| Author(s) | Mohammed Abdullah Eben Saleh |
| Affiliation | Professor, College of Architecture and Planning King Saud Vniversi& Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Title | The Rehabilitation of Existing Facilities in a Defined Site: |
| Source | Journal of King Saud University. Architecture & Planning. Volume 10, No 1. (1998/1418) |
| Abstract | The Saudi Arabian economic boom atIer 13948 (19756) is distinguished by most of the governmental organizations in undertaking building, restoring, and rehabilitating enormous facilities to fulfill the multivariant needs of spaces and functions. The undertaking was accompanied by tangible economic, cultural, technological, and demographic changes, causing intensive development and demand for new facilities to adapt demanding functions coinciding with these changes. The new functions are requiring new buildings or pressing for rehabilitation of existing ones, in an attempt to initiate physical balance between building expansions and the coinciding changes to proportionate the impact. The usage of the facilities was accompanied by the expansion of most of these facilities established unbalance between the demand and development. It caused spontaneous growth in the site of the facilities. This created unbalance in the aesthetic and tbnctional performance of the facilities, in spite of high cost paid to the maintenance and operation of the facilities. |
