We have always been sensitive and susceptible to our environments, as beings accustomed to activity and movement. Our collective spaces of engagement are usually divided between the private and the public, here exemplified by domestic courtyard houses (patio, riad, haveli) and the common marketplace (souk). Historically, courtyard homes are responses to community values (social, cultural, and religious) and the ways in which people gathered were influenced by trade relations that led to exchange of socio-cultural aspects of different communities.