UN PARCO ARCHEOLOGICO LITORANEO

sviluppato da:

Walid BEN AZAZA

Corso di Laurea magistrale in: Pianificazione e politiche per la città, l’ambiente, il paesaggio.

Docenti:

Prof.ssa Silvia SERRELI

Prof. Gianfranco SANNA

Prof. Andrea SULIS

Tutores:

Bakary COULIBALY

Salvatore Enrico PIRAS

Studenti:

Aurora IMPRUGAS

Marta MARRAS

Stefano PISCHEDDA

Walid BEN AZAZA

Jason Jules MARCEL NEHOU

CHAPTER 1 : CARTHAGE, A MULTIDISCIPLINARY MEDITERRANEAN HERITAGE

General context

The vulnerability of the current urban image of carthage

Historical review and landscape richness of Carthage Carthage, a Palimpsest territory

The territory as a Palimpsest

CHAPTER

Amélie Nothomb

The happy nostalgia of Amélie Nothomb

This work is made by different motivations;

The first motivation is the fact of digging in my memories to illustrate a personal attachment towards the city of Carthage, where I lived for 6 years during my passage in Tunis to study at the National school of Architecture and Urbanism of Tunis, I remember well my first sketches there and my first project of studio on the beach Carthage-Amilcar...

The second one is the fact of tracing the urban and territorial image of Carthage with my backround as a tunisian architect and my new knowledge as a student in urban planning, to capture not only the patrimonial and landscape richness of this context, but also the image of Carthage under the vision of its citizens.

The third one is the fact of developing urban and territorial studies in order to identify the current situation of the city and her urban problems.

The fourth one is the fact of wearing the role of a Tunisian architect and a future urban planner, in order to transmit my vision of Carthage to my Italian colleagues and to share with them a part of dream and emotion towards this context in order to affirm the role of the urban planner as a constructor of fiction.

Finally, what intrigues me most about this work is that I suddenly begin to perceive Carthage differently with the new knowledge that I have acquired.

Marked by a mixture of diverse cultures, Carthage had for reputation a land of dialogue and exchange. Carthage dominated the Mediterranean Sea and played the role of a political capital, commercial and spiritual...

His imprint marked the history of the ancient period. We are interested in the Carthage site because it is a unique site full of history, symbolism and heritage which is important not only for Tunisians but also for the other populations. This brilliant civilization has today a crucial power on the economic and tourist interest of the Greater Tunis. However, there is another reality behind the postcard image that we have of this place. As a Consequence, we may be led to question the legitimacy of its heritage today, if it still reflects the image of power and wealth or if it is nothing more than rubble and myth. In fact, the archaeological sites of Carthage no longer meet the dissemination of the site’s memory due to lack of attention granted to the preservation of the context and the establishment of adequate equipment, and those that exist do not reflect the richness of archaeological sites and harm its image and symbolic grandeur.

Moreover, other factors came into play, namely the urban development which does not necessarily consider the consequences on existing remains, the urban planning legislation that was flexible during the years of dictatorship with members of the ruling clan and an even greater disorder within the institutions since the fall of the political regime in 2011.