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vignette|alt=photo de la Terre vue de l'espace, centrée sur l'Afrique|L'Afrique vue de l'espace. L’Afrique est un continent qui couvre 6 % de la surface de la Terre et 20 % de la surface des terres émergées. Sa superficie est de avec les îles, ce qui en fait la troisième mondiale si l'on compte l'Amérique comme un seul continent. Avec plus de 1,3 milliard d'habitants, l'Afrique est le deuxième continent le plus peuplé après l'Asie et représente 17,2 % de la population mondiale en 2020. Le continent est bordé par la mer Méditerranée au nord, le canal de Suez et la mer Rouge au nord-est, l’océan Indien au sud-est et l’océan Atlantique à l’ouest. L'Afrique est traversée presque en son milieu par l'équateur et présente plusieurs climats : chaud et humide au plus près de l'équateur, tropical dans les régions comprises entre l'équateur et les tropiques, chaud et aride autour des tropiques, tempéré dans les zones d'altitude. Le continent est caractérisé par le manque de précipitations régu

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Constructing the desert. Hotel and coach station (Ouarzazate, Maroc)

Pietro Berta, Adèle Moret

Desertification process keeps on expanding, particularly on the African continent, arid areas cover one third of the surface. At the same time, the world human population increases exponentially. For these reasons, it is important to keep on exploiting these desert zones. Ouarzazate is situated in the south of Morocco in a sub-desert climate. The city is nicknamed “Door of the desert” because of its strategic location: it is situated at the junction of the two roads, which give accessibility to the south of Morocco and the Sahara desert. The region is well known for its architectural patrimony and more recently for the cinema activities. These two different domains make increase the number of visitors in this part of the country and there will soon be a lack of host infrastructure including hotels. The project, a hotel and a coach station, doesn't want to be closed-off on itself, but to take place in the city centre to benefit of the existing activities; at the same time the two programs are close to the main crossroad of the region. This situation is accorded with the way tourists travel in the region: moving a lot in order to discover a maximum of sites spread in the south and staying a short time in the same place. The hotel is inspired by the caravanserai, which was a roadside inn along the trade routes where travellers could rest and recover from the day's journey. It supported the flow of commerce, information and people. It was a place where travellers could acquire new supplies and there were also shops where merchants could dispose of some of their goods. The issue of this project in the desert is to build in a sustainable way using contemporary building construction modes being in the same time inspired by vernacular architecture.

2009

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FEZ Lessons

Tiago Geada Trigo e Duarte Choça, Harry Gugger

The infamous Scramble for Africa at the turn of the twentieth century disrupted the entire African continent with enduring repercussions. Morocco—standing at a geographical crossroads between Sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghrebi Arab-Muslim world, and Mediterranean Europe—has ever since struggled to withstand the resulting cultural and sociopolitical clashes. Fez Lessons: Industrious Habitat investigates how these clashes have marked the socioeconomic structure and the urban fabric of Fez and whether or not it offers alternative and relevant means of human association and community. Alongside a growing stream of large-scale international investment, the constant enticement of tourism, and a worldwide revival of nationalism, we are looking for tiny cues, nagging doubts, and signs of the fusion between form and life, raising questions about identity, authenticity, tradition, the globalization of culture, and the use of local resources.

PARK Books2019

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Relationships between key functional traits of the waterlily Nuphar lutea and wetland nutrient content

Little attention has been paid to how aquatic habitat characteristics affect the traits of plant species. Nuphar lutea (L.) Sm. is a keystone species distributed across temperate regions of Europe, northwest Africa and western Asia. Its apparently low phenotypic variability compared to other aquatic plants led us to test whether the species exhibited significant phenotypic variability and whether trait values correlated to environmental parameters. The hypotheses were that (1) the environmental variation within our set of wetlands (both water and sediment characteristics) led to significant variation among four sets of traits related respectively to growth, reproduction, defence and storage and (2) that nutrient limitation (nitrogen and especially phosphorus) should affect plant traits towards a higher investment in storage and defence and a lower investment in growth and reproduction, thereby negatively affecting the success of N. lutea. To test these hypotheses, 11 populations of N. lutea were sampled in wetlands differing in physicochemical characteristics and spread along three rivers. A total of 15 traits, grouped into four sets (growth, reproduction, storage and defence), were measured during the growing season. Most N. lutea traits were related to the environmental characteristics of wetlands. The growth and reproduction traits were mostly positively related to habitat resource conditions, whereas the defence traits were positively correlated with both ammonium concentration and temperature, outlining possible anoxic stress (habitat adversity). Nitrogen or phosphorus limitation led to the variation of only a few traits: the rhizome starch content was higher in phosphorus-limited wetlands, while the rhizome length and volume, and the number of flowers were higher in nitrogen-limited wetlands.

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AR-481: Architecture in the age of acceleration

This course proposes to investigate six strategies for architecture in the age of acceleration: Regionalism, Territoriality, Participation, Transformation, Commonality and Rationality. Anchoring these strategies in recent architectural history, it will explore their relevance for today's practice.

AR-367: Environmental histories

Le cours vise à familiariser les étudiants avec l'histoire de l'environnement et des paysages, et avec la façon dont les différentes préoccupations environnementales, qui vont affecter de plus en plus fortement la conception des villes et de l'architecture.

CIVIL-441: Water ressources management

L'ensemble des problématiques liées à l'eau est présenté afin d'avoir une vue globale de la gestion et de l'économie de cet élément essentiel à toute vie et toute activité. L'analyse des ressources et des besoins est présentée ainsi que les outils d'optimisation et d'évaluation économique.

Afrique de l'Ouest

L’Afrique de l’Ouest est une région terrestre couvrant toute la partie occidentale de l’Afrique subsaharienne. Elle comprend approximativement les pays côtiers au nord du golfe de Guinée jusqu’au fle

Afrique subsaharienne

L'Afrique subsaharienne est l'étendue du continent africain au Sud du Sahara, séparée écologiquement des pays du Nord par le climat rude du plus vaste désert chaud du monde. Elle est parfois nommée

Égypte

LÉgypte (en arabe : مصر / miṣr ; en مصر / maṣr masˤɾ), en forme longue la / jumhuriyat misr al arabiya, est un pays transcontinental se trouvant en Afrique du Nord-Est et, pour la péninsule du Sina