Maroc : un habitat "occidentalisé" subverti par la "tradition"

Maroc : un habitat "occidentalisé" subverti par la "tradition"

[SHS:ARCHI] Humanities and Social Sciences/Architecture, space management

Morocco

housing

type

pattern

family

patio

In Morocco, housing project takes on an original urban form. This is the result of the colonizing powers who have taken into consideration the particularly strong domestic and urban culture of the natives. After the independence, the services involved in urban planning kept it that way, as evidenced by the 1964 decree that regulated housing developments. However, through the modernization of housing spaces distribution and of "model-plans," the urban developments implemented by the administration turned out to be too westernized for their residents. Later, these plans would be modified to better meet their expectations. On the plots of land allocated to them which small size corresponded to the density of the traditional Moroccan urban landscape, a large number of beneficiaries were to build up over time a "large home" oriented towards a central space (M'rah) to reflect their strong family bonds, and to embody the concept "we're one unit" which has barely been affected by the emergence of the individual in the family.

Pinson, D.

Monde Arabe, Maghreb-Machrek

1994

FRE

article in peer-reviewed journal

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00795854

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/79/58/54/PDF/SubvHabitatMaroc1994.pdf