Réhabilitation des DJINAĀ AL-FAḤṢ

Abstract

The city can be assimilated to a complex product that changes through the time, undergoing some changes due to some factors; ideological, sociological, economic and cultural order. Therefore, we can qualify it as being the reflection of the identity of its constructors and its occupants. The Djinān Faḥṣ of Al-Djazāīr, are part of our cultural heritage, they are witnesses of a human establishment representing a mode to occupy a specific space and reflect the identity of our society in a determined period. Initially the Djinān Al-Faḥṣ were located outside of the surrounding wall of the Medina of Al-Djazāīr, to the territory periphery (Faḥṣ Al-Djazāīr) from where their appellation. They sheltered the functions: of habitats, welcomes and leisure. The mutation of this territory began during the colonization. Victims of destruction, expropriation, and transformations, the Djinān Al-Faḥṣ of Al-Djazāīr recovers currently sunk in the urban web of Algiers city in permanent extension, therefore, their original functions meet out of date. The absence of a real political will for their safeguard and enhancement exposed them to the negative actions of a population ignoring the historic and cultural importance of this fundamental common identity, and to the irreversible effects of the nature. Before these facts, several questions are asked that sums up through this problematic: What is the intervention’s strategy to put in place for the safeguard and the enhancement of our Djinān while placing this action in a sustainable development strategy? The urban and patrimonial policies are questioned again, a strategy of an integrated rehabilitation of the Djinān Al-Faḥṣ in the city of Algiers can be the solution to those problems, it is what we will try to verify through this research