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.

Residence Andalous / Serge Santelli and Cabinet Gerau

Architects: Serge Santelli and Cabinet Gerau
Location: Sousse, Tunisia
Project Team: Serge Santelli and Cabinet Gerau
Interior Décor: Serge Santelli and Cabinet Gerau
Project Year: 1981
Photographer: AKTC

- 17 April 2016
- Datum Editorial
Aga Khan Awards For Architecture , Residential , Architects + Spaces , Architecture , Conservation Architecture , Urban Architecture , Selected Works , Editor's Choice , Sustainability ,

Traditional Tunisian domestic architecture consists of one- or two-level houses arranged around courtyards or patios. To achieve a contemporary expression of these indigenous arrangements for this hotel, the architect created an ordered series of symmetrical interior courtyards connected along a main longitudinal axis, from which secondary axes open. The hotel courtyards are paved, and are entered by two or four porticoes. All are simply ornamented by delicate ceramic decoration in the form of banding and panels. The innermost courtyards, some of them planted with orange trees or jasmine, have the intimate quality of private gardens. Water is the most important element. As in all the great Arabo-Islamic landscapes, it fills pools, runs off through little channels and jets forth in fountains under pergolas. Covered walkways and galleries offer shade. The jury found particularly praiseworthy the restraint with which materials and forms have been used, and the subdued nature of the colour scheme which enable this group of buildings to achieve its imagery whilst avoiding pastiche.

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