Space, Kinship and Gender (ص 129)

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Space, Kinship and Gender (ص 129)

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distinction was made between the lower and upper floors, both built
from rough squarish stones. The massive and solid exterior walls
had very few openings, hence revealing very little about the inside.
As seen in figure 4.25, the west and east elevations each had two
small squarish windows (20 x 20 em) called hlalat. In 1966, two
relatively big windows were opened in the west elevation, hence
changing the character of the once impermeable exterior boundary.
This impermeability was also true of the front facade before the
opening of the middle door and the big window in the 1930s. The
middle part of this facade was badly damaged in the 1928 earthquake.
As a result the middle elevated room ('allieh) was pulled down in
1942, leaving only the slab of a projecting window (kishk). The four
corbel stones which carried this window are still projecting from the
facade today.
The most elaborate section of this degenerated facade is its entry
gate. The projecting frame receiving the gate, the two lines carved
around this frame and the smooth ashlar stone used only for this
frame, all emphasize the importance of the former single opening.
The architectural articulation of the entry gate (Fig.4.52) also
expresses the social significance of the compound. The wooden gate
So
which is made of a single leaf, is set
in a niche. The door itself has a
beautiful segmental arch made of red
and white interlocking vousoirs. The
big door contains a smaller auxiliary
door. Only important guests were
received through the fully opened
door. The niche receives a_ simple
pointed arch with two stone seats
(maksaleh), typical of most Barghouthi
houses.
Tr 2
riq. 4,52: Entry gate
The Inner Spatial Organization
The darkness of the entry vestibule, and the change in direction of
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