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RehabiMed takes part in the study of the architectural heritage of Riyadh’s historic centre

Throughout 2025, RehabiMed worked on the study of heritage buildings in the historic centre of Riyadh. At the request of the municipal company responsible for the urban regeneration of the city centre, the Central Arriyadh Development Company, and in collaboration with the Italian consultancy Hydea, a pre-diagnosis of 20 buildings was carried out. The aim was to undertake a preliminary study to …

RehabiMed rehabilitates and launches a cultural centre in Tell Baya’a, in Raqqa (Syria)

Over the past four years, RehabiMed has been working in Raqqa, specifically in Tell Baya’a, on the preservation of the archaeological site of the Bronze Age city of Tuttul and on the rehabilitation of the buildings known as the “German Mission”, which had hosted the excavation campaigns prior to the outbreak of the Syrian civil war. This project has been carried out jointly with Heritage for …

The study on Espluga de Cuberes and its surroundings has been published

The works carried out at the Espluga de Cuberes and its surrounding area, on the frame of the euro-mediterranean project “Living on the Cliff”, have been brought together in a publication that offers a multidisciplinary vision of the site. It represents a joint and coordinated approach by various local and international experts in geology, geography, environment, history, archaeology, …

Presentation of the Living on the Cliff Project

After the project closing session in September, various presentations of the Living on the Cliff Project and the results of the Espluga de Cuberes Workshop were held throughout November and December 2024. The series began at the College of Technical Architecture in Lleida on November 4, continued at the College of Barcelona on December 9, and concluded at the UPC's Polytechnic School of Building …

Espluga de  Cuberes International Workshop. ‘Living on the cliff’

The Espluga de Cuberes International Workshop was the first milestone of the Euro-Mediterranean project ‘Living on the Cliff’, which is to carry out an analysis of troglodytic habitat and rural depopulation in the Mediterranean. The aim of this project is to systematically study this typology of troglodytic architecture throughout the Mediterranean basin and to analyse the opportunities it …

20 participants from 8 countries selected for the Espluga de Cuberes International Workshop

20 participants have been selected to carry out the workshop from August 25 to September 6 on Living on the Cliff. Analysis of the troglodytic habitat and rural depopulation in the Mediterranean. Students come from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Palestine, Lebanon, Turkey, Italy and France. Thanks to ACEID, 10 scholarships have been awarded for being countries in the MENA (Middle East and North …

International Workshop Espluga de Cuberes

Living inside the Cliff. Analysis of the troglodytic habitat and rural depopulation in the MediterraneanFrom 25 August to 6 September 2024Gerri de la Sal, Catalonia. SpainPRESENTATIONIt is an immersive experience to live the troglodyte Mediterranean habitat in person. It focuses on a unique case study, abandoned at the end of the 20th century, which will allow documenting, …

Jornada d’Estudi “Paisatge és Memòria. L’Ametlla de Mar i El Perelló”

Els dies 1 i 2 de desembre de 2023, es va celebrar al Col·legi d’Arquitectes de la demarcació de l’Ebre, a Tortosa, la Jornada d’estudi “Paisatge és Memòria. L’Ametlla de Mar i El Perelló”. La presidenta de la Demarcació de l’Ebre, Elena Rosales, va realitzar la presentació. Montserrat Villaverde i Anna Martínez, com a directores del projecte, van exposar els resultats del treball de camp …

Wekala rehabilitation in Cairo, 15 years later

It has been 15 years since the RehabiMed project (financed by the European Union) finished the rehabilitation work of the Wekala El-Magraby, built in the 18th century in the Gamalia neighbourhood of Islamic Cairo, under Ottoman influence. Originally, a wekala is a building built around a courtyard intended to house merchants and store their goods, on the ground floor, with the upper floor being …

Urban Landscape Rehabilitation in Lefkara, Cyprus, 15 years later

L'objectif du projet pilote RehabiMed était la restauration des façades de 16 maisons de la rue commerciale principale de Pano Lefkara. Le projet, financé par l'Union européenne, a été mis en œuvre par le Département des Antiquités, avec la collaboration du Département de l'Urbanisme et du Logement. Il s’agissait de restituer les principales caractéristiques de l'architecture traditionnelle de …