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As we have seen, the residential function is clear in the "Upper Housing"  which does not occur in the "Service Housing", where staff carry out their work to address the nutritional needs of key officials who held large residences located further south, an example of this is the "House of Ya'far" (prime minister of Caliph Abd al-Rahman III).
But still, the occidental house had a residential use and at the same time a service use, for making sure the second deductions, we haven’t got enough information. Therefore, we must emphasize that the housing connected to the western interior from the street "housing oriental" service, and with the already discussed "Upper Trapezoidal Space" through a staircase built on the north side of the courtyard of the building. Moreover, it seems possible to state with certainty that the West had a house floor, which is accessed through the above steps.
The oriental one was used for a domestic task. It was developed around a court; where two parts of the house are differentiated. They are separated by a big external door. In the eastern zone there is a nucleus of rooms with a porch and a toilet. The residential space was occupied by the chef of the kitchen (Sahid al–matbah) who ruled the whole kitchen and manage the activity in the rest of stay, dominated by elements associated with food handling, such as the oven, plus a double latrine that characterize workplace as intensively used. 
Both houses, the occidental and the oriental, are separated by a store and a toilet, where is located a warehouse (which would keep the products cooked in the oven housing East) and a bathroom border to maintain the hygiene of the staff of the service housing. This separation was ruled by the laws of the muslims; the oven hadn’t to be close to the house in order to avoid bad smells.
In the southern zone we find the "Ya-far House" whereas the occidental one is the "Pool House", with a big pool shared by the neighbours of both houses.
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