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Located on the archaeological site at the top of the Byrsa hill in the city of Carthage, the museum's essential aim is to improve the reading, experience, and understanding of the site, and to fit in smoothly to propose a compact organization of all the uses necessary for the proper functioning of this exceptional place. The project is divided into three stages, starting with a clarification of the existing site, by meticulously restoring the three main buildings of the Pères Blancs seminary. Next, we remove contemporary traces by deconstructing all recent buildings. Finally, a new stratum will be added to complete the ensemble. The new wooden building will be the most "fragile", the most temporary.
The site benefits from a privileged relationship with the distant landscape, with views over Carthage, Tunis, and the Mediterranean. The project proposes a staging of these perspectives through systems of paths, belvederes and footbridges positioned in strategic landscape alignments. The ground becomes a tool for historical and temporal spatialization, facilitating understanding of the historical strata marked by the Punic, Roman, and contemporary eras. The project proposes to renaturalize the site by bringing back and densifying the existing forest around the site, and to create a ground cover of specially selected plants.