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CuricculumArchitecture workshop Siem Reap / AngkorCyril Ros, Architect and lecturer ENSAPBHistory and urban changeTime and spaceFollowing the teaching programme carried out in Phnom Penh and Siem Reapfrom 1991 to 1994, a DPEA MAP workshop was organised in Siem Reap/Angkorfor 2004-2005. This was the result of a cooperation between the Authority for theProtection of the Site and The Development of the Angkor Region (APSARA), and theÉcole Française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO), with the moral support of UNESCO andthe Amis d’Angkor Association. It has been extended since 2006/2007 as a masterstudio of the Paris Belleville ENSA.Siem Reap / AngkorHeritage/tourism, contemporaneousness/developmentThe workshop is divided into two complementary sessions,the Town plan workshop and the Project workshop.The Town Plan workshop is to approach the town based on a cartographic analysis. It aims atdeciphering information and at acquiring knowledge of the town by understanding maps andplans on a scale ranging in size from the territory to the neighbourhood.The Project workshop favours the students individual processes and approaches. It has threestages: firstly the work carried out in Paris (the frame), then the encounter with the place onsite (study stay in Siem Reap), then its finalization with the presentation of an architecturalproject (the project).The frame theancient angkorian canals and the pondsscattered throughout the town frameframeincentiveWith a population of 80,000, Siem Reap is the seat of the eponymous province, locatedive kilometres from Angkor Wat at the junction of two perpendicular routes,the Siem Reap stung (river) and National road N°6 (NR6). In Cambodia the cityis considered unique, as beyond its administrative, business and residential functions,its proximity to the Angkor site has converted it into an international tourismhub. This status has been reinforced since 1992 and the inscription of Angkor on theWorld Heritage List. Within less than 15 years, the country’s economic development,the demographic boom and the tourism increase (two million visitors expected in2008) drew Siem Reap into a cycle of farreaching and rapid changes with majorimplications for its urban landscape.On site frame The project Student work exhibition Les Aventuriers du monde ——