Analysis of Activities in Large Spaces: Western Piazza of the Holy Mosque as a Sample Research

Piazza are designed within the urban textile to practice certain activities according to their location, and mosques are buildings that have been allocated surrounding piazzas. The Western Piazza of the Holy Mosque in Makkah is one of the most important piazzas surrounding it, where it connects the building of the Holy Mosque with a large number of residential neighborhoods in the central region of Makkah. This piazza has witnessed some developments affecting the activities practiced there. This Piazza, like other piazzas surrounding the Holy Mosque, witnessed a number of different activities that is related to the Holy Mosque. This paper presents a mechanism to analyze large spaces that experience various activities as well as analyzing activities that is engaged in this piazza in details and determine their location and frequency rate. This study found a concentration of congestion in specific locations, which will appoint decision makers to adjust the operational plans for the management of the crowds in order to ensure the break up of clusters and mitigate congestion, also found the focus of sleeping/resting people in other locations which will enable operators to place measures to limit this phenomenon. This study recommends redistributing prayer zones and identifying pathways; in addition, identifying con nimize unwanted activities in piazzas surrounding the Holy Mosque.centration sites of observers to address the bad manifestations and minimize unwanted activities in piazzas surrounding the Holy Mosque.