Team 4

Urban and Architectural Rehabilitation

In the debate on the city, the idea of ​​building "the city on the city" is today the basis of any urban intervention, whatever the sites and whatever the dates of construction of the districts concerned. In this context, work on preserved buildings is the main component of urban projects. In terms of construction economy, building conversions generally offer significant cost reductions, provided that certain conditions are met, relating in particular to the good match between the new function and the existing form. How to enhance the land and real estate potential of industrial or agricultural wastelands embedded in the fabric of the city of Algiers such as the districts of al Hamma, Hussein Dey or el Harrach which have become new urban centres. The requalification of the industrial heritage of Algiers through an innovative and visible project likely to stimulate a new dynamic of development and value creation. As for the question of the requalification of an old or colonial urban fabric, it will be approached in its entirety. Beyond the architectural expressions that will be identified, the project will encompass the urban functionality of neighborhoods or parts of towns by trying to find the interdependencies, the economic and travel logics as well as the elements of urbanity that underlie the framework of the plot and its servicing while considering the different types in order to create the national directory with a view to its requalification. This approach will make it possible to grasp the particularities of the fabrics and the meanings of the old nuclei from their genesis and in their evolution: what are then the survivals and the functions that have disappeared, how were the urban logics constructed? What are the poles of attraction. What are the development cycles? This urban planning approach of a significant sample of old cores, houses, buildings and blocks, in connection with the urban fabric of belonging will make it possible to register the requalification and the rehabilitation in a program of economic revitalization and innovative approach by putting in places urban interconnections in a given region. Examples: Miliana, Médéa, Cherchell, Khangat sidi Nagi, Sidi okba, Temacine, Urban rehabilitation as a development concept. The rehabilitation and conversion of abandoned real estate potential (wasteland and urban farms. The innovative urban project in pre-existing fabrics. Cataloging urban typologies, Cataloging architectural typologies Developing teaching programs and research themes in relation to the reality on the ground .