L’identification d’un ensemble urbain du XXème siècle en Egypte : Héliopolis, Le Caire

Abstract

Héliopolis, ville nouvelle créée en 1906 à dix kilomètres du centre du Caire, à l’initiative du baron Edouard Empain et de son associé l’ingénieur Boghos Nubar pacha, a fait l’objet de 1997 à 2001 d’une étude de ses ressources patrimoniales conduite par le laboratoire URBAMA à Tours. L’étude s’est déroulée en deux temps, une première phase exploratoire visant à proposer des éléments de doctrine concernant la requalification de l’espace public en prenant en compte l’effet attendu sur la restauration des édifices privés et une phase d’approfondissement dont les résultats sont accessibles à partir d’un système d’information géographique (SIG), à l’échelle de la parcelle et du bâti. Le périmètre de l’étude s’étend sur 280 Ha environ et concerne 2000 édifices composant le noyau historique du quartier ancien.<br>From 1997 to 2001, Heliopolis – a town situated ten kilometres from Cairo, founded in 1906, at the instigation of Baron Edouard Empain and his associate, an engineer named Boghos Nubar pacha – was at the centre of a study project dealing with the local heritage, and led by URBAMA laboratory in Tours. The survey took place in two stages: first a preliminary research phase concerned with providing outlines for the requalification of public spaces in view of the expected impact on the restoration of private buildings; then, a further study, the results of which will be available by means of a geographical information system (GIS), to the scale of each plot and building. The study will be concerned with a 280–hectare area comprising some 2 000 buildings which constitute the historical heart of the old town

GIS for Understanding Physical and Social Change in Urban Settings: A Case from Amman, Jordan

“…Furthermore, in 1997 the General Organization for Physical Planning solicited the URBAMA laboratory at the University Francois-Rabelais in Tours, France, for help in defining a strategy for the protection of urban heritage in Greater Cairo, an initial study project has been launched for the study, with detailed documentation of architectural heritage in Heliopolis, a town situated 10 km from Cairo, founded in 1906 ex nihilo by Belgian and French capital. The study is concerned with a 280 ha area containing some 2000 buildings, which constitute the historical heart of the old town (Volait and Piaton, 2003).…”

Analysis of the architectural forms of the colonial period, in the regional group of Saoura, in Bechar (Algeria)

“…This means first identifying and recognizing the heritage of the colonial era, and then exploring this heritage through different museographer and aesthetic aspects. Egypt, unlike Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, had already in 1983 initiated studies on the specificities, the aesthetic and stylistic richness of the productions of Heliopolis and Cairo during the period of British colonization (Volait, 2003).…”

The Delaunay Diagram of Roundabout Cairo since 1867

“…For example, the largest circumcircle of (10,11,15) is different from the largest area of (4, 12, 14) triangle, even though of their same belonging to largest groups of both criteria. Meanwhile, the smallest circumcircle of (5,6,8) is itself the smallest triangular area to prove constant. In this regard, the pattern of point distribution inter-varies within the stable clustering of geometrical dimensions.…”

“…The wide variance of circumcircle diametric measure indicates the random distribution of roundabout generators with specific point process for each location. The largest circumcircle belongs to generators (10,11,15) that extends over the Nile, while the smallest one of (5,6,8) borders between the new European Quarter and old Cairo where the socio-economic hub of "Ezbekia Garden" is located. It symbolizes the opening of the roundabout structure towards the Nile versus the filteration process of closest generators at the overlap of diverse Cairo.…”