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 …
LANDSCAPE IS MEMORY
The Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya has granted a grant for the development of the "LANDSCAPE IS MEMORY" project of the RehabiMed Association. The project will work on the traditional heritage of L'Ametlla de Mar and El Perelló (Baix Ebre). The aim is to highlight a neglected heritage, built over the centuries on a human scale, taking advantage of the site's resources. The …
Meeting UfM on traditional building skills in the south Mediterranean Region
The Union for the Mediterranean has organized a meeting of experts and representatives of various Mauritanian, Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian administrations. The meeting took place on July 6, 2023 at the Palau de Pedralbes, headquarters of the UfM, as the first step of several actions that will be launched in the coming months in Morocco and Tunisia, in order to promote the preservation of …
Damage assessment and emergency actions in Manbij (Syria)
Rehabimed is involved in an ISIS damage assessment and emergency consolidation project at three monuments in Manbij. A project led by Heritage for Peace, funded by the British Council and which begins this June.The project will intervene in three heritage buildings dating from Byzantine times to the early 20th century:The Al-Antabi tomb contains unique frescoes and geometric drawings …