Usually representing spirits, ancestors or the primordial couple, these figures were placed in shrines and treated with great respect. Through a wide range of style, scale, belief and function the couples depicted share a timeless, serene equality necessary to the continuity of their societies.

Datum Antique: Houari Boumedienne Agricultural Village By Ricardo Bofil Taller Architects

Architects: Ricardo Bofill Taller Architects
Location: Abadla, Algeria
Interior Décor: RBTA
Project Year: 1980
Photographer: Ricardo Bofil Taller Architects
Website: www.rbta.com

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- 11 September 2017
- Edwin Seda
Datum Antiques , Residential , Selected Works , Housing , Low Cost Housing , Houses , Apartments , Sustainability , Materials ,

The experience that RBTA has gained in the construction of housing developments was called on by the Algerian government, through the agency of France, to be applied to the construction of new centres of population in semi-desert areas where agriculture was to be promoted.

Datum Antique: Houari Boumedienne Agricultural Village By Ricardo Bofil Taller Architects

The unsophisticated construction techniques and the absence of a professionally trained workforce prevented the completion of part of the project.

Datum Antique: Houari Boumedienne Agricultural Village By Ricardo Bofil Taller Architects

The composition of the urban nucleus on the basis of the combination of single-family dwellings offered infinite possibilities, which had to be limited and serialized in order to keep the cost of the operation as low as possible.

Datum Antique: Houari Boumedienne Agricultural Village By Ricardo Bofil Taller Architects

The geometrical forms chosen, drawn from Arabic and Mediterranean traditions, made for a first grouping of two or three dwellings laid out around a courtyard to compose a block.

Datum Antique: Houari Boumedienne Agricultural Village By Ricardo Bofil Taller Architects

A grouping of several blocks composed a neighborhood, and several neighborhoods, a town, with the proportion of built space to open public space being kept constant.

Datum Antique: Houari Boumedienne Agricultural Village By Ricardo Bofil Taller Architects

A large central square, such as in found in all Arab towns, serves as marketplace, meeting place, setting for festivities and spectacles and vital axis articulating the town.

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