Design

Our mission is to turn NBS materials and green building design into an everyday pleasure

Every project we share here is a testament to our commitment to sustainable innovation and traditional craftsmanship. These achievements represent our technical foundation and our passion for earth-based architecture, but they are merely the first steps of a much larger vision. We are constantly evolving, and this is only the beginning of our journey toward a greener future.

Design

El Haouaria

  • Location: Haouaria
  • Date: 2012
  • Description: Private secondary seaside housing
  • Tectonic: Structural walls with rammed erath, roof with timber framing and floor coverings made from reused marble waste
  • Architect: Karim Ladjili
  • Owner: Karim Ladjili

Taoussokht

  • Location: Jerba – Ajjim
  • Date: 2007
  • Description: Private secondary seaside housing
  • Tectonic: Structural walls with stone masonry (80cm thick), cased vaults with stone masonry, NHL plaster (indoor & outdoor), NCL painting (indoor & outdoor), rainwater collection system embedded in the masonry
  • Architect: qartbunDESIGN sarl
  • Engineer: Anis Zenned
  • Owner: Private

VCO2

  • Location: Lake of Tunis
  • Date: 2012
  • Description: Private housing
  • Tectonic: Reinforced concrete structure, double hollow brick envelope, « opus spicatum » vaulting (hollow brick) supprted by reinforced concrete crossed ribes, interior vaults with traditionnal brick of Tozeur, outdoor NHL manual plaster, indoor gypsum sprayed plaster
  • Architect: qartbunDESIGN sarl
  • Engineer: Imed Mebazaa
  • Owner: Private

Oued Saadane / neighbours

  • Location: Ghar El Melh / Bizerte
  • Date: 2020
  • Description: Private housing
  • Tectonic: Reinforced concrete structure, envelope with local CEB.
  • Owner: Private

Utique

  • Location: Utique / Bizerte
  • Date: 2021
  • Description: Agricultural premises
  • Tectonic: Reinforced concrete structure, envelope with local CEB, timbe rframe and cement tile roofing.
  • Owner: Private

Beni Mtir

  • Location: Beni Mtir / Jendouba
  • Date: 2021
  • Description: Private secondary house
  • Tectonic: Reinforced concrete structure, envelope with local CEB, reinforced concrete sloping slab and cement tile roofing.
  • Owner: Private

Maamura

  • Location: Maamura / Cap Bon
  • Date: 2022
  • Description: Private secondary seaside house
  • Tectonic: Reinforced concrete structure, envelope with local CEB (double layered), « opus spicatum » vaulting with hollow bricks, interior courtyard, vault insulation with cellulose wadding, natural ventilation reinforced with a mechanical fan, interior gypsum sprayed plaster, double-glazed joinery.
  • Architect: qartbunDESIGN sarl
  • Engineer: CEC
  • Constructor: SOBELTRAV
  • Owner: Private

Hammamet

  • Location: Hammamet / Cap Bon
  • Date: 2022
  • Description: Private secondary house
  • Tectonic: Reinforced concrete structure, envelope with local CEB, « opus spicatum » vaulting with CEB, « hassad vaulting » with hollow brick and reinforced concrete slab above.
  • Architect: Ibtissem Cherif
  • Owner: Private

Opus Farina

  • Location: Oued Saadane / Ghar El Melh / Bizerte
  • Date: 2022
  • Description: Private secondary seaside house
  • Tectonic: Full CEB structure, without any reinforced concrete columns, internal CEB’s walls, tile roofing above all vaulted spaces, rainwater recovery system, no air conditioning system, no heating system, full internal gypsum sprayed plaster.
  • Architect: qartbunDESIGN sarl
  • Engineer: Prof. Hedi Hassis
  • Constructor: Mohamed Dhib
  • Owner: Private
  • video: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=944435053699040

Offar

  • Location: Jerba
  • Date: 2019
  • Description: Creation of a social and community centre on an abandoned municipal garden: new construction (90m2), renovation (35m2), children’s playground, petanque, multi-sports ground, nurseries, rainwater tanks, disabled access.
  • Tectonic: « Opus spicatum » vault supported by a CEB shell according to the « opus numidicus » structural principle.
  • Architect: qartbunDESIGN sarl
  • Engineer: Prof. Hédi Hassis
  • Owner: Tunisian NGO « Tunaruz »
  • Funds: UN Habtita – Tuniaisn Office

Carthage Yasmina

  • Location: Carthage
  • Date: since 2016
  • Description: Transforming an abandoned municipal garden in a disadvantaged working-class district of the municipality of Carthage into a cultural, sporting and educational place to reduce rising delinquency by creating : a playground for children ; volleyball court; petanque ; a mini-football field; an urban agriculture unit managed by the immediate neighbourhood.
  • Architect: qarybunDESIGN sarl
  • Project Holder: local NGO
  • Funds: a Tunisian resident abroad from the neighbourhood
  • Project Holder: local NGO
  • Partners: http://www.commune-carthage.gov.tn/fr/
    https://www.edicitnet.com/fr/
    http://react.org.tn/
  • Status: Project selected 2nd out of 5 projects selected. Studies in progress.

Kheireddine

  • Location: Kheireddine / Tunis
  • Date: 2021
  • Description: Restoration and reinforcement of some deteriorated floors at the Kheireddine Bacha summer and resort palace, in the northern suburbs of Tunis using an innovative structural system made by Gypsum items (PLIMS).
  • Tectonic: PLIMS : Plancher Léger Intégral Moncef Souissi
  • Architect: Moncef Souissi
  • Owner: Private

GDA de Sidi Amor

  • Location: Sidi Amor / Ariana
  • Date: since 2007
  • Description: The Agricultural Development Group of Sidi Amor is a unique site in Tunisia thanks to its important nursery of medicinal and aromatic plants. But also, the site has become a major place of training and experimentation in eco-construction.
  • Master Mason: Thierry Wallraf
  • Web Site: https://www.sidiamor.org/

Regueb

  • Location: Sidi Bouzid
  • Date: 2020
  • Description: To create a permaculture and hydroponics training centre in Regueb, with a training space according to the eco-responsible approach.
  • Tectonic: Super-structure in CEB walls, vaulting with hollow bricks, interior gypsum sprayed plaster, exterior NLH plaster, double glazed joinery, harvesting rainwater unit, composting area.
  • Architect: qartbunDESIGN sarl
  • Project Holder: ARND
  • Funds: GIZ in Tunisia
  • Partners: https://www.lombredupalmier.com/
  • Status: not achieved

University Hostel of Tataouine

  • Location: Tataouine
  • Date: 2011
  • Description: Construction of a university hostel.
  • Tectonic: Mixed structure: reinforced concrete post and beam, cement mortared stone masonry, vaulted stone masonry roof, patio for thermal regulation.
  • Architects: Ahmed Bsila, Hédi Salem
  • Owner: Office National des Œuvres Universitaires

Aviron Tunisois

  • Location: Tunis / TGM
  • Date: 2017
  • Description: Construction of a new warehouse to store the rowers and canoe-kayaks of the Aviron Tunisois club.
  • Tectonic: Structure in CEB with a roof in metal IPN and corrugated ir
  • Constructor: BATIMATEC
  • Aviron Tunisois / Tunisian Rowing Federation

Bouargoub

  • Location: Bouargoub / Cap Bon
  • Date: 2020
  • Description: Construction of a guest house in the middle of a pine forest.
  • Tectonic: Foundation in local stone masonry, superstructure in CEB, timber frame and cement tile roofing.
  • Link: https://www.facebook.com/dar.selma.bouarkoub/
  • Owner: Private

Ramediya

  • Location: Gafsa
  • Date: 1999
  • Description: Construction of an enhancement unit for one of the last snail farms of the Capsian period (around 7,500 BC) : an urban enclosure that protects a mound of roasted snail shells (giant ashpit = ramediya) with museum facilities that explain the site and its history.
  • Tectonic: Frame in Gafsa stone sealed with NHL mortar, crossbeam in Gafsa palm wood, support wall in stone masonry coated with NHL.
  • Architect: AMVPPC
  • Owner: Ministry of Culture

Tabraqa

  • Location: Tabraqa / Jendouba
  • Date: 2003
  • Description: The Genoese fort of Tabarka (Tabraqa in Numidian = the shady place) is still used, in part, by the Tunisian National Navy (Direction des Phares et Balises). In order to allow visits to this historical monument, the AMVPPC has built a partition between the military zone and the rest of the archaeological zones.
  • Tectonic: « Jalousie » partition allowing the wind (very strong exposure) to pass but not the view, made of local eucalyptus wood.
  • Architect: AMVPPC
  • Owner: Ministry of Culture

Rammed Earth Seats

  • Date: Since 2002
  • Description: Rammed Earth is a thousand-year-old construction technique that continues to resist to this day (Byrsa, Bardo, Oudhna, etc.). The technique consists in compacting a clay soil (well dosed) in a formwork. Today, this technique is adapted to the scale of urban furniture.
  • Architect: qartbunDESIGN sarl

PLIMS

  • Title: PLIMS : Plancher Léger Intégral Moncef Souissi
  • Date: 2005
  • Description: Innovative system for interlight floor system in gypsum
  • Inventor: Moncef Souissi (DPLG architect)
  • Award: Tunisian Innovation Award (APII) 2006

QAWS

  • Title: QAWS : Qartbun Architectural Working System
  • Date: 2015
  • Description: – Innovative construction system based on the mechanical behaviour of the arch ; – Polyribbed arch with variable geometry supporting hanger in Bio-Polymers.
  • Inventor: Dorra Ismaïl & Mehdi Dellagi (architects ENAU)

Fokh’Art12

  • Location: El Aouina / Tunis
  • Date: 2024
  • Description: Ceramic Workshop
  • Tectonic: Cyclopean fondations (NHL concrete + stone), full CEB structure, no reinforced concrete columns nor cement, internal CEB’s walls, lintels and linkins with NHL concrete, all vaulted space, vault insulation with cellulose wadding, rainwater recovery system, no air conditioning system, no heating system, earth plaster for internal walls, almost 85% green building rate.
  • Architect: qartbunDESIGN sarl
  • Constructor: nstructor Mohamed Hédi Menneï / BATIMATEC
  • Technical Controller: APAVE – Tunisie
  • Funds: BIRD / PAQ 4C-ENAU (2019)
  • Owner: Unemployed university-qualified female ceramist
  • Video: https://youtu.be/nLOwg1GuMWs

Expertise

ebniecolo.tn regularly provides expertise to private individuals and institutions wishing to take the step of « ecological transition ». This expertise and consulting mission concerns the housing, retail and industrial sectors.

Raoued

The owner asked us for an expertise on the implementation of the natural lime plaster (NHL3,5 from INTERCHAUX). His mason was neither experienced nor trained in certain skills. The plaster was applied inside directly on the the CEB from SOIB.

Khezama

The owner asked us for an expertise on the implementation of the natural lime plaster (NHL3,5 from INTERCHAUX).His mason had an approximate knowledge of lime coatings, but not enough. His first tests were not conclusive. We identified the quality of sand and the appropriate mix-design. The rendering was applied on the outside directly on 12-hole pre-coated brick with cement.

ebniecolo.tn offers a « tectonic » (technical and architectural) expertise of vaulted works, in their different forms and structures, thanks to the technical knowledge as well as the varied experiences of the projects carried out within the framework of the professional activity of qartbunDESIGN sarl.

ebniecolo.tn proposes an expertise of the architectural and urban heritage, in Tunisia, according to three entries: the technical value (the know-how: to renovate and restore according to the authentic constructive techniques), the value of knowledge (the knowledge: the historical stratification) and the socio-economic added value (the knowledge to be: the heritage is not an object in time, but it is anchored in its social, economic and spatial temporality).

In order to strengthen the industrial fabric of alternative materials and construction systems, it is important to encourage and frame innovative projects in terms of ecological, natural, low carbon and energy impact materials.
ebniecolo.tn offers training, coaching and specific support in this sense.