International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 12

Architectural effect of Islamiciwan and triple arched facade on the planning of historical houses, (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia as example)

  • Author:
  • Mahmoud Ahmed Darwish
  • Total Page Count: 31
  • Page Number: 361 to 391

Professor of Islamic Archaeology, Minia University, Main Road-Shalaby Land-Minia, Minya

Online published on 24 April, 2018.

Abstract

This paper deals with architectural planning characteristics of the houses of Jeddah, and patterns that reflect mainly for planning models of houses, in terms of the number of interfaces each house, which can vary from a home with a single interface to the home of all four interfaces, where the pattern is a single facade house number (507), style houses with façades Bakhsh number (508–509) and Al-joukhindar, Waqf Al-Shafi'i, the style with three interfaces Nour and all Ba'eshen, and style with four interfaces as house Aal Nassif and Al-Sharbatly. Also, elements of architectural planning, triple-planning unit and triple arched façade. The importance of research is to highlight the importance of houses of Jeddah as a ring of architectural evolution of Islamic houses, in terms of the spread component of the planning witch Iwan and triple arched façade. Search follows the analytical method, to study architectural planning for these houses, to get to identify the cultural and architectural role of Jeddah.

Keywords

Iwan, architectural elements, triple arched façade, Jeddah, Islamic houses