The Egyptian House; Lines of Egyptian Domestic Architecture
This article shares information on Egyptian Domestic Architecture.
Malqaf (Ventilator)
While many ascribe the introduction of the Malqaf in Egypt to the Arabs, Mulqaf is in fact an Egyptian architectural feature known and depicted in Egyptian drawings since the middle kingdom.1
With an opening or two directed to the North, Mulqaf and multiple windows could have worked as a solution for providing a successful circulation of Air, especially in compact buildings
Portico
Mud Models since the middle kingdom have shown a columned portico in front of the ground floor rooms. Portico will persist to appear in different tombs in the Middle Kingdom and in the new kingdom, where we see it, however, with more artistic and detailed shapes which might express the statues of the man who lived inside the house.
For a more in-depth history and details please read Portico in details
Blue and green
‘The Typical plan of the Egyptian house is already formed: the large orchard and lake were always considered as essential parts of a mansion ‘Alexander Badawy.
For a more in-depth history of the lake and garden in Egypt please read our article here Blue and Green
Doors and Gates
From the simplest lintel set on the elaborate door with grilled arched transom (Neferhotep, Meryre) or the peculiar portal with broken lintel in Amarna. The usual type has vertical jambs and a deep lintel decorated with a torus molding and cavetto A.B III 35.
For a more in-depth history of the Egyptian Doors please read Egyptian Doors
Windows
For a more in-depth historyplease read Egyptian windows
Egyptian Decoration
Egyptian have been known for their artistic character, they appreciated the beauty of their letter that they never dropped. While other countries around us were moving from pictorial writing, we, Egyptians, maintained both a Pictorial writing and also the easier abbreviation of it known as (Hieratic).
‘All Egyptian design was strongly decorative. The love of form and of drawings was perhaps a greater force with the Egyptians than with any other people’ Egyptian Decorative Art, Petrie
For a more in-depth historyplease read Egyptian Ornament
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