SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN OF HERITAGE BUILDING STRATEGIC INVESTMENT OF ADAPTIVE REUSE IN NORTHERN JORDAN "SAMAD VILLAGE" VS ALULA IN SAUDIA ARABIA
Authors:   Department of Cultural Resources Management and Conservation, School of Archaeology and Tourism - The University of Jordan, 21162 Amman, Jordan, SEISEH Ruba , ABU ALHASSAN Yazan ,   Department of Cultural Resources Management and Conservation, School of Archaeology and Tourism - The University of Jordan, 21162 Amman, Jordan, HUSSEIN MOHAMED Athar ,   Department of Interior Architecture, Faculty of Art and Design - The British University in Egypt, 11837 Cairo, Egypt, FARHAN ALSOUKHNI Nouralhuda ,   Royal Commission for AlUla, Al Sukhayrat, AlUla 43522, Saudi Arabia, ABED ALMASHWKHI Muath ,   Royal Commission for AlUla, Al Sukhayrat, AlUla 43522, Saudi Arabia, AL SEKHANEH Wassef ,   Department of Conservation and Management of Cultural Resources, Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology - Yarmouk University, 21162 Irbid, Jordan
Published: October 2024

This study focuses on the traditional heritage buildings in northern Jordan in the village of Samad, and Alula in Saudia Arabia, the study investigates the traditional heritage buildings management, restoration, intervention, reuse, and revitalization of these buildings to serve as a model for the neighboring villages. The preservation of traditional architecture is an important for adaptive reuse. The process is complex due to its intrinsic characteristics, charter and custom that are associated with its setting. In the study, the authors are contemplated different examples in which they tried to present a decisive conservation plan to restore the traditional buildings respecting their integrity relying on the adaptive reuse strategy with the scope of a holistic approach to safeguard the significance of the building's material and intangible properties. It addresses the unique values of each individual building, its context, the conservation of its material properties, its historical, and its aesthetic values. This work aims to take this conservation issue into the future to manage the maintenance of vernacular buildings in Samad. This is a dialectical process between pre-existence and the critical attitude taken to give these heritage buildings a new and much needed for re-functioned adaptive reuse. In other words, the positive variation lies in the different perspectives on the building materials and their implications. As for the restoration/intervention dilemma, the study analyzes the different adverse action methods within international charters and conventions. Finally, the title refers to the Samad case study, i.e. the analysis of a building that is a focal point for the rehabilitation of abandoned houses and this work takes one house as a representative of all the houses in the village. The house is located in the historic center of the village, which will be the main landmark and will give others a great opportunity to start restoring their own houses. The authors during their frequent surveys have a great chance to discover the studied house and explore it during their reconnaissance visits to compare it to the villages in northern Saudia, Alula as example. This comparision area will be the first start in northern Saudia, where Alula village is located.