Vers une perspective dialectique d’une étude génotypique des villages Aurèssiens (Cas du versant sud du massif Aurèssien)

DJEZZAR, Sana (2024) Vers une perspective dialectique d’une étude génotypique des villages Aurèssiens (Cas du versant sud du massif Aurèssien). Doctoral thesis, Faculté des Sciences et de la technologie.

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Abstract

This present research focuses on the socio-spatial study of villages located on the southern slope of the "Aurès" massif representing a significant model of a very particular way of life, which depends not only on the impact of its physical environment, but also on its own culture. This research therefore questions the relationship between space and the society that produced it, in order to understand, not only the mode of spatial structuring of these villages in question, but also to find out the way of life and social practices of their community. It thus aims to reveal a common genotype beyond the physical difference. In this regard, our interest in this present research is to conduct a comparative study based on a vernacular corpus taken from the three most urbanized major valleys of the region of the southern slope of the "Aurès" massif. In this case; the village of "Menâa", which is located at the level of the "Oued Abdi" valley, as a reference for comparison with other villages in this region, namely; the village of "M'Chouneche" in the lower valley of "Oued El Abiod" where the landscape becomes more Saharan, and the village of "Beni Ferah" at the level of the valley of "Oued El Kantara" on the left bank. These are therefore case studies which differ from each other in their physical and formal frameworks, and which come from equally different climatic, historical and cultural contexts, of which we would analyze the ancient traditional nuclei, using typomorphological and syntactic analysis. This is carried out by identifying the mode of spatial structuring of these villages in question, by defining the comparative syntactic elements, which would be the cause of the similarities and dissimilarities that distinguish them. It is therefore a question of looking for repetitions of certain structural characteristics that could be found in the organization of these vernacular case studies, which are considered as genotypic indicators. The results obtained confirm that there are common genotypes, spatially deduced by certain elements of significant recurrence, which reveal a social language that underlies spatial organization through repetitive patterns. The obtained genotypes retain, constantly, the main features found in all case studies, in terms of spatial structuring mode, which, consequently, suggest the presence of a cultural pattern. These genotypes, which reflect not only the spatial arrangement of the case studies but also the nature of the socio-cultural RESUME VII patterns, were determined according to the structural mode, the degree of ringiness, as well as the base difference factor with the taking into account of the inclusion or the exclusion of the exterior. All of this information has helped to understand these recurrences and therefore identify the mechanisms that govern the production of these types. Hence, the findings of this work revealed a recurrence of the space of seasonal activities and festivities ‘Annere’, in the most integrating position, characterized by fairly large spatial permeability and flexibility in terms of movements, with maximum control due to its nature as a public space. This space located along the most important streets intended for the circulation of inhabitants/visitors, being the pivots of circulations, which contributes to increase the control of access to other spaces, by offering more than one choice of circulation in a closed circuit, which gives users greater freedom of movement and circulation due to the ‘distributedness’ of this space. In second position, the male gathering spaces ‘Djemaa’ (located along the path crossing the religious space, which contains a fairly large number of integrated convex spaces), then, the spaces of family life ‘Thedderth’, and of social life (female gatherings ‘T'ssemerth’ and ‘Thessekifth’). Given that this pattern of intimate spaces favors a movement of transition on condition that it is constrained being the most segregated. All in all, the generative mechanism or rather the strategy of grouping the spaces of the different case studies is based not only on the spatial area intended for housing (the family life spaces), but also on other socio-cultural spaces meeting the needs of ‘community life’ (the exterior urban spaces of social life). i.e. this spatial strategy is the product of the local communitys' living culture as well as the social behaviors that characterize this rural Berber community.

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