SPATIAL AND CULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF THE HOUSES OF OMDURMAN, SUDAN

This paper summarizes the results of a concurrent investigation of ext ant housing patterns and daily domestic habits conducted in an urban S ucanese context. A combination of standard social sciences' research p rocedures and a modified space syntax/graph theory technique are emplo yed to investigate society-space relationship. The social study reveal s gender division in the conduct of activities and use of space, where as the spatial analysis highlights a morphological pattern of gender s egregation in the Sudanese house. The findings suggest that applying b oth spatial and aspatial methods of analysis is invaluable for eliciti ng and interpreting society's cultural norms.