(Ebook) Transformation of Berber Traditional Planning and Living Spaces by Dr. ASMAA SAADA , Dr. DJAMEL DEKOUMI

(Ebook) Transformation of Berber Traditional Planning and Living Spaces by Dr. ASMAA SAADA , Dr. DJAMEL DEKOUMI

Most The Algerian Berber region was animated by a network of humansettlements built according to the urban model of the Islamic medina and itstraditional habitat of adobe. Various rural and urban development andtransformation of planning and living spaces have recently come under thepressure of rapid urban growth. This study aims to analyze and compareBerber domestic spaces across a sample of houses from Aures valley, thisregion of Algeria which presents distinctive geological, geographical andhistorical characteristics. The study will look, first at the houses, then atsimilarities and differences in space configuration in order to pose questionsof how this traditional architecture with its climatic and cultural solutionscould be utilized or transplanted in the new urban context. The study focusesparticularly on observing and analyzing different factors which influenceurban life like social patterns, family lifestyle, migration which may have ledto some modifications in the social structure. This attempt to analyse andcompare the physical structure of Berber housing and settlements in Algeriamight help to better understand the planning space organization and give usclues to the formulation of communities in the past; their culturally andclimatically significant design methodology has considerable relevance tocontemporary architecture. This study attempts to learn how the traditionalBerber built environment may be considered as a good example of an endproduct of an interaction between constant elements such as the religiousfactors, the climate, the landscape and changeable elements such aseconomic, technological and industrial means, that is to say a product of asocietal process.JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2019), 3(2), 28-34.https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2018.4698