ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT OF MAHARAJA SAYAJIRAO UNIVERSITY.

Reed house,ma’dan iraq

SUBJECT : HUMANITIES
TOPIC : Reed house,ma’dan iraq
CASE STUDY BY : DESAI DHRUV , DHRUV BHATT ,MITALI PARMAR ,DAKSH MEWADA , RAVI
MEWADA ,MANAV PRAJAPATI
SEM : 1ST 2023
Guide by:-ar digisha mehta and ar khayti rathod

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CONTENT

location
Lake hammer/ culture
About architecture
Reed
Building material
Mudhif
Dwellings
Construction/ plan
Elevation
Details
Structure

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Location

Reed houses is
located at
surrounding the Lake
hammer in iraq

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Lake hammer

Large swampy lake in southeastern Iraq, south of the

junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Fed by
distributaries of the Euphrates, the lake (70 miles [110
km] long; 750 square miles [1,950 square km] in area)
drains via a short channel into the Shaṭṭ al-ʿArab near
Basra. It was once only a reed-filled marshland but was
later utilized as a natural irrigation reservoir for the
fertile soils of the delta region, where dates, rice, and
cotton were grown. The lake and surrounding
marshlands are the traditional home of the Maʿdan, a
tribe of seminomadic marsh dwellers who are
sometimes referred to as Marsh Arabs. Their distinctive
culture is based on the herding of water buffalo, the
hunting of wildfowl and pigs from reed canoes, and the
building of elaborate houses of woven reeds (Arabic:
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REED ARCHITECTURE

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nature of course is to design for both climate
and topography, using local resources to make
ourselves comfortable by means of the building
itself, with a minimum involvement of
mechanical devices. The earliest known example
of such construction still in use is the Sumerian,
reed-built mudhif which is also one of the
oldest known monumental building types.
These mudhifs were built by the culture which
not only developed the world’s first cities, with
their great mud-brick ziggurats and temples; it
also invented writing, for the keeping of temple
records. And of course, for sustenance, the cities
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REED

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REED AS BUILDING MATERIAL

It has high concentration
of silica which makes it
water resistant .
Unattractive for insects
and other pets
Excellent thermal and
acoustical material
Inexpensive and both
flexibile and durable

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Mudhif `

A Mudhif is a traditional reed house made by the Madan

people (also known as Marsh Arabs) in the swamps of southern
Iraq. Mudhif is used as a place to settle disputes with other
Tribes and as a gathering point for religious and other
celebration and it is also a place where visitors are offerend
hospitaly

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Dwellings
This types of dwellings is used
for a family dwelling . Or which
is strictly single room dwelling
and typically smaller than a
muddif may be used for
residential and other purposes

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Construction
The reed house (mudhif) is The builders
constructed around a framework even use a
made by tripod of
tying the giant reeds—they can bundled
grow to 20 feet (6 meters) long— reeds as
to scaffolding for
make bundles that taper from this part of
about 1.5 feet to 6 inches (45 to the work. The
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centimeters). The thick ends are frames are
stuck into the mud floor of the stabilized with
island in closely
opposing pairs and then bent and spaced, much
lashed together, with a substantial thinner reed
overlap at the top, to form a row bundles (like
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Elevation

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Details

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Structure
The completed framework is covered
with intricately woven split-reed mats to
form the integrated walls and roof. The
upper parts of the end walls are
enclosed with a curtain of the same
material, and four or five reed “columns”
are erected to support a framework to
which a decorative lattice is fixed,
always to beautiful effect. Depending on
the length of the reeds used for the
arches, the house can be 12 feet (3.7
meters) wide; the length is
indeterminate, and buildings up to 100
feet (30 meters) have been recorded.
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• https://g.co/kgs/yJMQhM
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mudhif-houses
• https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/mudhif-0016908
• https://youtu.be/Dhqw5ac0WoE?si=LPcrQTSxfgjUo57X

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