophical text where he introduced the fundamentals of authentic architecture. Laugier recognised the gap between that which the natural world provides and the additional needs and features we must embrace to produce usable shelter. The general principles of architecture can be understood through the story of the ‘rustic hut’, suggesting that from our primal needs we have developed systems to create buildings. Our buildings are significant as they show an authentic account of who we are, how we see ourselves and how others see us. Buildings take the form of the clothes we wrap our families, pets and possessions within; they speak of culture, environment, history, struggles, triumphs and tragedies. Our domestic architecture in North Queensland is a living history of our relationships to materials, design, skills, technology, attitudes to houses and homes, rules and regulations, development, aesthetics, marketing and innovation.

In 1920s and 1930s California, a new architectural style emerged with exaggerated, whimsical, or theatrical qualities, evocative of medieval Europe. It appeared most often in houses or bungalow courts. Historians in the 1970s described this architecture as “dollhouse” or “Hansel and Gretel.” More recently, authors use the term Storybook Style, likely because writers often used storybook and fairytale references to explain the architecture. In the midst of California bungalows and Spanish Colonial Revival buildings this is an odd occurrence. This thesis is an examination of the two decades of architectural production in California during which this previously understudied architectural phenomenon emerged. Two million Americans migrated to California in the decade of the 1920s. As a result of new money and new opportunity, the state rapidly developed. Concurrently, with the rise of the film industry, there was increasing creativity in design through the intermingling of set designers and architects, and greater exposure to other countries, cultures, and worlds through films. There was also increased and improved production of children’s books, especially fairy tales, featuring highly imaginative designs. The architecture suggested a desire to return to the world of the child and created a romantic atmosphere. This thesis will argue that this so-called storybook architecture materialized as a specific product of the California context, though the particular attributes of the style do not readily indicate California. Chapter One examines California in the 1920s and proposes that storybook architecture offered a third alternative to the prevailing trends of Spanish Colonial Revival and Modernism. Chapter Two investigates the advent of the film industry in Los Angeles and its impact on the development of this architectural tradition. Chapter Three explores the simultaneous development of storybook architecture in San Francisco, the impact of children’s book illustrations on the architecture of Carmel, and the other key designers in the area. Chapter Four will address the perpetuation of storybook elements through Dixon plans and advertisements. Thus, it was the confluence of events and ideas in California that gave this type of revival architecture a strong footing, resulting in the largest collection of storybook architecture in this state alone.

International audience; Through a detailed examination of a sample from both towns, this paper presents a joint study of houses in Rome and Ostia in the 2nd c. AD. Taking into account the plan, circulation axes, architectural structures and decoration, the type of analysis performed here has been frequently conducted on houses from the Vesuvian cities but rarely on later periods. By applying it to 2nd c. AD domestic space, we wish to shed a light on the evolution of spatial organisation and its socio-economic implication during this period. We focus on high-status buildings, regardless of the type of housing. In doing so, the aim is twofold: first, to question the contrast between domus and insula; second, to investigate how the 2nd c. élites conceived and inhabited their houses in the heart of the Roman Empire.; Cet article propose une étude conjointe des contextes domestiques de Rome et d’Ostie, au IIe s. ap. J.-C., à travers l’examen détaillé d’une série d’édifices des deux villes. Ce type d’analyse, qui prend en compte à la fois le plan, les circulations, les structures et le décor, a été mené sur les contextes vésuviens de la fin de la République et du début de l’Empire, mais n’a guère été développé pour les périodes postérieures. En l’appliquant ici à l’espace domestique du IIe s. ap. J.-C., nous espérons mettre en lumière pour cette période l’évolution de l’organisation spatiale des maisons et ses enjeux socio-économiques. L’enquête se concentre sur les édifices d’un niveau socio-économique élevé, quelle que soit la typologie de l’habitat. L’objectif est ainsi de réfléchir à la signification de l’opposition domus / insula, tout en affinant notre compréhension des modes d’habiter de l’élite du IIe s. au cœur de l’Empire.

[spa] A partir de las tramas más públicas de la cotidianidad, así como de las prácticas más particulares de aquello público, la aristocracia catalana del siglo XVIII perfiló como el resto de Europa nuevas maneras de mostrarse y presentarse al mundo. La creación de una máscara lujosa tuvo en la ornamentación de las arquitecturas habitadas el marco adecuado para construir una escenografía perfecta. Arquitecturas particulares, percibidas siempre como espacios ocupados en constante evolución, como reflejo de personalidades, gustos y modas de una época determinada, como escenarios poliédricos de acciones, deberes, deseos y funciones, en definitiva como "obra compuesta". Imágenes de ornato y atrezzo, donde vestir el cuerpo, descubrir los tempos en el ejercicio de las relaciones y pasearse por los espacios amueblados configuran los verdaderos vertebradores de una correcta geografía del habitar. [eng] Building on the most public aspects of daily life, as well as on the most private practices in the public arena, the 18th-century catalan aristocracy, like that of the rest of Europe, shaped new ways of showing itself and presenting itself to the world. The creation of a lavish masque had in the arrangement of inhabited architectures the ideal circumstances to build a perfect stage set. Private architectures, always perceived as constantly-evolving occupied spaces, as a reflection of the personalities, tastes and fashions of a particular period, as multifaceted scenarios for actions, duties, desires and functions: in short a ―composed work‖. Images of ornato and atrezzo, where dressing the body, discovering tempos in the exercise of relations and strolling through furnished spaces are the backbone of an accomplished geography of inhabitation.

espanolEste trabajo tiene por objetivo realizar una aproximacion al estudio de los espacios domesticos durante el periodo Postalayotico (550-123 ANE) en las Islas Baleares como medio para entender y analizar los grupos domesticos que constituian estas sociedades insulares. Para ello, se trazara la metodologia seguida y las hipotesis de partida, finalizando con una hipotesis preliminar sobre la existencia de un modelo domestico caracteristico de estos momentos. EnglishThis paper aims to make an approach to the study of domestic space during the Postalayotic period (550-123 ANE) in the Balearic Islands as a means to understand and analyze domestic groups constituting these island societies. To do this, the methodology and assumptions will be drawn starting, ending with a preliminary hypothesis on the existence of a domestic model.

Estamos asistiendo a una progresiva democratización del aprendizaje y diseño en arquitectura cuando ésta se entiende como una ecología, esto es, una ciencia de relaciones. Para abordar este objetivo, algunas prácticas docentes de la Escuela de Alicante analizan gráficamente proyectos ejemplares de escala doméstica o aprenden a aplicar métodos de diseño consensuados con los habitantes a quienes van destinados: el primero toma la forma de prácticas de dibujo desde un balbuceo hasta un cierto nivel de calidad digital, deconstruyendo las versiones de machiyas japonesas realizadas por Atelier Bow-Wow; el segundo, inspirado en cómo se ha producido la toma de decisiones consensuada para los proyectos de ciudad fábrica y de la Mémé Medicale de Lucien y Simone Kroll, produce proyectos de transformación de viviendas en el entorno de Alicante. En ambos casos, trabajando indirectamente las competencias transversales propuestas para su aprendizaje. We are involved in a democratization of learning and designing in Architecture once it’s considered an ecology, that is a science of relations. In order to approach to this goal, some emergent workshops in Alicante University select study cases of domestic scaled relevant projects or learn how to apply co-design methods: the first one follows the methodology of drawing lessons from a zero level to a certain quality in the results of decomposing some machiya Japanese houses designed by Atelier Bow-Wow; the second one, inspired in how public design decisions were taken for the cite-usine project and the Mémé Medicale by Lucien and Simone Kroll, end up producing refurbishments of dwelling in Alicante neighbourhoods. In both cases, the methodologies included the workout of transversal key competences.

This study is based on historical documents belonging to the most important ecclesiastical institution in Seville during the 16th century. The Cathedral’s archives have been consulted, with special focus on the section devoted to books of written descriptive records of houses (called ‘apeos’) that belonged to the Cabildo (Chapter) in 1542. These records not only documented the physical distribution of the houses with measurements in Castilian yards of the different parts of the house, but also described the more qualitative features of the interior architectural design. The main purpose of this study is to characterize the typical Sevillian houses from historical documents of the period focused on the collation of San Salvador. By way of a novel methodology, the following steps have been developed: first, an architectural analysis; second, a typology of houses based on functions, dimensions, construction, lay-out, etc.; third, a detailed glossary of architectural terms listed to permit a rigorous understanding of the domestic architecture in 16th century Seville; and finally, an example of every documented record has been drawn. Among the most significant conclusions is that the Sevillian dwellings of that period reflected the Islamic terminology, architecture, construction and lay-out typical of Andalusia, but with distinctive features of Sevillian housing.

Trabajo de fin de Grado. Grado en Arquitectura Técnica. Curso académico 201/2015, [ES]Se estudia los palomares tradicionales, que, de manera exhaustiva, parte de un recorrido histórico sobre la producción y explotación de la paloma, la aparición de un tipo de construcción dentro de la arquitectura popular hasta las diversas tipologías, y se detiene en un análisis pormenorizado en la provincia de Zamora., [EN] The traditional dovecotes are studied, which, exhaustively, starts from a historical journey about the production and exploitation of the pigeon, the appearance of a type of construction within popular architecture up to the different typologies, and stops at a detailed analysis in the province of Zamora.

En el presente trabajo se presentan los resultados preliminares de una intervención arqueológica preventiva llevada a cabo muy recientemente en el área urbana de Alcalá del Río, antigua Ilipa. La excavación, a pesar de ser limitada en extensión, ha permitido contextualizar los ambientes domésticos propios de un mosaico conocido ya de antiguo. De esta forma, lo que era un dato aislado cobra así sentido, sumándose al actual y creciente conocimiento de la ciudad romana, proporcionando nuevos y valiosos datos sobre aspectos urbanísticos, tecnológicos, constructivos o socioeconómicos, entre otros. Preliminary results of a preventive archaeological intervention carried out recently in the urban area of Alcalá del Rio, former Ilipa, are presented in this paper. The excavation, despite being of limited surface, has allowed characterizing the domestic contexts related to a mosaic that was already known more than two decades ago. In this way an isolate item starts to be meaningful and the new information increases the current and growing knowledge of the Roman city, providing valuable new data on urban, technological, constructive or socioeconomic aspects, among others.

L’articolo contiene un riesame delle fasi della fine del II e del III secolo di due ricche case tardo-antiche ostiensi : le domus delle Colonne e dei Pesci. Sotto la Domus dei Pesci vi era un edificio di età flavia, di cui solo un muro è stato messo in luce nel corso di uno scavo del 1995-96. Nell’età di Commodo sembra che, dove ora c’è la Domus delle Colonne, vi fosse un edificio a carattere commerciale, o forse un ufficio. L’ipotesi è che nella prima metà del III secolo un nuovo proprietario abbia comprato i terreni e costruito, o trasformato, i due fabbricati, ora uniti da un muro ; gli edifici acquistarono allora una funzione abitativa. Soprattutto la pianta della Domus dei Pesci presenta caratteri innovativi rispetto alle altre residenze eleganti dell’epoca e si può supporre che vi fossero, al suo interno, percorsi differenziati per il dominus, i clientes e gli schiavi. The paper contains a re-examination of two rich houses of Late Roman Ostia, the domus of the Columns and of the Fishes (phases of late second and third century). Under the latter there was a Flavian building, that is at present known only from a wall, put in light during an excavation of 1995-96. In the age of Commodus it seems that, where now there is the Domus of the Columns, there was a bulding with a commercial function, or perhaps an office. The hypothesis is that in the first halfth of the third century a new owner bought the soils and built, or transformed, the two structures, now united by a wall ; the new buildings had a residential functions. The plan of the Domus of the Fishes shows innovating features in comparison to other luxury houses of the same period, and perhaps were foreseen different courses for the dominus, the clientes and the slaves.

This thesis will consider the role domestic architecture played in the negotiation of identity, class, and culture in Shanghai. By building upon the work in the field of critical studies the images, symbols, and metaphors of domestic architecture can be explored. In turn, Shanghai villas built between in 1920’s and 1930’s provide case studies that can be deconstructed as text. The visual understanding of domestic spaces that responded to varied ideas about culture, class, and identity lay rooted as much in an easily translatable visual and stylistic vocabulary as in the willingness of the viewer to accept the interpretation laid before them.

Treballs Finals de Grau d'Història de l'Art, Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de Barcelona, Curs: 2013-2014, Tutor: Pere Beseran i Ramon, La cultura rural està en procés de desaparèixer en pro de la modernització, i amb ella les seves estructures entre les que hi ha l'arquitectura de caràcter més popular. Com veurem, aquesta arquitectura és una senya de identitat d'un territori, la qual és tan representativa com la llengua, la història, els símbols o les tradicions populars. Aquest patrimoni arquitectònic sovint és deixat de banda pels estudiosos, ja que les seves investigacions acostumen a centrar-se en l'arquitectura de caràcter monumental. Però en un moment en que moltes de les nostres senyes, que ens identifiquen com a poble, es veuen amenaçades pel que alguns anomenen progrés, és necessària la seva preservació i en conseqüència el seu coneixement. A Mallorca existeix un tipus de casa clarament dominant de la qual es troben abundants mostres repartides per tota l'illa. Es tracta de les cases de possessió, unes edificacions de residència unifamiliar que estan vinculades a unes terres d'explotació agrícola. En la seva configuració arquitectònica impera l'ordre geomètric la qual cosa es veu manifestat en planta, en el seu volum i en la distribució de les obertures. Així, és una idea d'edificació eminentment sòbria, contundent i amb una netedat clara de volum. Per tant, aquests conjunts d'edifici domèstic aïllat i vinculat a unes terres el podríem definir com l'equivalent a la masia catalana o al lloc menorquí, per exemple. Ens centrarem en el cas de Mallorca ja que no podem parlar d'un arquitectura popular comú a totes les illes, són diversos i en general molt diferents els tipus que trobem en aquestes. És a dir, no existeix un tipus d'arquitectura domèstica tradicional que sigui comú a Mallorca, Menorca i Eivissa, ni tans sols a dues d'elles...

Este artículo analiza las características arquitectónicas de las casas urbanas de la «neapolis» de Ampurias, el asentamiento griego de la ciudad. La particularidad histórica de esta población al noreste de la península ibérica ofrece la oportunidad de estudiar un urbanismo con muchas influencias culturales. Esta riqueza es muy evidente en su arquitectura doméstica, donde se puede examinar cómo una población de origen griego adaptó en sus paredes privadas, nuevos esquemas romanos. En los restos arqueológicos de Emporion, también se observa el resultado del contacto y la convivencia de esta sociedad con el mundo autóctono a lo largo de los siglos, así como la relación con otras culturas mediterráneas. En resumen, el estudio de la arquitectura doméstica de la «Neapolis» de Ampurias nos muestra una casa específica de un momento y un lugar con unos condicionantes históricos muy concretos. This article analyses the architectural features of urban houses in the «neapolis» of Empúries, the Greek settlement of the city. The historical uniqueness of this city in the northeastern side of the Iberian Peninsula gives a unique opportunity to study an type of urbanism with many different cultural influences. This richness is obvious in its domestic architecture, where people of Greek origin adapted new Roman planning schemes for their private houses. In the archaeological remains of Emporion we can also see the result of the contact and coexistence of this Greek population with native societies and other Mediterranean cultures over the centuries. In short, the analysis of the domestic architecture in the «neapolis» of Empúries shows a type of house at a specific moment in time, and in a place with very particular historical factors.

[FR] Dans la vaste enceinte urbaine de la ville de Grenade actuellement appelée quartier de l'Albaicín, subsiste un ensemble important de plus de quatre-vingt maisons d'origine morisque qui constituent un patrimoine de grande valeur historique, architectonique, archéologique, urbaine et culturelle. Malheureusement, beaucoup d'entre-elles présentent encore un état de conservation précaire bien que ce quartier soit inclus dans la liste du Patrimoine Mondial de l'UNESCO depuis 1994, comme extension du périmètre protégé de l'ensemble monumental de l'Alhambra et du Generalife, déclaré dix années auparavant.

Proyecto Fin de Carrera-Universidad de Salamanca, Escuela Politécnica Superior de Zamora, 2012, [ES] El objeto del proyecto es la correcta descripción y definición de las características estructurales y técnicas de la vivienda construida entre medianeras, reseñada en la revista Tectónica, nº 9, y la revista Espacio Doméstico, nº 69, sobre la vivienda construida entre medianeras en Colonia, Alemania, y compuesta por dos volúmenes con título "Legal-Ilegal", planteando la redacción del presente estudio constructivo., [EN] The object of the project is the correct description and definition of the structural characteristics and techniques of housing built between medians, outlined in the journal Tectonics, No. 9, and the magazine Domestic Space, No. 69 on the housing built between medians in Cologne, Germany, and consists of two volumes titled "Legal-Illegal", raising the writing of this study constructive.

While recurrently cited in the specialized bibliography, until recent years Castellet de Banyoles was only really known by the findings of monetary hoards and some luxury ritual vases, in addition to the Hellenistic-type pentagonal towers flanking the site entrance. Excavation work since 1998 has enabled precise dating of the first settlement between the last third of the 3rd century BC and early 2nd century BC, and has revealed the existence at that time of a Punic-type compartments wall, as well as an extensive dwelling area, which probably corresponds to a specific gens. Houses of different types and sizes are attested, as well as a possible sanctuary. With an area of 4.5 ha, Castellet de Banyoles is a small city that brought together the entire population of the Mora basin, following a mononuclear model unprecedented in the northern Iberian world. This is likely explained by strategic reasons in a turbulent historical context due to the Barcid expansion in the Iberian Peninsula and the Second Punic War., Aunque es un yacimiento recurrentemente mencionado en la bibliografía especializada, hasta hace pocos años el Castellet de Banyoles sólo era realmente conocido por los hallazgos monetarios y de elementos suntuarios de carácter ritual, a parte de las torres pentagonales de tipo helenístico que flanquean su puerta. Los trabajos realizados desde 1998 han permitido precisar la datación del primer asentamiento entre el último tercio del siglo III a.C. y principios del II a.C., y han mostrado la existencia en ese momento de una muralla de compartimentos de tipo púnico. También han traído a luz un extenso sector de hábitat —que probablemente corresponde a un grupo gentilicio—, con casas de distintos tipos y tamaños, y un posible santuario. Con una superficie de 4,5 ha, se trata de una pequeña ciudad que agrupaba toda la población de la hoya de Móra, siguiendo un modelo mononuclear inédito en el mundo ibérico septentrional, y que tal vez se explique por razones estratégicas en un contexto histórico convulso a causa de la expansión bárquida y la segunda guerra púnica.

Este trabajo está dedicado al estudio de la arquitectura doméstica de los yacimientos del valle del Habur (Siria), durante el periodo que va desde el Neolítico hasta el segundo milenio a.C. Basándonos en la información de los registros arqueológicos de los asentamientos hemos podido observar en la arquitectura de las construcciones domésticas un empleo sistemático del ladrillo “crudo”, así como una gran homogeneidad en la forma, dimensiones y distribución espacial de las casas, durante todo el período estudiado. Nos encontramos con pequeñas construcciones rectangulares en su gran mayoría, con tres o cuatro habitaciones, más una habitación central que sirve para organizar la circulación interior. La entrada a las casas es estrecha, y se encuentran en su interior hornos, hogares, estructuras de almacenaje y bancos adosados a la pared, lo que nos indica una doble utilización del espacio, como vivienda y lugar de trabajo. El análisis de los datos de que disponemos sugiere una uniformidad arquitectónica en este periodo en el que se sitúa el origen de la sedentarización y el urbanismo., The aim of this thesis is to the study the domestic architecture of the sites located in the Khabur Valley (Syria), during the period between the Neolithic and the second millennium b.C. According to the information found in the archaeological reports of the sites, we can observe a systematic use of the mud brick in the architecture of the domestic constructions, as well as a great homogeneity in the shape, dimensions and spatial distribution of the houses, during the whole period considered. We find mostly small rectangular constructions, with three or four rooms, plus a central room used to organize the internal circulation. The entrance to the houses is narrow, and inside we find ovens, fireplaces and associated structures, which indicates a double use of the interior space, as a house and a work place. The analysis of the data suggests an architectonic uniformity during this period when the origin of the sedentarization and urbanism took place.

While recurrently cited in the specialized bibliography, until recent years Castellet de Banyoles was only really known by the findings of monetary hoards and some luxury ritual vases, in addition to the Hellenistic-type pentagonal towers flanking the site entrance. Excavation work since 1998 has enabled precise dating of the first settlement between the last third of the 3rd century BC and early 2nd century BC, and has revealed the existence at that time of a Punic-type compartments wall, as well as an extensive dwelling area, which probably corresponds to a specific gens. Houses of different types and sizes are attested, as well as a possible sanctuary. With an area of 4.5 ha, Castellet de Banyoles is a small city that brought together the entire population of the Mora basin, following a mononuclear model unprecedented in the northern Iberian world. This is likely explained by strategic reasons in a turbulent historical context due to the Barcid expansion in the Iberian Peninsula and the Second Punic War. Aunque es un yacimiento recurrentemente mencionado en la bibliografía especializada, hasta hace pocos años el Castellet de Banyoles sólo era realmente conocido por los hallazgos monetarios y de elementos suntuarios de carácter ritual, a parte de las torres pentagonales de tipo helenístico que flanquean su puerta. Los trabajos realizados desde 1998 han permitido precisar la datación del primer asentamiento entre el último tercio del siglo III a.C. y principios del II a.C., y han mostrado la existencia en ese momento de una muralla de compartimentos de tipo púnico. También han traído a luz un extenso sector de hábitat —que probablemente corresponde a un grupo gentilicio—, con casas de distintos tipos y tamaños, y un posible santuario. Con una superficie de 4,5 ha, se trata de una pequeña ciudad que agrupaba toda la población de la hoya de Móra, siguiendo un modelo mononuclear inédito en el mundo ibérico septentrional, y que tal vez se explique por razones estratégicas en un contexto histórico convulso a causa de la expansión bárquida y la segunda guerra púnica.

This paper calls for attention to the architecture of domestic combustion structures (hearths and ovens) in the rural settlements of central Spain during the first early medieval centuries. Some of the major problems of identification and the possibilities of morphological categorization are outlined through a brief review of their main features, as is evident in data from a handful of sites from different periods. Finally the paper points out the relevance and need for proper systematization and interpretation of these structures in order to understand the functioning of the peasant domestic space as a whole and its transformation over time. El presente trabajo reclama la atención sobre la arquitectura de las estructuras de combustión de carácter doméstico (hogares y hornos) presentes en los asentamientos rurales de los primeros siglos altomedievales en el centro peninsular. A través de un somero repaso de las principales características de las mismas, tal y como se desprende de la documentación de un puñado de yacimientos de distinta cronología, se exponen los principales problemas de identificación de este tipo de estructuras y algunas posibilidades de categorización morfológica. Finalmente se apunta la relevancia y necesidad de una adecuada sistematización e interpretación de estas estructuras con objeto de comprender el funcionamiento del espacio doméstico campesino en su conjunto y su proceso de transformación a lo largo del tiempo.

The aim of this paper is carrying out a social and economic analysis of household units of the northwest area of the Iberian Peninsula through the domestic architecture. More than sixty sites will be analysed, most of them excavated in the context of commercial archaeology of the last decade. This database allows to study the main constructive typologies in 5th to 10th village contexts as well as to recognize the existence of a remarkable territorial, geographic and diachronic diversity as a reflection of diverse «constructive forms». El objetivo de este trabajo es el de realizar un análisis social y económico de las unidades domésticas del cuadrante nordoccidental de la Península Ibérica a través de la arquitectura doméstica. En este estudio se analizan más de sesenta yacimientos, la mayor parte de los cuáles ha sido excavado en el marco de intervenciones de carácter preventivo realizado en el último decenio. Esta base de datos ha permitido estudiar las principales tipologías constructivas presentes en entornos aldeanos durante los siglos V y XI, así como reconocer la existencia de una notable variedad territorial geográfica y diacrónica, reflejo de una diversidad de «modos constructivos».

Proyecto Fin de Carrera-Universidad de Salamanca, Escuela Politécnica Superior de Zamora, 2012, [ES] El proyecto de la "Casa Ubatuba" (Sao Paulo, Brasil), para su uso como vivienda unifamiliar, tiene como objeto proporcionar la documentación para el análisis de la vivienda, proyectada por el arquitecto brasileño Angelo Bucci., [EN] The project of "House Ubatuba" (Sao Paulo, Brazil), for use as a dwelling unit, is intended to provide documentation for the analysis of the home, designed by Brazilian architect Angelo Bucci.

Urban cartography reached a period of glory during the 16th-18th centuries. This source has been used in urban and artistic large-scale analysis, but it can be also an important resource in archeology of architecture, presenting besides a reflection on the iconographic representation of the construction. The method has been applied to the Carpio suburb, in the city of Oviedo (Asturias, Spain), from a diachronic approach of time. The work has been divided into three phases: analysis of graphic, written and archaeological sources, urban prospection and final synthesis. The result allows us to appreciate the evolution of urbanism and domestic architecture between the 12th and 18th centuries, proposing a sequence of the constructive cycles and its interpretation based on the different historical contexts. In this sense, the sociological and structural causes have been more highlighted than events such as disasters (fires, sieges). The phases of economic growth and consolidation of hierarchies are quite important. These hierarchies had also strong speculative interests because they were the greatest owners of land and buildings and exerted therefore infuence on the municipal policy. La cartografía urbana alcanzó un período de esplendor durante los siglos XVI-XVIII. Esta fuente ha sido empleada en análisis urbanísticos y artísticos a gran escala, pero puede ser también un importante recurso en arqueología de la arquitectura, planteando, además, una reflexión sobre la representación iconográfica de la construcción. El método ha sido aplicado al arrabal del Carpio de la ciudad de Oviedo a partir de un enfoque diacrónico de tiempo largo y un trabajo dividido en tres fases: análisis de fuentes gráficas, escritas y arqueológicas, prospección urbanística y síntesis final. El resultado permite apreciar la evolución del urbanismo y de la arquitectura doméstica entre los siglos XII y XVIII, proponiendo una secuenciación de los ciclos constructivos y su interpretación a partir de los distintos contextos históricos. En este sentido, se resaltan las causas estructurales y sociales por encima de acontecimientos como las catástrofes (incendios, asedios). Las fases de crecimiento económico y consolidación de los grupos de poder tienen gran importancia. Estas jerarquías poseían, además, fuertes intereses especulativos como máximos propietarios de solares e inmuebles e influyeron en la política municipal.

Màster Oficial en Gestió del Patrimoni Cultural, tutor: Xavier Roigé, Proposta d'activació de les cases dels refugiats a l'avinguda Alexandras com a centre d'interpretació històric

Made from a mixture of silt, clay, sand, and straw formed into regular molded units, unfired mud-bricks were the primary construction material employed in ancient Egypt—being quite literally the most basic of building blocks for all levels of domestic structures, from simple one-room buildings to lavishly decorated palace complexes, as well as administrative and storage structures, and even early phases of temples. Modern methods of mud-brick fabrication accord with ancient evidence, suggesting that the production of unfired mud-brick has remained a stable technology through the millennia. Ancient evidence concerning mud-brick not only illuminates mud-brick production organization, but also highlights the symbolic significance of bricks in religious contexts, especially relating to birth and death.

Made from a mixture of silt, clay, sand, and straw formed into regular molded units, unfired mud-bricks were the primary construction material employed in ancient Egypt—being quite literally the most basic of building blocks for all levels of domestic structures, from simple one-room buildings to lavishly decorated palace complexes, as well as administrative and storage structures, and even early phases of temples. Modern methods of mud-brick fabrication accord with ancient evidence, suggesting that the production of unfired mud-brick has remained a stable technology through the millennia. Ancient evidence concerning mud-brick not only illuminates mud-brick production organization, but also highlights the symbolic significance of bricks in religious contexts, especially relating to birth and death.

Esta tesis quisiera ser el reflejo de un recorrido personal por las intenciones del proyecto moderno. La tesis se ha elaborado a partir de la suma de ensayos sobre la dificultad en la búsqueda moderna del habitar, sobre la noción de casa dentro del proyecto moderno.Se ha dividido en tres capítulos que desarrollan un recorrido a seguir en esta personal confrontación existencial y artística que investiga los procesos y dificultades inherentes que todo individuo atesora en la búsqueda moderna del habitar, y un cuarto capítulo de conclusiones. El primer capítulo se ha subdividido en nueve temas con sus subsiguientes apartados:· El primer tema nos remite a presentar el concepto arquitectónico como base sustancial del proyecto artístico contemporáneo.· El segundo tema introduce el concepto de habitar como clave para desentrañar la relación que conforma el individuo con su espacio vivencial.· El tercer tema hace referencia a concretar a través de pequeñas pinceladas lo que denominamos casa burguesa, su formación y posterior evolución hasta nuestros días.· La noción de confort aparece en el cuarto tema focalizando su desarrollo en base a las pautas histórico-sociales que el vocablo simboliza.· El apartado quinto se pregunta sobre la conciencia de las relaciones históricas de los géneros, masculino y femenino.· En la casa y sus enseres, tema sexto, introduzco apuntes antropológicos que me sirven para apoyar el inicio de una teoría de las necesidades del individuo arcaico.· El séptimo apartado reflexionará hacia el concepto de domesticidad del objeto cotidiano.· En el título octavo nos acercamos a la noción de objeto, se intentará tejer un paralelismo entre referentes psicológicos y filosóficos.· Y por último el noveno tema se centrará en una visión artística que subvierte la idea de bienestar en el mueble doméstico.El segundo capítulo aborda desde una mirada mucho más clarificada la exposición de referentes artísticos y arquitectónicos contemporáneos que han priorizado en su temática el escenario del habitar. La elección de artistas y arquitectos se ha formalizado queriendo y buscando encontrar conexiones con mi propio proyecto artístico y con parámetros que pueden generar una visión poliédrica de las disfunciones de las que participan las diferentes geografías del habitar.El tercer capítulo se centra en abordar de una manera más personalizada toda la evolución de mi trabajo artístico y conceptual creando metáforas con referentes literarios, arquitectónicos, filosóficos y plásticos. Este capítulo se subdivide en dos subtítulos en el primero de ellos, "Memoria de una casa esencial", puntualizo brevemente los impulsos y condicionantes que me llevaron a adquirir y reflexionar acerca del concepto de una vivienda propia. El segundo apartado y desde un punto más descriptivo técnicamente dibuja la geografía autobiográfica y territorial de mi casa particular.Todo el capítulo tercero adquiere el formato de conclusión final al texto de tesis anterior, dicha conclusión ejemplifica y recoge mi proyecto artístico sobre la escenografía doméstica occidental., DOCTORAL THESIS:"Difficulty in the modern search of living. The domestic territory as artistic and existential confrontation"TEXT:This thesis is a reflection of a personal tour along the intentions of a modern project. It has been elaborated from a sum of essays based on the difficulty in the modern search of living, related to the notion of housing inside a modern project. The thesis is divided in three chapters which develop an existential and artistic confrontation. This confrontation investigates the processes and difficulties that an individual hoards in the modern search of living, and the fourth chapter is the conclusion.The first chapter has been subdivided in nine topics with its following paragraphs:- The first topic shows us the architectural concept as an important base of the artistic contemporary project.- The second topic introduces the concept of living as a way of uncovering the relationship between the individual and its existential space.- The third topic refers to making concrete across small brushstrokes what we name bourgeois house, their building and their evolution towards the present day.- The notion of comfort appears in the fourth topic focusing its development on the basis of the social and historical guidelines that the word symbolizes.- The fifth paragraph wonders on the conscience of the historical relations of the genres, masculine and feminine.- In the house and its chattels, the sixth topic introduces anthropologic notes that were used for the beginning of a theory about the needs of the archaic individual.- The seventh paragraph thinks about the concept of domesticity of a daily object.- In the eighth paragraphs we approach the notion of object, trying to weave a parallelism between psychological and philosophical modals.- And finally the ninth topic will focus on an artistic vision that subverts the idea of well-being in domestic furniture.The second chapter approaches, from a much more clarified look, on the exhibition of artistic and architectural contemporary reference which have prioritized its subject matter, the scene of living. The choice of the artists and architects has been done by finding connections with both my own artistic project and parameters that can generate a polyhedral vision of the dysfunctions of those who participate in different geographies of living.The third chapter aims at approaching in a more personalized way the whole evolution of my artistic and conceptual work by creating metaphors with literary, architectural, philosophical and plastic references. This chapter subdivides in two paragraphs. The first one," Memories of an essential house ", I briefly specify the impulses that bring me to think about the concept of owning a house. From a more descriptive point, the second paragraph draws the autobiographical and territorial geography of my particular house.The whole fourth chapter is a conclusion of the previous thesis which exemplifies and gathers my artistic project on the domestic western scenery.

We study here a set of finds from an urban house, the Casa de los Plintos, which has been excavated completely near the forum of the Roman town of Uxama (Osma, Soria, Spain). This house was built in the first century, remodelled later on and was destroyed in a fire in the second half of the third century. In a room below the destruction level, an unaltered deposit dating from the fire event was found; this is the set we present and study here. It consists of about one hundred objects, generally quite well preserved, with associations among ware productions, metal objects, coins and another furniture pieces. This set provides a domestic scale image of a part of the material culture in this area of the Tarraconensis during the third century. En este trabajo se estudia un conjunto de materiales procedentes de una casa urbana del valle oriental del Duero construida en el siglo I, reformada después y destruida por un incendio en la segunda mitad del siglo III. Esta domus, la Casa de los plintos, situada junto al foro en la ciudad de Uxama, ha sido excavada por completo y en una de sus habitaciones, bajo una potente capa de escombros, se ha hallado un depósito inalterado correspondiente al momento de la destrucción. Consta de casi un centenar de piezas, la mayoría muy bien conservadas, donde se asocian diversas producciones cerámicas, objetos de metal, monedas, y otros elementos del mobiliario. Ese conjunto nos proporciona la imagen a escala doméstica de parte de la cultura material de esa zona de la Tarraconense durante la tercera centuria.

Tradicionalmente, la mayor parte de los estudios arqueológicos sobre la Qurtuba islámica han estado deslumbrados por la ciudad omeya. La ciudad tardoislámica, a menudo, fue olvidada. Sin embargo, actualmente, las recientes excavaciones efectuadas en Córdoba nos aportan una nueva información sobre la ciudad islámica. Ahora, creemos que, con esta nueva documentación arqueológica podemos investigar este periodo que, con frecuencia, fue obviado en la historiografía local. Por ello, en este artículo, pretendemos ofrecer una aproximación a la Qurt≥uba Tardoislámica a través de la arquitectura doméstica de al-Rabad≥ al-Šarquı.– Traditionally, the most of archaeological studies about Islamic Qurt≥uba have been fascinated with the Umayyad city. Late Islamic city often was forgiven. Therefore, presently, latest excavations made in Cordoba bring us new information about Islamic city. Now, we think that, with this new archaeological information, we can research this period that, habitually, was forgiven in local historiography. So, in this paper we expect offer an approximation to Late Islamic Qurt≥uba through domestic architecture from al- Rabad≥ al-Šarquı.–