[ الأسس التصميمية والقيم الفكرية في عمارة المسكن اليمني القديم ]
Volume 9, Issue 4, December 2014, Pages 1437–1449
Ahmed Al-Nehmi1, Prof. Aly Gabr2, and Prof. Alaa El-Din Shaheen3
1 Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Dhamar University, Yemen
2 Prof. in History of Architecture, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt
3 Prof. in history and civilization of Egypt and the ancient Near East, the Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, Egypt
Original language: Arabic
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Our knowledge of an ancient architecture of Yemen during a period prior to sixth century AD is still not enough. It needs a lot of research and investigation. This research deals with the house in old Yemen during a period of the ancient Yemen kingdoms since the beginning of first millennium BC even appearance of Kingdom of Himyarite in the first three centuries AD. It aims to identify the design basics and intellectual values of the house. It deals with the house and palace of three kingdoms of old Yemen. They are Saba Kingdom, Qataban Kingdom and Hadramout Kingdom. They were studied and analyzed, and then draw general conclusions on the architecture, and draw a set of design basics and intellectual values of the architecture of old Yemen.[
Author Keywords: Ancient Architecture of Yemen, Yemen's History, Ancient Religion of Yemen, Tower House, Symbolism.
Volume 9, Issue 4, December 2014, Pages 1437–1449
Ahmed Al-Nehmi1, Prof. Aly Gabr2, and Prof. Alaa El-Din Shaheen3
1 Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Dhamar University, Yemen
2 Prof. in History of Architecture, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt
3 Prof. in history and civilization of Egypt and the ancient Near East, the Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, Egypt
Original language: Arabic
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Our knowledge of an ancient architecture of Yemen during a period prior to sixth century AD is still not enough. It needs a lot of research and investigation. This research deals with the house in old Yemen during a period of the ancient Yemen kingdoms since the beginning of first millennium BC even appearance of Kingdom of Himyarite in the first three centuries AD. It aims to identify the design basics and intellectual values of the house. It deals with the house and palace of three kingdoms of old Yemen. They are Saba Kingdom, Qataban Kingdom and Hadramout Kingdom. They were studied and analyzed, and then draw general conclusions on the architecture, and draw a set of design basics and intellectual values of the architecture of old Yemen.[
Author Keywords: Ancient Architecture of Yemen, Yemen's History, Ancient Religion of Yemen, Tower House, Symbolism.
Abstract: (arabic)
لا تزال معرفتنا بالعمارة اليمنية القديمة لفترة ما قبل القرن السادس الميلادي - فترة ما قبل دخول الإسلام إلى اليمن – غير كافية، فهي بحاجة إلى الكثير من البحث والتقصي. يتناول البحث الحالي المسكن في اليمن القديم خلال فترة حكم الممالك اليمنية القديمة وذلك منذ بداية الألف الأول ق.م وحتى ظهور القوة الريدانية (مملكة حمير) في القرون الميلادية الثلاثة الأولى. ويهدف البحث إلى التعرف على الأسس التصميمية والقيم الفكرية للمسكن في تلك الفترة. لذا، فقد تناول البحث عمارة المسكن والقصر لثلاث ممالك يمنية قديمة هي: مملكة سبأ وقتبان وحضرموت، وذلك من خلال انتخاب نماذج معينة للمسكن والقصر، والقيام بدراستها وتحليلها، وتم استخلاص نتائج عامة عن العمارة في تلك الحقبة، واستخلاص مجموعة من الأسس التصميمية والقيم الفكرية لعمارة اليمن القديم خلال تلك الحقبة.
Author Keywords: العمارة اليمنية القديمة، تاريخ اليمن، الديانة اليمنية القديمة، المسكن البرجي، الرمزية.
How to Cite this Article
Ahmed Al-Nehmi, Prof. Aly Gabr, and Prof. Alaa El-Din Shaheen, “Design Basics and intellectual values in the architecture of old Yemen house,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 1437–1449, December 2014.
