COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
Mountain Dwelling: Accommodating the Masses at Mina, Mecca - the Muslims Holiest Land
Creator:
Alshahrani, Adnan Yahya A.
Subject:
Thesis (M.U.D.) -- Urban Design
Subject:
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Urban Design
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Abstract:
Mecca is the most important city in the Islamic world. All Muslins come to Mecca from all over the world to worship Allah (God), and performance the Hajj (pilgrimage) at least once in their entire life. For five days, pilgrims stay and roam in different sites within Mecca boundary in the Mashar area that include Arafat, Muzdalifah, and Mina (The tent city). Mina is a city of tents that accommodates around two million pilgrims during the season of the Hajj. The number of pilgrims is in increase every year it reached three million pilgrims last year, and to meet the increasing spatial of housing demands of pilgrimages in the tent city, the Saudi government is planning to accommodate eight million visitors a month in Mecca city and the Mashar area. The focus area in this research is the housing in Mina area, where pilgrims spent only four days of their pilgrimage trip and the rest of the year the tent city is vacant. Moreover, it discuses the use of Mina to accommodate pilgrims and visitors during the entire year, not only in the Hajj season.
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date:
2014-05
Format:
PDF : 65 p. : ill