Ur Typical Courtyard House

Sumerian and Babylonian Civilization; a Mesopotamian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, occupation dating from c. 6500 B.C.E.; located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq; originally a Persian Gulf coastal city begun c. 3800 B.C.E., near the mouth of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers before those rivers changed courses. There is a clever design strategy to cool the house naturally by keeping the thermally massive adobe walls in shade, from adjacent houses, second story courtyard balcony and overhanging roof, while, at the same time, introducing soft room lighting from the central courtyard.

Elevation is 6 meters (19.69 feet) above sea level.

Materials: adobe bricks covered with baked bricks laid in natural occurring bitumen; wood beams and columns.

Source of data for this model:
1. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Figure-2-Plan-of-House-at-Ur-Mesopotamia-Al-Dawoud-2006_fig2_303033427
2. http://www.odysseyadventures.ca/articles/ur%20of%20the%20chaldees/ur_article04houses.html