Les Immeubles de rapport néo-mauresques à Alger Etude architecturale du cartier de l'oriontale (Debussy)

Abstract

The Moorish Revival architecture is one of the trends of the colonial architecture that marked the late 19th and early 20th century. Its prestigious and emblematic monuments mark the urban landscape today. Heritage residential buildings neo Moorish Algiers is considerable but was not explored. The New residential Moorish architecture therefore requires the establishment of a directory of these buildings as well as the determination of their situation in order to grasp its importance. This research aims to understand the origin of neo Moorish applied to the Algiers apartment building. The subject research the origin of the adoption of the neo - Moorish fashion in residential architecture that is not unrelated to the British presence in Algiers. These British colonists have restored country houses from the Ottoman period and other villas had been built in the same style to suit their needs and requirements, would be responsible of the emergence of neo -Moorish style in residential architecture Algiers. This study allowsalsocapturing the demonstration of style, its variants and interpretations in the residential building in Algiers. Is it a fundamental interpretation of Moorish architecture in tenements or a fragment architecture that takes quotes from the Moorish decorative elements directory? There is also question of the study reports correlation of syncretism between local forms of organization of the residential architecture of obedience and those induced by the model of the metropolitan building Haussmann-style report. The neo -Moorish residential properties in Algiers is important, rich and have varied expressions. Its exploration has required an inventory of buildings neo Moorish report in Algiers and its suburbs in the listing. The inventory has allowed the identification of thirty buildings located in a scattered manner in the direction of development of the city of Algiers to the south. He also established a test mapping of neo -Moorish dwellings. A concentration of buildings neo Moorish report was found. These buildings are located in a neighborhood in upper Mustapha known as the district of the Oriental. This area is born after chunking the garden of a luxury hotel in Oriental decor frequented by wealthy colonists. A monographic study of this area is made from a significant body of neo Moorish buildings report. This corpus consists of twelve buildings on which an exhaustive study has been made. It has identified the aspects of distribution and spatial organization of buildings, facades expression through their composition as well as architectural and decorative elements which allowed detecting a typology of buildings.