A side from the courtyard of Bayt Jubran Afandi Shamiyya, Bab Tuma

A side from the courtyard of Bayt Jubran Afandi Shamiyya, Bab Tuma

Walls b & c, room 07, diagonal view with floor & ceiling

Room 07 with code P01.L00.07.00.Xc-d

A photo of the courtyard of Bayt Shaykh Qatana before demolition

A photo of the courtyard of Bayt Shaykh Qatana before demolition

Bayt Ghazala, 17th c. ground floor plan

Bayt Ghazala, 17th c. ground floor plan

Rich decorations in Bayt Shaykh Qatana before demolition

Rich decorations in Bayt Shaykh Qatana before demolition

Bayt Jubran Afandi Shamiyya, now the Riʿaya private school, Bab Tuma

Bayt Jubran Afandi Shamiyya, now the Riʿaya private school, Bab Tuma

Damascus, Glass Blowing Workshop near Bab Sharqi

Damascus, Glass Blowing Workshop near Bab Sharqi

Rural life in Qalamun mountains (Antilibanon): peasants returning home from grape harvest

Rural life in Qalamun mountains (Antilibanon): peasants returning home from grape harvest

Bayt Ghazala, courtyard - northern facade

Bayt Ghazala, courtyard – northern facade

Ghab plain: thatched mud houses, 1963

Ghab plain: thatched mud houses, 1963

Habuba Kabira, view into a plastered cantilever dome with openings and decorative layer

Habuba Kabira, view into a plastered cantilever dome with openings and decorative layer

Habuba Kabira, plastering of the domes after completion of the shell

Habuba Kabira, plastering of the domes after completion of the shell

Nahiyat Tall Tamir, Today empty domed houses in an Assyrian village seen from the street side

Nahiyat Tall Tamir, Today empty domed houses in an Assyrian village seen from the street side

Nahiyat Tall Tamir, The flattened dome roofs have just received new plastering.

Nahiyat Tall Tamir, The flattened dome roofs have just received new plastering.

Nahiyat Tall Tamir, Very well preserved domed rooms of a farmstead in an Assyrian village

Nahiyat Tall Tamir, Very well preserved domed rooms of a farmstead in an Assyrian village

As-Safira area in Aleppo province - clay dome houses

As-Safira area in Aleppo province – clay dome houses

Yabrud: shops with residential houses on the first floor, houses probably from the beginning of the 20th century

Yabrud: shops with residential houses on the first floor, houses probably from the beginning of the 20th century

Numbering application example for walls based on a room in Bayt Ghazala

Bayt-Ghazala_room-19_walls

in the Ghab plain: thatched mud houses, 1963

in the Ghab plain: thatched mud houses, 1963

Habuba Kabira, upper part of a cantilever dome construction

Habuba Kabira, upper part of a cantilever dome construction

Habuba Kabira, View from the inside of the room while constructing the dome

Habuba Kabira, View from the inside of the room while constructing the dome

Bayt Ghazala, courtyard - eastern facade

Bayt Ghazala, courtyard – eastern facade

View of wall in danger of collapse, after partial collapse of lower part in Bayt Ghazala (house), Aleppo, Syria

Fig.45-b_wall in danger of collapse

View of wall pillar in danger of collapse, after partial collapse of Bayt Ghazala (house), Aleppo, Syria

Fig.45-a_Wall pillar in danger of collapse

View towards souteast, rubble in the couryard, after partial collapse of Bayt Ghazala (house), Aleppo, Syria

Fig.07_view at rubble

Close-up view at entrance portal of a building from early 20th. ct.

Close-up image

Numbering application example for floors based on a room in Bayt Ghazala

Bayt-Ghazala_room-19_floors

Numbering application example for ceilings based on a room in Bayt Ghazala

Bayt-Ghazala_room-19_ceilings

Habuba Kabira, during the construction of cantilever domes, the mortar is pulled up using a bucket

Habuba Kabira, during the construction of cantilever domes, the mortar is pulled up using a bucket

Habuba Kabira, how three cantilever domes are connected (two cantilever domes are posed on a relieving arch)

Habuba Kabira, how three cantilever domes are connected (two cantilever domes are posed on a relieving arch)