The Islamic University – Gaza

Faculty of Engineering

Department of Architecture

A Presentation About :A Presentation About :

24 North Jeddah Office Complex24 North Jeddah Office Complex

Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaJeddah, Saudi Arabia

PRESENTED BY : SHADI A. Al JAZZAR

SUPERVISED BY : ARCH. HOSAM DAWOOD

ARCH. AMJAD SKEIK

PRESENTATION LANGUGE : English , Arabic

THE DATE : 24/2/2010

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Recipient of the Aga Khan Award for 2007

The design for this office development divides the linear (27 x 230 m) site into five blocks.

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The abstract mass treatment of the two end blocks pays homage to primordial desertarchitecture, whereas the design of the three middle modular units rethinks the Miessei typology of the glass office block in relation to the specific site.

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The designers believe that Islamic culture in general needs to ‘complement itsstriving for things past’ with an active participation in ‘universal’ intellectual production.

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The building envelopes are a combination of natural stone, Alucobond aluminium sheet cladding and thermal glazing.

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-The story of this project contextual , simultaneously universal and specific . At time of global concern for sustainable habitats , Except for few examples , the contemporary development of Jeddah's commercial/ office architecture is characterized with stripped building standards . environmentally irresponsible kitsch-formal practices that betray both old and new traditions , becoming self incriminating portrayals of orientalist claims of cultural poverty combined with excess that Edward said so eloquently refuted .

BACKGROUND

المشروع- يحاول ، المستديمة البيئة في العالمي االهتمام ظل في ، المشروع قصة ، جدة في اإلدارية و التجارية المباني عمارة به أصيبت الذي المعماري النزيف وقف

و ، الحديثة و القديمة المعمارية الطرز خيانة و مراعاتها، عدم و البيئة خيانة حيثالمكان . ثقافة إلى االلتفات دون مبانيهم في األخرين تقليد

- The site , 21 M * 230 M stretch of land, is part of a narrow linear fragment separating the grains of a suburban neighborhood fabric on west from the high speed artery to the east . the site's location , narrow and linear proportions , East-West solar orientation, along with a client request for potential construction phasing and marketing , raised urban , pragmatic and Ecological issues that became formative to the Architectural resolution .

SITE ANALYSIS

The design Divided the site into five blocks . with three modular speculative office buildings in the middle , differentiated at either end through two cubic blocks that phenomenally anchors the building in its desert environment .

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The design of the modular blocks operationally places a linear service core on the west side , allowing for critical planning depth for the office space and creating a thermal buffer that reduces heat gain on the western side .

MASTER GROUND FLOOR PLAN

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with the protective building fabric to the west generates an intended existential edge to the neighboring residential fabric .

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Echoing primoridial desert architecture , the minimalist treatments of the building establishes an abstract

environmental narrative that sequentially unfolds in

differentiated instances of the tectonic envelope and fenestration

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Detail, sharply delineating the East-West archetypal duality , heightening awareness of Ecological responses and Minimizing solar heat gain to reduce

active energy consumption , While preserving a sense of rationality and realist aesthetics that extends the office building's genealogy as a modernist

prototype.

جمع في المشروع هذا نجح بذلك ، واحد مبنى في الغرب و الشرق

، الحديث الطراز حلة لبس وغير ، أصيلة ، جميلة بطريقة

و الطاقة تحفظ و ، بيئية ، دخيلةو المكان إلى تنتمي و ، التاريخ

الثقافة .

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BLOCK C WEST ELEVATION

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West facade block A-B; anchoring the site

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East view

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Block C West : morphing orders and lifted core : weight-mass negations

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Differentiated tectonics: block B, C, D. Typical east-south corner meeting a shaded

curtain wall with the folded stone plane

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Crossing the site captured shadows between blocks A &

B

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West order : ecological & urban delimitation

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Modular blocks East. Differentiated rituals: movement, habitation, meditation

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Mediated pedestrian scale; typical entry transitions in blocks B, C, D

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Crossing the site; captured shadows

between blocks A & B

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Crossing the site; transitional space between blocks D & E; captured shadows, surreality

and mediated scales

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Light - movement patterns: middle level bridge space, block A

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Floating prayer planes; block B, C, D

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Meditation space: interior lobby looking

towards upper prayer terraces.

Typical blocks B, C, D

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Captured light: upper level bridge space. Block A towards B

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Conditioned light: exterior-interior transitions; lobby space, blocks B,C,D

REFERENCES

-www.diyar.com

- Aga Khan Trust for Culture

THANKSFOR

YOUR ATTENTION

With my regards

SHADI A. ALJAZZAR

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