In the extreme northwest of the Algerian territory the Traras Mountain the vernacular architecture of the houses is facing natural and human threats. with its loss, a synthesis of traditional rural life, imminent. This article is aimed at identifying and recording the characteristics of traditional vernacular architecture in housing to safeguard the knowledge and promote community awareness with respect to this architectural resource, thereby providing a context for future conservation work. The study involved an architectural survey to identify and document the architectural resources of the Traras mountains vernacular rural buildings. The survey included collection of relevant historical and geographic information, building description and analysis together with other data relating to spatial and functional organisation, construction methods and materials. The final product of this study is a conservation‑support plan detailing all the characteristic features of the Traras mountains rural vernacular buildings.
This article highlights the problem of scientific research in the field of architecture discipline and takes Algerian universities as a study case. It presents and discusses research paradigm problems in academic architecture research and aims to perform a content analysis of architecture, urbanism, and built environment doctoral theses submitted in different architectural departments. Understanding and correctly applying a research paradigm is of capital importance in any research. It guides the research by controlling its evolution and the relevance and coherence of the research approach. Above all, paradigmatic positioning allows the establishment of research validity and legitimacy. So, this article aims to analyze the main paradigms of research and their respective philosophical principles, to understand the methodological problem of research paradigm identification and its crucial role in scientific research regarding architecture, urbanism, and built environment in Algerian universities. Therefore, several doctoral theses in various specialities in architecture and urbanism were analyzed to determine their research paradigm and whether the ontological, epistemological, and methodological points of view were respected according to the logic of every paradigm. The article stresses the importance of reviewing some traditional models of knowledge that still dominate, in an erratic way, the world of scientific research in the field of architecture and urbanism. The article showed that research paradigms are not identified and clarified, and a big part of the selected theses do not respect research standards in each paradigm philosophy.
Jebala (Tlemcen district -Algeria) is one of the historical and cultural regions very rich in traditional rural villages. The strategic location of this region, in the heart of the Traras Mountains, made it one of the leading destinations of many Berber and Arab tribes. Its historical importance was greatly influenced by constructing the historical cities of Ternana and Nedroma in the Jebala territory. This factor had greatly affected these cities, both historically and from an urban point of view. Later after the fall of Ternana in the third century of the Hegira (X century), the tribes living in the city for many years were dispersed all around the Jebala region in where they built several rural villages. They attracted the attention of the French explorer interested in the rural heritage of the Tlemcen surrounding areas. However, literature review of these villages is still very scarce. Thus, this article tries to fill the gap in these villages' historical and archaeological importance. The study had explored the region and has identified and studied the Jebala Berber villages, which are four: Matila, El-Ayoun, M'sifa and El-Yakoubi zaouia.
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