Najdi architecture (Arabic: العمارة النجدية) is a vernacular architecture indigenous to the Najd region of modern-day Saudi Arabia. [1][2][3][4] The style flourished roughly between 13th and 18th centuries and is known for its desert adaptive urban patterns with low-contour earth-structured mudbrick buildings [5][6][7][8] that are characterized ...

These small openings do not have a purely decorative function but are arranged vertically, horizontally, or in stacks, creating a pattern on the facade with different dispositions and densities...

We have recently performed an in-depth study of five Nadji settlements: Ad-Diriya, Sudus, Alkhabra, Ushaiqer, and old Riyadh, in a region in Saudi Arabia. The external form of the traditional settlement built environments mostly adopted a solid mass with a …

2023年6月19日 · Najd is the great central plateau of Saudi Arabia, of which Riyadh is the most important city and the capital. The contribution leads the architects to rethink the constructive and aesthetic approach in designing and constructing new architectures without forgetting the culture and historical context of reference.

Nadji settlements are now mostly uninhabited, this relationship between architectural elements and urban life may be understood by examining the built environment that remains today. We have recently performed an in-depth study of five Nadji settlements: Ad-Diriya, Sudus, Alkhabra, Ushaiqer, and old Riyadh, in a region in Saudi Arabia. The

2021年4月1日 · Examining the architectural element from the perspective process of making them helped to identify several concepts and principles that directly influenced the traditional Najdi built environment.

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This concept can be seen, for example, in the Central Region (Najd) architecture in Saudi Arabia, where the element of triangle 'furjah' development by local inhabitants to be a utilitarian...

Architects have taken care of using the triangular shape as a geometrical element in the composition of elevations that resembles and determine the architectural style for both Nubian and Najdi architectures.

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