Common Traditional Places for Mashrabiya
Façades of traditional houses (Figures 2.41- 2.42).
Mosques (Figure 2.43).
Semi-public buildings like : agencies and caravansaries (Figure 2.44).
Tombs (Figure 2.45) (Feeny,1974).
Partition in interior design between rooms to increase ventilation from more than one side of the house, as seen in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (Fathy, 1986).
Mashrabiyas were introduced into mosques too, often on a much larger scale, but serving the same purpose: filtering the intense sunlight flooding into the traditional courtyard and providing a cool shaded interior conducive to prayer and meditation. Others were created for large semi-public buildings like the wakalah, or caravansary, of el-Ghori, built in the 16th century to accommodate merchants coming into Cairo with caravans from the Red Sea. But the best examples were found in the great homes of Cairo, homes like el-Kretiliya, hard against the ninth-century walls of Ibn Tulun's great mosque, and el-Seheimy house, built in 1645. (Feeney, 1974) (Figure 2.46).
Façades of traditional houses
Figure 2.41: Mashrabiyas in Harem Room, Gayer Anderson House, Cairo, Egypt (Alothman, 2016)
Figure 2.42: Mashrabiyas on the terrace of Gayer Anderson House, Egypt (Alothman, 2016)
Mosques
Figure 2.43: Mashrabiya in Faraj Ibn Berkuk Mosque, Cairo, Egypt (Alothman, 2016)
Semi-public buildings like : agencies and caravansaries
Figure 2.44: Mashrabiyas of Bazara Wakala in Cairo, Egypt (Alothman, 2016)
Tombs
Figure 2.45: Tomb of Salim Chishti in India (Fatehpur, 2010)