Contemporary Residential Areasas an Example of Tradition-led Urban Designin Islamic Cities. Case study of Jazan in Saudi Arabia

Abdelmuniem  Khamui; Bartosz  Kaźmierczak; Dominika  Pazder

Contemporary Residential Areasas an Example of Tradition-led Urban Designin Islamic Cities. Case study of Jazan in Saudi Arabia

Publication date: 09.2022

Housing Environment, 2022, 38/2022, pp. 13 - 22

https://doi.org/10.4467/25438700SM.22.006.16106

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Contemporary Residential Areasas an Example of Tradition-led Urban Designin Islamic Cities. Case study of Jazan in Saudi Arabia

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This article focuses on how modern housing environment is shaped via the specifics of construction in extremely challenging weather conditions in the cities of Saudi Arabia. With the overall goal that modern housing must be eco- and human-friendly in mind, the authors have attempted to identify the characteristic features of the Islamic cities and traditional local methods of construction. The article presents typical solutions of local architecture and urban plans, expecting that they might render significant guidelines for the spatial organisation of modern cities. A case study of Jazan city and its neighbourhood has been intended to analyse not only the spatial design of the city but also a recently worked out Masterplan. Both the architecture and the urban planning of Jazan city might serve as a good example of modern interpretation of heritage that underlies high quality housing environment.

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Saudi Arabia, Jazan, masterplan for residential area, tradition-led design

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Information: Housing Environment, 2022, 38/2022, pp. 13 - 22

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/25438700SM.22.006.16106

Article type: Original article

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Contemporary Residential Areasas an Example of Tradition-led Urban Designin Islamic Cities. Case study of Jazan in Saudi Arabia

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Contemporary Residential Areasas an Example of Tradition-led Urban Designin Islamic Cities. Case study of Jazan in Saudi Arabia

Authors

Abdelmuniem Khamui

Tarik Alireza Consulting Engineers

Bartosz Kaźmierczak

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8436-6963

Poznan University of Technology

Dominika Pazder

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0071-3540

Faculty of Architecture, Poznan University of Technology

Published at: 09.2022

Article status: Open

Licence: CC BY

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Abdelmuniem Khamui (Author) - 33%

Bartosz Kaźmierczak (Author) - 33%

Dominika Pazder (Author) - 34%

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