Abandoned House, Rayyan, Qatar

[patgund]

(Crossposted to my LJ and abandonedplaces)

I took some good shots of two abandoned houses in the Rayyan district of Doha, Qatar today.

The first house is the older adobe over brick or concrete construction. These usually have rope-bound poles for support, with a platted wood celing. It always strikes me as interesting how little out of place they would look in the US Southwest or even the desert parts of rural Mexico. I suspect the desert has it's own dictates on construction.



This from the side entryway down the patio



Taken inside though the remains of the door



Here you can see where the adobe or plaster has fallen off, exposing the rope-bound support pole



The end of the patio, where you can see the platted reeds or fronds that make up the roof have fallen



Windows inside the secondary building



Here's a schoolbook that was left behind



Here you can see a example of the roof contruction, with the reeds or strips of wood woven together



Courtyard of the house, with a sidra tree in the corner



This is the backside of house #1, taken from the courtyard of house #2. As I said, not out of place in parts of the US Southwest or rural Mexico.

I have pictures of a second house I'll post tomorrow. Also I found an "abandoned house" that wasn't as abandoned as one may think, it had been turned into a de-facto labor camp for the various third and fourth worlders that get hired here cheaply for constuction and labour.