M'Sila (Maader Experimental Village), Algeria, Africa
Year 1980 latitude: 35° 42' longitude: 4° 32' Period Initiator(s) Planning organization Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Abdel El-Miniawy Hany El-Miniawy Design organization Inhabitants Target population Town website Town related links Literature - archnet.org/library/sites/one.-site.tcl?site_id=330 type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
Shepard's village (first of a government program of reform) The village contains 120 courtyard houses grouped in a central area with shops, stalls, baths, mosque, and public squares. The three aims of the project were: use of local construction technology, use and exploitation of local materials, and the creation of an architecture that would be instrumental in the social development of nomadic societies as they begin sedentarisation. The basic unit of the village is four houses grouped together around a collective space. The individual kitchens were thus interconnected and allowed the women access to each other. In addition each household is organized around a private area thus maintaining the closed character of a traditional family life-style. The building material is stabilized mud-bricks. source:
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