A special material library
“I had only two walls, an iron structure with six pillars, three crosspieces and a corrugated iron roof” -This is Mouna Choyakh summarizes the starting point of his singular project. By Edia Lesage
Who is Mouna Choyakh?
Mouna Choyakh is an interior designer, young and dynamic. She has been practicing this profession for thirteen years after graduating from the School of Fine Arts (ISBAT) where she had as teacher Farouk Tritar, from 2002 to 2004.
Since its creation by Safia Farhat, ISBAT has been a pioneering institution in bringing art and crafts together. In this spirit, Farouk Tritar had the project to create a material library at ISBAT so that future professionals can see and touch the different materials they would have to implement. This teacher, totally dedicated to his students has marked several promotions of the ISBAT section Interior Architecture. Through his initiatives related to his favorite subject, knowledge of materials and materials. (Visits of recently completed projects, fair, shaping companies …). Several years after the disappearance of Farouk Tritar, (2009) Mouna wanted to make this project a reality.
After graduation, Mouna Choyakh was asked to teach. This is without counting on the tenacity of this young student who had already completed two internships in interior design before returning to school. At the end of her degree, she worked in particular on the arrangement of shops (from conception to completion), and a factory. Then she creates her own agency in 2006 that includes a library of materials, both for her and for her clients. When she receives trainees from the School, she has confirmation that knowledge of materials is more than incomplete among students.
After a brief stint as a teacher at ISBAT in 2010, she decided to create the material library dear to Farouk Tritar, to remedy the shortcomings of teaching, too theoretical.
The director agrees as long as it resolves the question of funding and offers a room on the third floor, inaccessible to the disabled and then leaves him “carte blanche” to find the appropriate place. Thus Mouna will find a shed that was used to store the reformed material of ISBAT. She will design the project and find sponsors for interior and exterior roofing, facades and glazed frames, floor coverings, lighting and electricity, air conditioning, painting, exhibition furniture, and materials. and catalogs to exhibit. (Stone, wood, glass, metal, aluminum, basins). It will also define the management system that will be provided by second-year students who, initially supervised by Mouna, will succeed each academic year. The rotation must be done autonomously, eventually.
The Farouk Tritar materiel library:
This material library, which cuts with its clean and smooth appearance with the buildings a little tired of the ISBAT was inaugurated on May 12, 2017 in the presence of the Director of ISBAT, officials of the rectorate, advisers of the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, former and new teachers, alumni, students, friends, family of Farouk Tritar not to mention ‘Am Hassen, the boss of the small restaurant facing the school of fine arts where Farouk Tritar was having lunch.
This project, whose cheerful and convivial inauguration was the image of the deceased teacher, is a pioneering project for the so-called public-private partnership (PPP). This was noted by the Minister’s adviser Driss Sayah. during her speech and by a distinction awarded to the promoter of the project, by the Minister, Slim Khalbous, who wrote in particular “It is with admiring interest that I followed this inspired, generous and highly symbolic initiative that you had to offer a material library to your Institute in honor of the memory of a teacher who has marked you, Professor Farouk Tritar (…) Your action summarizes and embodies the spirit of most projects for which we work in the framework of university reform “.
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