Origin: Ottoman Merchant House

An urban residence from the 17th to 19th century. It is neither a palace nor a farmhouse, but the home of merchants and gentry in the old city: acquiring an irregular plot within a dense block, enclosing it with high walls, and then organizing a rectilinear courtyard and rooms within. The exterior conforms to the alleys, while the interior pursues geometry. Avoid: depicting it as a manor isolated in the wilderness, having a rectilinear plot with four street frontages, making its scale that of a palace, and having the exterior outline also be a regular square.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一棟十七到十九世紀的城市住宅。它不是宮殿也不是農舍,而是老城裡商人與士紳的家:在密集的街廓中買下一塊不規則的地,用高牆圍起來,內部再自己整理出方正的中庭與房間。外部順應巷弄,內部追求幾何。避免:把它畫成獨立於曠野中的莊園、基地方正四面臨路、規模做成宮殿等級、讓外部輪廓也做成規整的方形。