Mohamed Elbelkasy

Developing a historical city center leads to city resilience and sustainable heritage conservation; changing the social fabric is a fundamental problem that affects historical and heritage areas. As a result of Jeddah’s development, the community of the heritage area changed to another without the same interest or appreciation for the region’s heritage. After listing it as a world heritage, the government is taking care of many conservation projects for Historic Jeddah. The research aims to evaluate a proposed project to reverse the last decade’s social changes of the local community as a step in achieving historic center sustainability. The scope of this proposal is to select adaptive reuse of the listed historic buildings and provide the area with state-of-the-art services. This proposed project will attract the targeted community to return, which will achieve the research purpose. The research followed three different methodologies; through a theoretical approach, Jeddah city urb...

The architectural design studio could be considered with no doubt as the principal pillar of the architectural education process, and it plays one of the most important roles in developing this process. Regardless of the rise of the use of computing in architecture profession, the main focus -at least in developing countries- is on presentations as compared to other realms of the practice. The current research presents an experimental model to use one of the computer applications as a designing tool in different architectural design stages, starting with creating and developing a concept to final stages of project design, including project environmental studies. The research methodology can be summarized in the theoretical preface that explains stages of the architectural design process and with reference to computer applications in each design process stage, and then it'll consent with the experimental model, definition of the used software and applied mechanisms with the display of application model output which can be analyzed and evaluated.

Investment is considered one of the most important potentials of the development of heritage areas at the present. To ensure the achievement of this goal, investment operations should be directed to serve the heritage area, but there are some areas those have special characters or circumstances that let them independent to this factor, because these areas are unique with a set of features that are not found in any heritage area or other historical ones, including the holy city of Makkah, which its privacy comes from its place in the hearts of Muslims and its relation to the worship and rituals, so when dealing with it there should be a comprehensive study of the investment benefits and its ability to serve visitors of the Holy Mosque, without prejudice to the sanctity of the place and can therefore be influenced by architectural heritage in the central area surrounding the Holy Mosque, and this research paper puts an important question; how the investment in the area serve the herit...

ABSTRACT There is no doubt that, the architectural design studio is the main core of the architectural teaching process and it plays an important role in developing this process. Despite developing importance of computer in architecture field, it concentrates in several kinds of architectural presentation. While computer architectural applications can provide several tools and mechanisms in teaching design process, so the research presents an experimental model to use one of computer applications in architectural design stages, starting with creating and developing concept to final stages of project presentation, including project environmental studies. The research methodology can be summarized in theoretical preface that explains stages of architectural design process and its relationship with computer applications in each design process stage, then it'll be submitted to the experimental model, definition of the using software and applications mechanisms with exposure to application model output which can be analyzed and evaluated.