The village of Bani Al-Bala is located in Al-Baha and is about 15 km to the north from the city of Beljarshi. It is one of the large villages of Bani Ghamed. The village is characterized by its fort, which takes a pyramidal shape and its base is square and meets a defensive function of the village. Most of its houses consist of one or two floors, and the predominant percentage of the village houses are partially destroyed and abandoned. The village generally appears homogeneous with the slope of the natural land for its location. The adjacent between the buildings resulted in the emergence of the village in the form of an architectural fabric that expressed the local style in the planning of the heritage village. It was built using stone according to the shape of its natural section, which is in different sizes and various shapes and colors, and was installed on top of each other in an artistic way that requires high professional experience, and its shortness was done from the inside with a thick layer of clay and milk. It is noted that building craftsmen have been creative in the compositions of external facades and architectural openings through stone protrusions and the use of hard stone in the construction of external inclusions in a number of houses. The roofs were also built using tree trunks with a layer of tree branches above it, and above it mud and milk. In a number of houses, a roof was found based on rectangular wooden columns topped by a piece larger area that resembled the crown of the column and was known locally as (al-Muzrah). Al-Mazrah is considered a distinctive architectural element of this architectural style in that area. The use of shubs from a tree trunk was observed in its natural form. It was also observed that there are a few decorations that decorate the windows and doors of a number of village houses.
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