Format: Plastic filing cabinet 30 x 20cm comprising one colour illustrated booklet of 44 pages, 60 colour illustrated technical partitioned in six chapters with separators, and a CD-ROM containing about fifty files on architectural typologies, significant sites and building arts both in French, English and Arabic.

Presentation:

Booklet:
This booklet presents traditional Syrian architecture: a broad range of architectural typologies and construction techniques spread upon a wide and complex territory. Traditional architecture is here envisioned as a transmittable heritage as well as a real estate stock. Its maintenance and its rehabilitation are essential, as proven by an extensive legislation. The diagnosis, prior to any rehabilitation intervention, is presented as well, as a guide for the experts.

Summary:
0. Credits, Preface, Introduction
1. Territory and Habitat
2. Typologies of Traditional Buildings in Syria
3. The Building Arts
4. The Legislative Framework
5. The diagnosis: a preliminary stage to any restoration or maintenance operation
6. Regular maintenance is the only true guarantee for a traditional house
7. Bibliography

Maintenance and rehabilitation technical files [text in French]:
These technical files stand as a practical tool for a better maintenance and rehabilitation. They provide information, answers and solutions to some of the most commonly found problems one encounters on traditional architecture.

Summary:
1. Structure
2. Roofing
3. Facade
4. Joinery
5. Ironworks
6. Installation