Tag:dwelling
Today’s photo, titled, ‘A Room With a View’ is, I believe from inside the cave dwelling near the center of the hilltop in my photo, ‘The Lookout’.
Today’s photo is of a dwelling in the lookout hill I posted yesterday. I’m not expert in these things but I think what we’re looking at was one an interior chamber, hacked out of the soft limestone rock. The rounded shape just isn’t natural.
These buildings are multi-family dwellings with a public space along one side and private divided spaces on the other. The raised floor protects against flooding when it rains and allows air to circulate keeping the structure cooler when it’s not raining. Traditionally, the roof would have been made from leaves but that lost out to the technology of corrugated iron many years ago. I can’t image how noisy it is in there during a storm!
Doorways and window openings are set in the whitewashed walls. Periodically there are gaps in the roof that allow the passages to breathe and let in light.
