The Students of the Department of Environmental Architecture at College of Architecture and Planning of IAU Participated in the Development of the External Spaces of the Housing units of Wahat-Mada in Dammam,
To meet the community requirements, the students of the Department of Environmental Architecture at College of Architecture and Planning of IAU participated in the development of the external spaces of the housing units of Wahat-Mada in Dammam, one of the projects of Charity Society for Orphans Care (Benaa)in the Eastern Region in collaboration with Development Housing.
The Dean of the College, Dr. Tariq bin Ibrahim Al-Rawaf, explained that a group from the 5th year students submitted design proposals included creative ideas for the external spaces of the housing units. They divided the external spaces into 3 parking spaces, and 2 for playgrounds and outdoor recreation where each of these spaces is located between two of the 6 residential buildings under the supervision of Dr. Abdul-Baqi Al-Tisan, Dr. Muhammad Al-Abdullah, Dr. Saeed Al-Owais, and Engineer Ahmed Al-Tuwaijri. These projects were evaluated by Dr. Tofail Al-Yousef, Mr. Abdullah Al-Khalidi, General Manager of Benna charitable society, and Eng. Khaled Al-Salouli from the Mimar Association, as well as Eng. Osama Al-Houb.
Dr. Al-Rawaf stated “This effective participation comes per mission of the university and the college as well as to achieve the Kingdom’s vision 2030 aiming to raise the quality of life in urban areas and based on the principle of the importance of practicing specialization via real projects benefit both; the students and the community, and to achieve the goal of strengthening community partnership” while Dr. Abdul-Baqi Al-Taisan, the course coordinator, stated “ This project came as a result for cooperation between Mimar Association and Benaa stressing that the students presented sustainable and modern design solutions match the nature of the social, cultural and economic population in an area of approximately 21,000 square meters.
Meanwhile, Mr. Abdullah Al-Khalidi, General Director of Benaa Society, stated that the project consists of six identical residential towers, each tower contains eight floors, and in each tower there are 47 apartments with a total of 282 apartments. It is noting that Benaa Society supervises 3 towers of 119 housing units.
