Batna Housing Project, Algeria, Africa
Year 1972 latitude: 35° 33' longitude: 6° 10' Period Initiator(s) Planning organization Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization Inhabitants Target population Town website Town related links Literature 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
'A typical apartment module consists of five-rooms surrounding a central common room which is ventilated and lit by skylight. This room, warm in winter and cool in summer, recalls the central room of traditional houses known as wust ad-dar" with its ceiling "shubbak". Around this room are the living room.' From the Aga Khan archive. MONOTONOUS CONCRETE TWO STOREY HOUSES THAT, DESPITE BEING USED, LOOK A BIT LIKE THEY WERE NEVER FINISHED. source: http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.tcl?site_id=850
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