REUSO 2016

Any Monument preserves in itself the memory and the testimony of the past of a culture guaranteeing the future value of any human activity. The Maquam En-Nabi Musa contains everything in itself: history, religion, architecture and art overlapping it in a single architectural complex that increases the intrinsic cultural value of the building. The dramatic history of the monument is, like many others in many other parts of the world, a witness of anthropological value that architecture can give to places otherwise destined to oblivion. Like all monuments of the past, this one has the right to exist and to be renewed in its functions as well, according to a new kind of lenguage updated to the changing needs and attitudes of man. The rehabilitation and restoration design involves in this track, reinvigorating all that is now and making it able to face the new contemporary demands. “A people without memory is a people without a future” a poet wrote, this should be the message that through the new Nabi Musa design must be communicated ensuring, the descendants of the people who built and preserved it, a future of consciousness of one’s being. But not only, the opportunity is also to explain, consolidating and facilitating visitors access, from any origin, the meaning and the universal values of the site and the building. The Maqam En-Nabi Musa is a building organized around an ancient shrine. Located in the lower part of a natural hollow where, already before the humans, the water conveys from the surrounding hills creating a small green oasis in the middle of el-Bariyah. Everywhere in the world, the way from to be a collection point for people and to be a worship place is very short and by these short steps civilization borns and the architecture that represents it as well.