Moroccan riad Moroccan riad A riad () is a type of traditional Moroccan house or palace with an interior garden or courtyard. The word riad originates from the Arabian term for garden, , ryad. The ancient Roman city of Volubilis provided a reference for the beginnings of riad architecture during the Idrisid Dynasty. When the Almoravids conquered Spain in the 11th century they sent Muslim, Christian and Jewish artisans from Spain to Morocco to work on monuments. The Riad is the Moroccan traditional house, normally with two or more stories around an Andalusian-style courtyard that contained a fountain. Riads were the stately
Sundanese traditional house The ornamentation commonly includes the "o" or "x" shaped roof edges that called "capit gunting", which is very similar to a certain "x" design of Malay houses' roof. Next to houses, rice barn or called "leuit" in Sundanese, is also an essential structure in traditional Sundanese agricultural community. "Leuit" is especially important during "Seren Taun" harvest ceremony. Compared to Javanese houses, Dayak longhouses or Minangkabau houses, Sundanese traditional houses are much smaller with only consists of three parts or rooms for a single nuclear family. A more traditional house of Baduy people, a sub-ethnic of Sundanese people is called "Sulah