URBAN LEGISLATION AND ITS IMPACT ON AN ENVIRONMENT OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE IN SAUDI ARABIA - STUDY OF BUILDING REGULATIONS IN THE CITY OF JEDDAH AS AN EXAMPLE-

Dahlan, Ammar S.; Mohamed, Ahmed Helal

doi:10.21608/jesaun.2010.123824

URBAN LEGISLATION AND ITS IMPACT ON AN ENVIRONMENT OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE IN SAUDI ARABIA - STUDY OF BUILDING REGULATIONS IN THE CITY OF JEDDAH AS AN EXAMPLE-

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ Head of Architecture - College of Environmental Design, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah

² Department of Architecture, College of Environmental Design, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah

10.21608/jesaun.2010.123824

Abstract

This research aims to study the legislation Urban, And its impacts on the environment architecture Saudi Arabia, And specifically on the apartment building, Through extrapolation of architectural reality in the city in Saudi Arabia , And identify you have this legislation to create architecture that has achieved the status of sustainability needs and requirements of society or not The research methodology adopted to achieve the above objectives, to formulate a number of main themes identified for this research and that can be studied through achieving the objectives of previous research, these themes are: 1- The first axis: A view of urban legislation regarding the direction and organization of work of construction, which include consideration of the requirements of building Assembly, and then study the shortcomings in the legislation. 2- The second axis: study reflection shortcomings in the legislation on the environment of urban contemporary architecture in Saudi Arabia. 3- The third axis: the extrapolation of fact, the architect of legislation reflected the urban contemporary architecture, a case study city of Jeddah as an example.

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