African project
COP22 – Morocco
Y URBANISM
have met for the United Nations conference on climate change in order to address
+CHOI was chosen to design the exhibition spaces for the COP22 which will take
estions of architecture’s role in creating temporary urbanism, continues the office’s
ion EXPO 2015 in Milan and the installation of a temporary tensile structure on the
nde Arabe in Paris in 2014.
The canopy
The tent is a primitive and universal form of architecture that speaks to the common
needs of man on this planet. The enormous tented structure over the central space
covers 12 000m² and arises from a collaboration between OUALALOU+CHOI and the
manufacturer Serge Ferrari. The prestressed membrane is of an openwork design to
create an effect of transparency while still remaining completely waterproof. The COP22
provided the opportunity to create an innovative tensile project, both in terms of its
structure and its materiality.