L’ornementation dans les halls d’immeubles de rapport Algérois Identification et Inventaire

Abstract

The lobby as a reception area, crossing or intermediate in the buildings of the XIXth century, it was mainly a space of representation. Expressing the status of its builders and owners while affirming the status of the latter. It is as a support for this architectural and architectonic richness that the hall interests us in this research. These ornamental elements, by lack of knowledge of their historical and artistic value, disappear every day in Algiers during rehabilitation operations altering their authenticity. Our objective is to identify and inventory the ornamental systems in a corpus of 12 entrance halls that we have chosen in relation to the evolving moments of the center of Algiers and in relation to their original state. This identification will allow, in a second step, to analyze the ornamental degree of each entrance hall and to establish a classification in relation to their ornamental wealth.