Abstract
Jeddah; as an Arabian city; has a unique inherited social image in its public spaces. Over long generations, Arabs used to head to the deserted areas, away from inhabited zones or along the coastal lines to spend a social time with their families and friends, practicing some outdoor recreational activities, as hunting, barbecuing, or picnicking. This inherited social image moved into open public spaces inside Arabian cities. Architecturally, it is required a delicate design that reflects this unique character and responds to its requirements. Since the 1970s, Jeddah Corniche development is according to universal style, regardless this special character of public recreational activities. It depended on beautification more than achieving functional areas that absorb the inherited Arabian behavior, which affects negatively the identity in design. The research attempted to measure the identity of the public space in Jeddah Corniche according to its traditional image of recreational activities. The methodology depended on avoiding subjective evaluation by measuring the identity of the urban elements according to the urban qualities that help in fulfilling the community unique requirement, also examining them according to the urban literature that serves a specific behavior. Results and recommendations serve studies of development processes to achieve identity in design.
Keywords
Jeddah Corniche, Measuring Identity, Urban Qualities, Urban Literature, Urban Evaluating Process.
Disciplines
Architecture | Arts and Humanities | Education | Engineering
Recommended Citation
El- Sayed Yoseph, Walaa
(2018)
"MEASURING PUBLIC SPACES IDENTITY IN JEDDAH CORNICHE,"
Architecture and Planning Journal (APJ): Vol. 24:
Iss.
1, Article 7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54729/2789-8547.1022
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