LES ANCIENS ET NOUVEAUX KSOUR : ETUDE COMPARATIVE. CAS DU M’ZAB

Abstract

In spite of the constraining conditions of the site, the mozabites always established their human settlements according to their cultural references, starting from dominant and directing elements, and the natural environment in which they live. All along their history, the human settlements of the Mzab always preserved their identity incarnated in their typology, the climate, the site and their social realities. Even the lately built ksour combine the thousand-year-old tradition with the requirements of the contemporary life. The architectural language, which underlies this production, did not know deep upheavals. The mozabites drew favors of their heritage. The ancestral tradition, which formerly governed the constitution of a very particular built field, would remain powerful. The article announces a thought on new ksour in a physically constrained context where the secular tradition, which formerly governed the constitution of a very particular built field, would remain powerful. Indeed, the local production of space, after having known discredit, has spectacularly taken again strength for one decade. Work consists in making a comparative study between the urban and architectural characteristics which underlie the implementation of the new districts and those of the old cores