- John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection
- Arthur Erickson fonds
- Middle East projects
- King Abdulaziz University
Where
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- Held by
- John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection via McGill University Archival Collections
- Dates
- [1980] (indexed as 1980)
- Level
- file
- Extent
- 17 drawings : 4 pencil on vellum, 13 ink on bond 368 slide photographs 13 photographs
- Scope & content
- File contains 17 drawings (8 plans, 9 exterior perspectives) and 381 photographs (368 slides [173 of drawings, 114 of model, 81 miscellaneous] 13 prints of model). The King Abdulaziz University interspersed academic facilities with residential compounds in a layout respecting traditional settlement patterns. The men's campus is separate from the women's campus on a 260 hectare site. The site is undeveloped and is a continuation of the Jeddah Coastal Plain, 6 km east of Jeddah's downtown core. The University locale is separated from the city's core by an existing airport and an existing residential area to the east. The university was designed to accommodate 17,000 students, 2,000 faculty, and 5,800 support staff. In addition to the academic facilities, the university has a mosque, a museum, an aquarium, an auditorium, and botanical gardens as cultural amenities to enrich the city. A central open space spine connects the east and the west sides of the entrance area through a linear system of landscaped and building-enclosed courtyards.
- Places
- Jiddah (Saudi Arabia)
- Location
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- Subjects
- Universities and colleges
- Genre / form
- Educational centers (buildings).; Built projects
- Harvested
- 2026-10-15T15:49:48Z · source datestamp 2024-11-13T18:48:59Z · ead