RehabiMed

REHABIMED

Countries: Spain, Morocco, France, Egypt, Tunisia, Cyprus and all the southern Mediterranean countries

Project initiated in: 2004

Presented by: Barcelona School for Builders, Architects and Structural Engineers (CAATEEB)

Partners: Mediterranean Centre of Environment in Marrakech, Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Works, Department of Antiquities of Cyprus, Avignon College and the National Institute of Heritage of Tunisia.

Project budget: EUR 3 500 000 (80% funded by the European Commission’s Euromed Heritage programme)

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// Context

The RehabiMed project, which aims to restore traditional Mediterranean architecture, is part of the Euromed Heritage programme. It actually follows on from earlier projects: Corpus and Corpus Levant, which aimed to identify and list the Mediterranean architectural heritage. RehabiMed, which ended in 2008, took the form of a not-for-profit association (RehabiMed Association). In parallel, and again following on from earlier projects, a new Euromed Heritage project was launched in 2009: Montada, which aims to create a participative model for promoting heritage as a local development factor.

//Project objectives

- Promote restoration and conservation work as a sustainable development factor (social, economic and environmental) in all the Mediterranean countries.

- Help to improve the living conditions of the Mediterranean population.

- Preserve the historic and cultural identity of traditional Mediterranean architecture.

- Create synergies and cross-border networks of experts in the various areas of building restoration and conservation.

// Action and Impact

1. Network of 130 Mediterranean experts from 27 countries.

2. Creation of a database containing nearly 500 examples of traditional architecture restoration projects.

3. Development and provision of practical application tools (Restoration Guides and Protocols) and the RehabiMed Method in two volumes: I. Restoration. Town and Country (19 tools) and II. Restoration. Buildings (11 tools). Over 50 000 copies have been distributed. Publication of Experiences of Mediterranean restoration (contains over 35 urban and building experiences in 15 countries).

4. Consolidation of the knowledge of experts and professionals from 27 countries in the multidisciplinary sector of restoration techniques and management, through the organisation of:

• Regional Symposium on Traditional Architecture in the Mediterranean, with over 200 participants
• 4 seminars with over 200 participants: Urban landscape in Lefkara; Sustainable tourism in Kairouan; Craft work in Cairo; Social action in Marrakech
• Euro-Mediterranean Conference with over 500 participants: “Traditional Mediterranean Architecture: Present and Future”.

5. Organisation of 4 pilot operations with 1 workshop linked to each operation in order to prepare for actions based on the participative method (municipality, property owners, investors and professionals, craftspeople, engineers, technicians, architects, decision-makers, and even the media). A publication on the themes of the four seminars indicated above is available for each operation.

6. Organisation of several awareness-raising activities involving different target publics:

• the general public, through an international photography competition: “Regards croisés”;
• publicity for the project in the media (100 articles in the daily press, 50 public presentations, 20 broadcasts on radio and television, publication of 12 magazine issues, 35 000 reports distributed, etc.);
• 2 exhibitions (reorganisation of “Jraba” square and Experience in Alep)

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