Diagnostic d’un bâtiment du tissu colonial en cours de réhabilitation Hôtel Safir (Ex Aletti)

Abstract

The Safir Hotel (formerly the Aletti Hotel, Algiers Municipal Casino) built during the celebration of the centenary of French occupation in Algeria by Auguste Bluysen and Joachin Richard, is one of the emblematic and historic hotels of the city of Algiers. Over the years, and following its continued degradation, the hotel was in a deplorable situation. Its rehabilitation was therefore programmed by the SGP Gestour as part of the modernization and upgrading of public hotel infrastructures to international standards in order to boost tourism activity in Algeria. It is through the rehabilitation works that structural features were discovered at the hotel. The singularities in the civil engineering of the hotel go back to its construction at a time when the reinforced concrete made its first manifestations and met rules often described as empirical completely different from the current construction standards especially with regard to the component seismic that had obviously not been taken into consideration at the time