African project Villa Agava – Morocco
cy & fluidity
Designed by Driss Kettani , Villa
Agava , in Casablanca , Morocco is projected on a north-south oriented plot and features a blind façade on the street while being largely open on the side and the back with a south oriented garden .
Photography by Fernando Guerra | FG + SG
The planned “ silhouette ” is the consequence of the urban rules and the need to perfectly fit with the adjoining house on the east .
The disadvantageous north orientation on the street and the presence of existing high enclosure walls are here an opportunity to revisit some of the traditional house codes , while maintaining , at the same time , transparency and spatial fluidity .
A chicane entrance , highlighted by a set of black and grey-blue traditional tiles walls , emphasizes this duality and reinforces the contrast between privacy and discretion on the street and openness and transparency on the pool and the garden . This principle is affirmed through three landscape sequences , the mineral garden at the entrance , the aquatic sequence on the lateral side and the vegetable garden on the south , which in combination with the enclosure walls , reinterpret in a certain way the courtyard .
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