MESOPOTAMIAN

ARCHITECTURE
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MESO POTAMIA CAME FROM THE
GREEK WORD

MESOS = MIDDLE
POTAMOS = RIVER
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= RIVER
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URBAN PLANNING

Although no Architectural profession during

that time. Mesopotamia has contributed a
lot in the development of Urban Planning
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URBAN PLANNING

The 400m or 5
minute walk
radius typically
defines an urban
district.
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URBAN PLANNING

The City wall has

900 bastions 12m
O.C.
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FLOOR PLANS

TRIPARTITE PLAN
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FLOOR PLANS
Tripartite building
becomes standard
framework for
domestic life and the
metaphor of the
household is extended
to the administrative,
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FLOOR PLANS
Productive, and ritual
action creating a new
work ethics and
greater overall
impact.
Altar
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FLOOR PLANS
Productive, and ritual
action creating a new
work ethics and
Sto greater overall
impact.
Altar
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FLOOR PLANS

Food Processing
Sto Pottery Production
Altar Weaving
Nurturing Infants
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FLOOR PLANS

Food Processing
Sto Pottery Production
Altar Weaving
Admin Nurturing Infants
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FLOOR PLANS

Raising terraces or platforms some 30’

to 50’ height”
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WALLS

1. Massive Structure
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WALLS
Structures were built with
Baked Mud Bricks and
set with clay mortar

CLAY MORTAR
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WALLS
Heavy walls was
articulated by pilasters
and recesses and faced
with glazed bricks.
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WALLS

1. Arcuated Architecture
System
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WALLS
Doorways were spanned
by double semi-circular
arches

Arches
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OPENINGS

The LIGHTING to the temples is conjectual,

but it appears to have been affected by mean of
a “clerestory”.
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OPENINGS

Small and infrequent

windows
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ROOFS

The roofs appears to have been

affected by means of timber beams
reching from one column to the
next.
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ROOFS

Roofs of considerable thickness

were flat, formed of very tough but
plastic clay and debris.
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ROOFS
ROOFS
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ROOFS
ROOFS
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COLUMNS

These were primarily of wood, but

in later periods at Persepolis, the
Persians, on their return from
Egypt, built them on Natural Stone
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The capitals were
characteristics, being
of the “double-bull”,
“Double-unicorn”,
“Double-horse” or
“double-griffen”
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ORNAMENTS

Assyrian used sculptured friezes, colored

decorations and the honeysuckle and
guilloche ornaments, the latter being seen
in pavement slab from the palace of
Nineveh.
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ORNAMENTS

SCULPTURE FRIEZE
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ORNAMENTS
An engraving
technique in which a
very precise intricate
repetitive pattern or
design is mechanically
etched into an
underlying material
with fine detail.
GUILLOCHE
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ORNAMENTS an ornament of floral
forms in a flat radiating
cluster, as in
architectural decoration,
vase painting, etc.

HONEYSUCKLE
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ORNAMENTS

COLORED DECORATION
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