Presentations of the work of RehabiMed
On 20 February, coinciding with the exhibition “Living in the Mediterranean”, the RehabiMed project was presented at La Salle School of Architecture (Universitat Ramon Llull) as part of the talk by Xavier Casanovas and Montserrat Villaverde on Mediterranean Architecture: the Legacy of Tradition. On 11 March, the project was presented at the EPSEB in the lecture “International Rehabilitation …
Inauguration of the rehabilitation pilot operation in Marrakech
September the 11th saw the inauguration of RehabiMed’s pilot operation in Marrakech, with the presence of local authorities and government representatives, the RehabiMed team in Morocco and Xavier Casanovas, director of the project.The operation consisted of the rehabilitation of three historic buildings in the Medina, home to 150 people, with a view to improving their living conditions and …
Art Day in Kairouan
Jraba Square, in the Medina of Kairouan (Tunisia), is the site of one of RehabiMeds most significant pilot operations to improve the quality of the urban space, rehabilitating a rather run-down square that is a stop on tourist routes of the town. The Medina of Kairouan was declared UNESCO world heritage in 1989 and has received many illustrious visitors in the course of its history, but today it …
1st Mediterranean Region Conference
The Conference through photographsFouad MaazouzClose of the RehabiMed ConferenceRehabiMed has been three years of intensive work, meetings, encounters, debates, missions, creation of contents… Like Braudel’s …
Rehabilitation of Aleppo’s town wall
On 16 and 17 May 2009, in the framework of an international workshop to establish guidelines for the restoration of the city wall around Bab Antakeya, RehabiMed presented the work carried out by its team on Bab Antakeya in Aleppo. The results of the historical study conducted by RehabiMed provided key elements for drafting recommendations and the subsequent decision of the Governor and Mayor of …
Inauguration of pilot operation in Cairo
Sunday 17 February 2008 saw the inauguration of rehabilitation work on El Magrabi wekala, presided over by Hany Mahfouz Helal, Minister for Further Education and Research, and attended by Montserrat Casanovas, European Union Cultural Delegate in Egypt, and José Lorenzo, Director of the Spanish International Cooperation Agency (AECI). A large group of architects, university lecturers, other …
The inauguration of the pilot operation
On the 10th of February 2007 the inauguration of the Pilot Operation took place in Lefkara, Cyprus, after the completion of the works. The event was organized by the Department of Antiquities, in the aim of making the project known to the general public. In this context, the media were invited to the event, as well as the heads of the relevant authorities such as the Ministry of Communications …
Jraba Square’s inauguration in Kairouan
On Saturday 9 February 2008, a great celebration was held to mark the inauguration of the rehabilitation work carried out in Jraba Square in Kairouan, one of the pilot operations organized in the framework of the RehabiMed project. In the course of the morning, various activities took place to celebrate the completion of work and the reintegration of the square into city life, presided by the …
Painting competition in Marrakech
The RehabiMed team in Marrakech has organized a painting competition among the children who live in one of the houses rehabilitated as part of the pilot operation in the Mellah district of Marrakechs medina. This initiative highlighted the intervention, which has turned a grey, neglected space with all kinds of habitability problems into a safe, light space which, in the childrens eyes, is full …