TAL ALHAWA Mountain Resort
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2022
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RAWAJBE, AMAL
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The mountain resort is located at the top of a mountain called “ Tal al-Hawa” according to the locals, which overlooks the steep mountain’s “ bilal’s mountains” covered with abra trees and at the same time overlooks the Valley of “Sajour”, the Plateau of Suicide , and the village of Al-Bathan which is considered as a tourist village , because it is characterized by the beauty of its nature and topography, where the visitor enjoys this view of the mountain resort and the fresh air that permeates the mountain.The project was developed after studying the local architecture of the area where this architecture developed in response to the rugged mountain topography and materials available locally so that the structure of the project benefits from mountain stones for retaining walls, slates for roofs and floors, wooden frames, and local stones of walls and this laid the basis of the project.. the idea was to design a modern tourist resort achieves comfort, enjoyment and full vision of users by using from local materials local materials was "redefining modern architecture with a local character of the area."The resort includes the main building, restaurant, spa and several chalets in a vast and steep location, all overlooking the Bilal Mountains, Wadi Sajour and the tourist village of Al-Bathan to meet the needs of the visitor where they enjoys in the public areas and containing a public swimming pool and sessions interspersed with trees with magnificent views in addition to barbeque places, children's play areas, chalets was distributed taking into account contour lines and scenic views which are 3 types, type for families consisting of 6 individuals and the second type for families of 4 and the third type of couple and are all reached by a street 6 meters wide.