JEDDAH MASTERPLAN RESIDENTIAL TOWERS

We refer to cultural and urban context and existing communication system. We also tend to meet vistas and conditions of well exposure. Planning both open roads and private green routes, squares, ponds, frontage buildings along main communication routes and spot construction at the back, we created a part of the city, that includes differential public spaces and various building height. The intention was to keep the ground level for pedestrians. That is why, there is an underground parking designed above the whole quartier.

The main purpose was to organize the space with harmony and urban order.

Supermarket building is situated at the main communication hub. Stores and other commercial units form a dynamic arcad-like building frontage along the main street. All together it build a natural acoustic barrier, that protects residential buildings located at its the back, in the norhtern part of the district. Roof of these buildings is supported by an attractive, arcad frontage, created in a human scale and in reference to Arabic traditional architecture.

The commercial building frontage is accentuated with a sport center building right in the middle. It characterizes with an open structure, that allows for free re-arangements. In the south part of the building, there is also a store department planned as an extension of commertial units, in the center part some sport facilities: the gym, sauna, swimming and spa pools with mud-baths, connected with entrance hall and coffee point. The northern part, where tennis courts and football pitch are planned, should be open-space.

17 storeys height residential buildings are situated in a green and peaceful part of a discrict. Firts two storeys of each are designed also for commertial premises. On every upper floors, there are only apartements located. They differ much within areas. Some of them offer a direct view of the Red Sea. Apartments on the highest storey are double floors.

Forms of residential towers are inspired by Hijazi, traditional style of Jeddah. Woooden shutters are modern parallel to traditional rowshans and mashrabiyas, that provided air ventilation, shade and privacy in historical Jeddah houses. Also dynamically designed, multifaceted facades provide interior extra shading, prevents from overheating, and offers high level of privacy. Semi-public space is raised from the ground level to form an open green floor. Roof gardens derive their forms from kharijas – traditional private roof terraces, created because of land limitations.