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Life on Land: Water, Flora & Fauna

Survival in a harsh environment

The house focused on the desert environment and the survival skills it demanded. Its central thread is water — the scarcest resource — and how it was drawn from wells and distributed house to house by the al-hawih, the traditional water seller, a role that reveals how communal and precarious water supply once was. Alongside, the house covers the native flora and fauna of the land and the local knowledge needed to live among them. It is the house that most directly conveys the difficulty of life on the land, and the ingenuity that difficulty required.

Al Shindagha Museum