Adaptive Design Guidelines for Health-based Promenades in Jeddah City

Due to the increasing prevalence of diseases spread worldwide through sedentary lifestyles, open spaces and promenade designs are becoming more popular and receiving attention to increase people's physical activity and improve their health. This research aims to establish and examine new health-based design guidelines for promenades in Jeddah, to help people get rid of Sick Neighbourhood Syndromes and specific diseases such as obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, bone diseases, and blood pressure. Analytical literature research, precedent analysis, case study analysis, field survey, and simulation are the main methods used to achieve the research goal. The results showed that 10 factors should be considered to ensure and maintain a health-based oriented promenade in Jeddah that can positively affect people's health and performance and avoid the risk of pandemics such as COVID-19. Results also revealed the thriving need for the devised guidelines to be applied, in addition to the other ten recommended factors. The results are limited to Jeddah City as a representative of the Hot Arid Zone. It is recommended to take it for further study to validate the twenty factors

Department

Architecture

Publisher

Horizon Research Publishing

Sponsor

Effat University