Basic Site Details Name: | Industrialised Building Project (IBP) housing project | Town, district or village: | Gurgi | City or county: | Tripoli (near) | Country: | Libya | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Situated 7 km west of Tripoli. To include 4000 houses
Main contractor Joint venture - Recchi Spa and Hojgaard & Schultz; public utilities Hans Grimmig, OAK
Sociology - Architecture Research Unit, University of Edinburgh; Landscape- Derek Lovejoy & Partners; Climate- Professor C Barrie Wilson and Seif Hassan, University of Edinburgh; Traffic Engineering Professor R White, University of Newcastle | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Housing | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1971 | | | Initial contract signed between RMJM and National Housing Committee (NHC), covering the initial planning of the scheme, including roads, public utilities and social insititutions (Glendinning, 2008) | | October 1971 | | | Feasibility report produced recommending a programme of 5,000 dwellings, ten schools, three mosques and 203 shops to be completed in 1973-7, and setting out the industrialised-building procedure | | 1972 | | Build/construction | Work on site begun | | June 1972 | | | Design Report submitted. It divided the site into four 'environmental area', with potential pedestrial/vehicle separation via a pedestrian spine, and a layout of interlocking courtyards structured by the Libyan stress on family privacy (Glendinning, 2008). | | June 1973 | | | Revised plans produced after rise in demand for number of flats to 3,000 | | 1975 | | | Installation of secondary public utilities begun | | 1980 | | Completion | Design and proparation of tender dicuments for the community buildings, including schools and District Centre |
PeopleDesign and ConstructionClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes | | National Housing Committee, Libyan Arab Republic | |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Glendinning, M, MacInnes, R and MacKechnie, A | 1996 | A History of Scottish Architecture | | | p582 | | Glendinning, Miles | 2008 | Modern architect: the life and times of Robert Matthew | | RIBA Publishing | p483-7 | | RIBA | 1975 | RIBA Directory of practices | | | | | RIBA | 1979 | RIBA Directory of Practices 1979 | | | | | RMJM | | RMJM Practice Brochure | | | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Courtesy of Ian M T Samuel | Information sent to Yvonne Hillyard March 2012 | | | | Courtesy of James Latimer | Interview of James Latimer by Jessica Taylor, 5 March 2009 | | | | Professor Charles Robertson's CV | Information sent from Professor Charles Robertson to Yvonne Hillyard, October 2010 | | |
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