The Textbook of Architecture

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A Maya house

A single room of poles and daub on a low stone platform under a steep hipped thatch, the common house of the Maya lowlands.

A Maya house Open in Models ↗

Illustrates: Mesoamerican

The rules it illustrates

The Maya house: a steep thatch over a divided room. Build the house of wood and daub under a steep roof of thatch or palm, to throw off the rain; divide it along its length by a wall, with a whitewashed front room for receiving guests and a back room for sleeping.