Sustainable Conservation of Built Heritage for the Houses Casbah of Algeria: The Case Study of the Casbah of Algeria

The history of the Casbah of Algiers bears witness to the importance and status that this medina had. The subsequent passage of different civilizations, mainly Berber and Ottoman, made the Casbah the medina that has survived time and that we have inherited. The Casbah of Algiers is a historical site classified in the list of universal heritage, mistress of the Mediterranean since 1992. Unfortunately, given the development of the peripheries, we are now witnessing a marginalization and devaluation of historic cities. The modern city becomes a machine that produces urban voids in the historic centers; Spaces, as if left to their fate, are the negative of the built space and pose the problem of discontinuity and break with urban dynamics. Through this article, we try to go a way to understand the functional and spatial organization of the traditional house and the ancient way of life of the occupants, through a survey that has analyzed the current situation of the house and all the changes that have taken place. They produced. We can reuse the old architectural housing conservation project of the Algiers Casbah, but with a fundamental one.