Abstract
Contemporary built environments experience a vast number of factors due to globalization, which effected and influenced how the built form is generated and used. The relationship between the urban and the building levels is a crucial aspect that needs a thorough investigation to understand how these two levels can integrate and complement the built environment's overall identity. This paper examines the concept of access and its location within the urban fabric and how an access influenced the formation of physical and nonphysical threshold spaces to overcome the number of socio-cultural issues. Space Syntax convex map and justified access graphs were used to understand the connectivity, density, and integration of the access and the threshold space in relation to the overall built form.
Highlights
The access in the traditional Najdi built environment influenced and shares some of the urban principles, which brings the argument that the hierarchical order of spaces found at the urban level continued inside the house
By combining the three phases of analysis – access elements, convex map space relationships, and the justified access graph analysis – it is possible to say that the threshold space and its physical elements mostly control the semi-private spaces that are located inside the house and near the building access
After understanding the regulatory process mechanism of access, and how two types of entrances were generated to support the social, political, and economic life of its inhabitants, several elements appeared in the internal spaces and near the building access
Summary
The access (house entrance) in the traditional Najdi built environment influenced and shares some of the urban principles, which brings the argument that the hierarchical order of spaces found at the urban level continued inside the house. The objective here is to focus on understanding how the access to a building (house) is an element that increased the connectivity of and integration between the spatial and physical order and worked as a transitional element/space between the outside and inside spaces. The perceived meanings are related and depend these two phases is to help identify how the access may on how users approach the access itself either from the outside (external street) or from the inside domains (inside the house). The first meaning relates to how the generate transitional dual meanings and how the entrance as an element/space increases the organization of the spatial and physical order in the family of the house perceives the entrance from the public and private domains so later we have the ability.
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