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December 03, 2016 by guardiancities
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In Lebanon, the house with three arches appeared in the second half of the 19th- century. It is a typical middle-class, bourgeois house. Its characteristics belong to Ottoman modernity: overall outside appearance, industrial materials used, and urban rules and regulations followed.
This typology is made up of several dwelling rooms, organized around a large central hall or room. The back of this large room contains a typical element called liwan. This room is often protruding and is usually a living room. The front of this main room usually has a decorated three arch window, opening onto a narrow balcony. This decorative element makes the model specific and differs from the Beirut model of another typology of houses with central hall that appeared in the Middle East, at the same period.
The size, inside decoration and location of the house are related to the means of its owner. The house usually has one or two floors and is called bayt. The tallest houses are called harat. Houses that have two apartments per floor are called wikalat. Aristocratic homes have towers, porches and other outstanding features. In mountain environment, these homes can also include a kiosk, riwaq and mandaloun.
The origin of this house is Beirut: from there it spread throughout Lebanon and is considered as the most typical Lebanese house by the population.
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