L’escalier dans l’architecture résidentielle ottomane d’Alger

Abstract

This post-graduation memory is the result of a research that lasted nearly three years on the theme of the stairs in residential architecture Ottoman of Algiers. It is divided into five different sections: the theoretical framework, the methodological framework, followed by the study of positioning and orientation, and formal and functional analysis and finally the structural and ornamental analysis. Moreover, understanding the historical context of the building in height in the Ottoman era, gives us an idea necessitated to develop adequate steps to move from one level to another, depending on the type of traditional house. This design was still subject to a cross between the regencies of the empire of constructive point of view, structural and ornamental. However, this knowledge dates well before the Ottomans. He continued and developed during the period. But improved by indigenous manufacturer’s time he was at the origin of certain rules adopted in the design of this vertical circulation volume. Is that we are tempted to understand through a study of the stairs of the traditional houses of the Kasbah of Algiers. The volume vertical circulation inventory from our corpus study is based on a detailed analysis of each specimen seen from the beginning as a place holder or structural, functional and ornamental values. Thus, interpretation and comparative analysis of fifteen samples allowed us to verify the hypotheses. Although the design of the stair volume obeys a simple adaptation of the existing site constraints, it can only be from the point of view of form, structure and aesthetics of a type common to houses and stairs Ottoman houses of Algiers. This staircase type can be checked and corrected with the enlargement of the field of study. It is also possible to confirm the report that characterized the cross-building techniques and ornamental patterns used in the design of the volume of the stairs houses of Algiers during the Ottoman era. This cross remains indicative stage since every construction detail, structural or ornamental can open a path for a new scientific research.