King Abdullah Medical City
Description
King Abdullah Medical city
Saudi Arabia
Research paper of four pages APA style
The research should include:
• General context ( general information about project – population – infrastructure – size – location – access to the city – aim of the project and why Saudi Arabia is interested to make this kind of projects – how it serves the city “Makkah” )
• Project ( plans – urban planning – project description – design purposes )
• 2 Similar case studies
• Conclusion and discussions
• This assignment addresses the following learning outcomes:
A. Explore emergent principles for the design of 21st century cities and housing around the world, and identify political, economic, social and ecological forces impacting urban space and the built environment. [Critical thinking]
B. Examine and comprehend the fundamental principles present in relevant precedents and to make choices regarding the incorporation of such principles into architecture and urban design projects. [NAAB: Use of precedents]
C. Identify the relationship between human behavior, the natural environment and the design of the built environment. [NAAB: Human behavior]
Assignment:
The groups should present a paper which is divided into four sections in addition to an abstract and introduction in the beginning and a conclusion and bibliography at the end
1. Context; which looks at the general context of the project surveys the demographics social conditions economic conditions the financial conditions pertaining to the project and justifying the rationale behind it’s initiation
2. The project; this section looks into a description of the project highlighting the most important features weather infrastructural architectural morphological social economic functional and understanding its urban impact
3. Case studies: comparing the project similar projects where the regional international comparison could be in terms of scale urban impact economy social impact functional impact aesthetic architectural impact etc.
4. The discussion comparing king Abdallah to the presented the case studies i’m drawing inportant conclusions
Students are expected to diversify their sources of information whether articles, newspaper clippings ,websites, interviews with the project leaders and project end-users, experiential mapping etc.
Point Distribution – Total 20 pts
Context 2 points
Project 4 points
Case Studies 5 points
Argument and Discussion 5 point
Writing skills (structure/vocabulary/grammar/style) 2 point
References 2 points
