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1. Socio-Spatial Practices of a Community Living Beneath the Land in Beni Zelten, South-Eastern Tunisia

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Title1. Socio-Spatial Practices of a Community Living Beneath the Land in Beni Zelten, South-Eastern Tunisia
ContributorHouda Driss(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0388.01
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0388/chapters/10.11647/obp.0388.01
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
CopyrightHouda Driss
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-04-10
Long abstractHouda Driss analyses ancestral ways of occupying and appropriating space within the ‘troglodytic’ dwellings in the village of Beni Zelten, located in southeast Tunisia. Her research examines this architecture with respect to its natural environment and historical longevity, before identifying and analysing the socio-spatial practices inside these living spaces. The combination of theoretical and practical aspects of troglodytic spaces enables her to enumerate the activities practised in this context, which she then classifies according to the user type, degree of privacy and frequency of practice. In this way, she demonstrates how the underground dwellings in the Tunisian village of Beni Zelten reflect and respond to the natural environment, social factors and cultural values.
Page rangepp. 11–26
Print length15 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

Houda Driss

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https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9439-8886

Houda Driss obtained a doctorate in architecture in 2017, graduating from the Doctoral School of Architectural Sciences and Engineering at the National School of Architecture and Urbanism of Tunis (ENAU). She was a university teacher from 2011 to 2015 at ENAU and from 2015 to 2021 at the Private Polytechnic School Ibn Khaldoun. She is a part of the research unit PAE3C (Architectural and Environmental Heritage: Knowledge, Understanding, Conservation) at ENAU, and a member of the Technical Referee Committee for the magazine Sustainable Mediterranean Construction, Land Culture, Research and Technology. She is also a consultant to the Tunisian Mediterranean Association for historical, social and economic studies.

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