Fragility and recovery of colonial architecture: toward a sustainable approach in Morocco.

In many ex-colonial countries, the built heritage during the dominant regimes is underlooked. Some countries, such as Morocco-the subject of the current research-have recently begun to take initiatives by launching inventories to classify buildings from that period, with the aim of preventing their demolition. The paper focuses on some specialised building types (industrial buildings, commercial, etc.) that are briefly mentioned in these technical inventories, as opposed to other types (residential, administrative, school buildings, etc.). The research is deepened by studying the now-abandoned covered market in the city of Casablanca, by observing the evolution of its original state alongside with its surrounding environment leading to the current state of the market today. The study adopts different methods from the graphic-semantic analysis, thanks to archival research and site surveys, a type- technological framing, and a parametric reconstruction using H.B.I.M. Recovery design reflections showing how many parameters are required for a hypothetical redevelopment, from respecting the original history of the building to meeting changing human needs.