Concepts Mediterranean traditional architecture Common, alive - PDF document

RehabiMed follows and enhances a network and 2 projects • CORPUS, which aimed at understanding if traditional mediterranean architecture was a relevant and homogeneous concept • CORPUS LEVANT, which entered the practice in concrete details 1

RehabiMed seeks • Increasing activity in rehabilitation as a sustainable development factor • Improvement of life conditions of a broad population spectrum • Preservation of the historical and cultural identity of the traditional architecture heritage • Creation of synergies and transnational networks of experts Concepts Mediterranean traditional architecture • Common, alive because it is occupied, pre-industrial and a tradition result • Built by craftsmen with local materials and expertise • Expression of a community’s culture • Built on the areas around the Mediterranean sea Rehabilitation • Large range of actions to recuperate a lost function • Different rehabilitation levels from the urban one to the building • Balance between technical aspects and hereditary values • Bear in mind sustainable criteria (economical, social and environmental) 2

Two weights and measures Target public • Politicians and government experts (at national, regional and local levels) • The agents of the rehabilitation sector (architects, engineers, building contractor, craftsmen, manufacturers, academics, …) • The users and inhabitants of rehabilitated urban areas and buildings 3

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Partnership of the projet Project structure 5

S.I Knowledge and methodology Methodology, strategy and work tools for rehabilitation S.II Training Knowledge transfer of the experts’ networks 6

S.III Pilot operations Starting the introduction of methods and knowledge Regional conference Conclusion and dissemination of Project results 7

S.I Knowledge and Methodologies Objective To help the rehabilitation of the traditional ways of Mediterranean dwelling , to guarantee the perpetuation of its hereditary and historical values and the quality of dwellers’ way of life How Developing the protocols that collect the principles of action as a practical guide to the different agents in every step of the rehabilitation process by experts’ networks S.I Knowledge and Methodologies Networks of experts • Urban rehabilitation management • Building rehabilitation methodology • Experiences of urban rehabilitation and construction 8

Urban rehabilitation management The network understands the actions on the urban fabric as a whole of pluridisciplinary actions which goal is the environmental, economical, social and physical rehabilitation Objective: • Defining the precise strategy to plan, encourage, control and direct the urban rehabilitation actions • Setting up work methods • Making a specific application of the method in every pilot operation • Dissemination of the method to all the partners Building rehabilitation methodology The network understands rehabilitation as a whole comprehension of the building and its problematics Objective: • Creation of a methodology and work tools , according the Mediterranean experience, based on « diagnosis » • Setting up work methods • Making a specific application of the method in every pilot operation • Dissemination of the method to all the partners 9

Experiences of urban rehabilitation and construction A network of experts is working to identify and document Experiences of urban and building rehabilitation Objective : to create a database that showcases Mediterranean experience in the field of rehabilitation in a broad sense. Traditional forms of habitat We refer to traditional forms of habitat in Mediterranean, as the natural, often unplanned way, in which humankind has settled in the Mediterranean territory throughout history—that is, the basic expression of the culture of different societies, their way of living in community and their relations with nature and landscape. Not only referring to single constructions but also to interventions that form part of an urban or territorial ensemble , with its streets or tracks, its inhabitants, etc., defining a traditional human and built environment that is the reflection of a history as well as of a way of life and settlement in the territory. These are ways of constructing the habitat (villages, historic centres, etc.) that are facing tragic situations today , subject to a constant loss of their social and cultural character, and threatened by intense degradation due to the urban processes that emerged with industrialization. 10

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RehabiMed website Website: Menu RehabiMed Databases What is RehabiMed? International experts Working countries Specialised companies Press file Rehabilitation products Bulletin Suscription to the Bulletin Downloads Archive of published bulletins RehabiMed documents Other documents Activities RehabiMed activities Other activities Legislation International Technical area By country Urban management Building rehabilitation Experiences Bibliography Documentation centre: Database for free and guided Pilot operations consultations Lefkara (Cyprus) Bibliography Cairo (Egypt) Kairouan (Tunisia) Links Marrakech (Morocco) 12

S.II Training and knowledge transfer Seminars : • Cyprus. Urban landscape. Lefkara • Egypt. Craftsmanship. Islamic Cairo • Morocco. Social action. Marrakech • Tunisie. Sustainable tourism. Kairouan S.III Pilot operations 1. Heritage workshop 2. Construction site • Lefkara (Cyprus). Rehabilitation and urban landscape • Cairo (Egypt). Rehabilitation and craftsmanship • Marrakech (Morocco). Rehabilitation and social action. • Kairouan (Tunisia). Rehabilitation and sustainable tourism. 13

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My role in this session • More sensible than scientific or learned • More cultural than technical • Doubting is better than asserting • An environment, which must be regarded as multifarious rather than unique • Its future is not in protection, but in use and relevant transformation 15

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