INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC SCIENTIFIC - EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL ON SCIENTIFIC-TECHNOLOGICAL AND EDUCATIONAL-METHODICAL ASPECTS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION AND DESIGNING WITH THE USAGE OF VIDEO AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES
Article
THE TOWN OF SABHA IN THE NORTHEN DESERT OF JORDAN. PAST AND HERITAGE OF COEXISTENCE WITH THE LOCAL ENVIRONMENT
Authors
Abdel-Aziz Mahmoud Abdel-Aziz, Mohannad Tarrad, Al al-Bayt University, Mafraq, Jordan
Abstract
This field, architectural and ethnographic study deals with Sabha town in the Northern Badia of Jordan, which is rich in its civilizational cultural Inheritance. This town was chosen for the study because it contains various heritages, cultural sources and embodied by its traditional dwellings, Collectibles and tools founded and owned by bucolic Bedouin community settled with the early twenties of the last century that adopted pastoral mode of production, cultivation of dry grain in his daily life style. The Community has built its fixed stone dwelling to establish lasting stability in the site that helped him to satisfy his basic needs as shelter, saving holders and work equipment.
The study documents, describes and analyzes the traditional architecture, the elements of physical culture and attempt to reveal cultural heritage to employ it in the development of local community.
Keywords:
culture and the Jordanian society, traditional housing, Physical Culture, traditional Collectibles
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