The Taif Municipality confirmed its tireless efforts to address the visual distortion in the mountainous environment of the Huda and Shafa tourist axes, which are two of the most prominent tourist sites in the Kingdom to contain the dissonance in colors with the environmental environment, as the phenomenon of visual distortion is a cumulative issue resulting from an architectural tradition that is not related to the environment and culture of the place, and the visual treatment aims to improve the colors of buildings with the selection and distribution of a color list suitable for the natural environment to maintain their harmony together in a way that does not affect the overall environmental form.

<This came in the Secretariat's review of the completed stages of the project during the meeting of the Makkah Tourism Development Council, which was chaired by His Royal Highness Prince Khalid Al-Faisal, Advisor to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, Governor of Makkah and Chairman of the Council in the region, and Taif Municipality indicated that this project comes within the efforts to activate the memorandum of understanding between the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs represented by Taif Municipality and the General Authority for Tourism and National Heritage, and the project works to address visual distortion in Huda and Shafa. <In this regard, Taif Municipality Secretary M. Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Mukhraj confirmed that the Secretariat contracted with a team of experts from King Abdulaziz University and Taif University to prepare an integrated study of the project on the urban, architectural and site coordination level, including two phases, the first phase «treatment strategy and photographic survey», and the second phase «design treatments», and the Taif Secretariat put the proposals of this study into practice, through what has been allocated within its budget of financial amounts for the project, and a specialized work team was formed for the project from the relevant departments and branches, to develop plans and strategies and to implement them on the ground.

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