HISTORIC
JEDDAH
جدة التاريخية — عرض ترميم
A coral-stone house,
given a new life.
In 2025 AMSY Group prepared an offer for the restoration of heritage buildings in Al-Balad, the old town of Jeddah. The proposal takes one of its tall coral-stone houses — three bays of green timber roshan on the street, a carved entrance between turned columns, lime-plastered walls banded with teak — and restores it as it was, then gives it a cultural use: an arts foundation with galleries, workshops and classrooms, a few guest rooms, and a roof terrace for a majlis and a small restaurant. A second scheme shows a neighbouring house as lodging and studios for visiting artists.
The studies, the restoration and re-use concept for the house — façade, rooms, roof terrace and the artists’ lodging — the visualisations, the drawings and the BOQ (bills of quantities) for the offer were prepared by Mohamed Bider for AMSY Group.
- Studies
- Restoration & re-use concept
- Façade & roshan
- Interiors & roof terrace
- Visualisations
- Technical drawings
- BOQ — bills of quantities
Storeys of coral stone and timber, restored.
Full-height roshan bays on the street front.
Re-use schemes: an arts foundation and an artists’ lodging.
Tender proposal — not built.
In Al-Balad,
old Jeddah.
Al-Balad is the historic core of Jeddah, a UNESCO World Heritage site of coral-stone tower houses with timber roshan, lanes and small squares near the Red Sea. The offer covered houses in the district; the house itself is not named here, so the map marks Al-Balad, not the plot.
- 1Al-Balad, Historic Jeddah
- 2Nasseef House
- 3Bab Makkah
- 400 m walking radius
- District
- Al-Balad, Historic Jeddah (UNESCO World Heritage)
- Building
- Four-storey coral-stone house with timber roshan
- Status
- Restoration offer, 2025 — not built
Studies &
drawings.
The street front drawn for restoration, then the house taken apart and cut through to show the new uses floor by floor. Select a drawing.
Materials
& colours.
The restoration keeps to the materials of the house: coral stone (manqabi) under lime plaster, teak tie beams and floor joists, green-painted timber roshan and shutters, patterned cement tiles and terracotta inside, with Hijazi rugs, woven reed shades and brass lanterns for the rooms and the roof.
The façade,
restored.
The three roshan bays repaired and repainted in their original green, the carved door and its stone surround cleaned, and the front lit softly from below at night, with lanterns at the steps.
Inside
the house.
Behind the door, the stone arches, timber ceilings and tie beams are kept bare and lit along their lines. The ground floor becomes the foundation’s hall and gallery; the upper rooms take classrooms, a studio, a small library corner and a few guest rooms.
On the roof.
The roof terrace becomes a majlis under a reed shade and a woven Hijazi canopy, with low seating on rugs, brass lanterns and the small green timber pavilion kept as it was — set up by day as an open-air restaurant.
Artists’
lodging.
The second scheme turns a neighbouring house into lodging and studios for visiting artists: a long workshop under the beamed ceiling, a small gallery lined with the original timber panelling, and a reception at the door.
Restoration offer by AMSY Group, Historic Jeddah, 2025 — a tender proposal; not built. Sources: the proposal’s visualisations and façade elevation, with studies drawn from them.
The studies, the restoration and re-use concept for the house — façade, rooms, roof terrace and the artists’ lodging — the visualisations, the drawings and the BOQ (bills of quantities) for the offer were prepared by Mohamed Bider for AMSY Group.