Housing quality, an analytical approach of Typology and construction between the city of Ohri and Berat

The city of Ohri and Berati have a long urban history rooted deep down in ancient times. Different factors indicated the formation and the development of the cities itself during their existence. Both cities, Ohri, and Berati are known as cities of fortification and churches, but as the time goes by, in their architectural layers have saved with jealousy layered a fortune of the domestic architecture. Being part of the Ottoman Empire for almost five centuries, it is obviously that traces of the previous eras will be ‘covered’ with the Ottoman presence, evident especially in the vernacular architecture. This article offers an insight into Ottoman era patterns appearing in the town of Berati and Ohri,as a marvelous example of the Ottoman era vernacular house in the Balkans. The aim of this paper is to firstly present the factors that influenced the creation of residential architecture in these two cities, to then have a data base to make a qualitative comparison of the housing built in these two cities. Through the comparison, it is attempted to present the quality of the houses, both in typology and construction, as well