Urbanisation, Batna

The Benboulaid Avenues, formerly known as the Bocca Avenues, have always been architectural, cultural, and historical symbols of the city of Batna. As a location of cultural events and a meeting point for evening walks during summer holidays, they reflect the history of the city's various periods of urban development: a variety of buildings are lined up side by side, for example Monsieur Mekdade’s primary school,  a secondary school that houses boarding students from the entire Aurès region, residential blocks with the first public housing flats, the House of Culture and the prefectural building, public parks, and private villas.  The city's parks were continuously changed by successive government officials, but the new measures were always merely corrective ones – sometimes the paving was changed, sometimes it was the lawn areas or the low walls. Our concept advocates a simple approach: in order to improve the readability of the site we wanted to make use of pruned hedges to create closed spaces, ornamental paving for the pedestrian zone, and finally, street furniture and appropriate lighting.