Revue d'Architecture
Volume 1, Numéro 1, Pages 68-93
2021-10-01
The Colonial Architectural Heritage In Algeria: Between Conservation And Marginalization
Authors : Moulai Ahmed Moulai Khatir . Biara Ratiba Wided .
Abstract
The cities of Western Algeria today, and especially the city of Sidi Bel-Abbès, show by the presence of remarkable buildings, which punctuate the landscape of their urban fabric, traces of the passage of French colonialism which lasted more than a century. Indeed, these numerous buildings, qualified as «colonial heritage», «shared heritage» or «recent heritage» have undergone a multitudes of transformations since independence until today. The latter have, within the town of Sidi Bel-Abbès, on the one hand been the object of several conservation and safeguarding operations so that they can ensure the initial function for which they were intended or another function to which they were going to be adapted, and, on the other hand, they have been marginalized, abandoned and demolished in order to be replaced by other types of constructions. In the present work we have carried out research on the notion of «shared heritage» and its emergence within the Mediterranean Basin in order to grasp the characteristics of the public buildings to which it refers to the city of Sidi BelAbbès. We have then highlighted, through some important buildings dating back to the colonial period of this city, the different and multiple transformations that they have seen in order to grasp the evolution of this colonial built heritage from independence to the present day in the West of Algeria.
Keywords
conservation, heritage evolution, recent heritage, shared heritage, Sidi Bel-Abbès, transformation, west Algerian
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