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The Ecole d'Avignon has gained much experience over the
past fifteen years working as consultant to local government bodies.
First of all, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region,
where the Ecole d'Avignon has been called upon to provide its
expertise on the subject of the urban and village framework of
the area. This work consists of providing help with project design
in the initial stages, and with the actual project on the ground,
during the operational phase. These two tasks require a capacity
for strategic thinking, as well as the ability to accompany a
project in its realisation.
Next, the Ecole d'Avignon proceeded to adapt this
model to both Morocco and the Lebanon in the context of bilateral
co-operation between Mediterranean regions. This led to the idea
that a " restoration resource unit " can only be an
interdisciplinary structure, which is able to provide the different
partners in a project with more skills: its numerous and varied
contacts with the key participants in a project (decentralized
government agencies, local authorities, architects, local businesses
and tradesmen) will allow it to intervene in commissioning, project
management, training and qualification. This principle has been
built on the basis of the following analysis:
Nowadays, from a historic building to a traditional
urban area, there is a continuous line of thought and action between
the approaches to conservation and the approaches to urban rehabilitation.
The present concept of sustainable development makes the link
between an outstanding monument and its immediate historical environment. |
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| Cultural interest for a Mosque, a Medersa,
or a Palace is along the same lines as that for a Souk, a Hammam,
a Caravanserai, or even everyday housing. Although these objects
or groups of buildings do not necessarily have the same status,
they are all the result of the same global meaning: they are all
the living constituent parts which define the character of a town,
as well as its past, its age and its use. The dimensions of time,
value and economic function are all closely related to it, in the
same way as the urban substance and the image of the town. As a
result, the future of the whole historical center is to be governed
according to a policy, or procedures, which take into account all
of those who will be called upon to intervene on its traditional
buildings, and this in a way which clearly takes into account the
territory in which it is implanted. |
