Concepts Mediterranean traditional architecture Common, alive - - PDF document

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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

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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)

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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

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Partnership of the projet Project structure

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S.I Knowledge and methodology

Methodology, strategy and work tools for rehabilitation

S.II Training

Knowledge transfer of the experts’ networks

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S.III Pilot operations

Starting the introduction of methods and knowledge

Regional conference

Conclusion and dissemination of Project results

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S.I Knowledge and Methodologies

Objective

To help the rehabilitation of the traditional ways of Mediterranean dwelling, to guarantee the perpetuation

• f 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

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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
• peration
• 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
• peration
• Dissemination of the method to all the partners

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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.

Experiences of urban rehabilitation and construction

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

• f 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.

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Regional Symposium RehabiMed Bulletin

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RehabiMed website Website: Menu

RehabiMed

What is RehabiMed? Working countries Press file

Bulletin

Suscription to the Bulletin Archive of published bulletins

Activities

RehabiMed activities Other activities

Technical area

Urban management Building rehabilitation Experiences

Pilot operations

Lefkara (Cyprus) Cairo (Egypt) Kairouan (Tunisia) Marrakech (Morocco)

Databases

International experts Specialised companies Rehabilitation products

Downloads

RehabiMed documents Other documents

Legislation

International By country

Bibliography

Documentation centre: Database for free and guided consultations Bibliography

Links

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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.

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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

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