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Jeddah's old city architecture is characterized with its wonderful wooden windows (Roshan) and coral stone white walls. The narrow roads are part of a net work of veins connecting the old city shaded by the closeness of houses which help currents of air to flow easily and decrease the heat that Jeddah is known of.  Jeddah's Old City Architecture The Roshan is an important and inevitable element in Jeddah’s Old City architecture. It has esthetical and functional benefits suiting the environmental and social setting; it gives shade to the road beneath, where people seek to run away from the sun’s heat, and it gives privacy to the people living inside and looking upon the road through it. The Roshan is not just a complicated carved wood work, it has also environmental advantages. By opening a lower apertures (according to the direction of air) the cool air gets in where the hot air goes out through an upper round aperture; keeping the room well aired and shaded. 
  On the roof a terrace can be designed, with wooden roof and open close repetitive windows called Al Tairama (for it is at the flying bird’s level).   *K E Design work *K E Design work
© 2006 K.E. DESIGN.
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