تأصيل القيم المعمارية التراثية في العمارة المعاصرة : دراسة تحليلية للعمارة التراثية بالباحة في المملكة العربية السعودية لتأصيلها في العمارة المعاصرة

Abstract AR

A rich cultural and urban heritage has been accumulated through successive ages and
generations on the land of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, especially in Al-Baha Area, whose
features are still clear and its impacts are existing nowadays.

Such heritage is reflecting the
society's features, physical, environmental, and social merits, and as a result of the rapid
changes in all aspects of life, architectural trends and ideas are emerged, which not much
consistent with the values of society known with the civilization history.

Hence, and to link
the values of the past with the present, it is required to study the values of this local heritage
and rooting it in the contemporary buildings by a deepen and balanced local vision matching
with the present capacities and the past authenticity, so this study aims to draw out and study
these values which including many systems of environmental treatments that could be rooted
in contemporary architectural works that keep with age potentials and culture of the society.

It
also emphasized the continuity of Al Baha civilization identity, as well it provides and
embodies certain architectural templates, which represent attempts of intellectual integration
between heritage and contemporary in an attempt to create a sense of belonging and
emphasize the architectural identity of Al Baha city.

Furthermore, the study has adopted the
analytical inductive methodology, progressive from the theoretical approach for studying the
concepts related to heritage, contemporary, and their relevant concepts of values.

Then, the study adopted the empirical approach through analyzing the contemporary concepts
and trends in Al Baha to analyzing the most significant characteristics and values of Al Baha
heritage architecture.

The research concludes in identifying the architectural values that could
be rooted at Al Baha contemporary architecture, providing a proposal enables us to solve the
dilemma of local urbanization and architecture, besides arising the functionality of
construction for achieving the contemporary architectural identity to Al Baha City.