Algiers

Algiers faces the Mediterranean across a steeply rising urban site. The Kasbah occupies the historic hillside, where a dense fabric of houses, commerce and religious buildings follows uneven ground rather than a regular street grid. It remains a residential district, with older building traditions embedded in daily urban life.

Ottoman palaces and domestic buildings sit within this layered fabric. Earth bricks, stone, wood and earth or lime renders are documented elements of its construction, while the survival of building and decorative crafts supports conservation. Densification and uncontrolled alterations place pressure on the district, making the maintenance of inhabited buildings as significant as the protection of individual monuments.