Architect’s Profile
What would you rate as your five
favourite projects to date, and why?
• Taroudant University, our first
competition, first win and first project.
• Guelmim School of Technology, where we
tried to continue our Taroudant researches
based on the context lecture and its
modern interpretation.
• The Casablanca Grand Stadium
competiton, which was a very new
challenge for us, with Portuguese partners.
• Laayoune School of Technology, which
was the third part of our “Morocco’s South”
projects.
• Tan Tan Summer Camp, which was a new
typology of research for us.
and each one of us on some personal
projects, including houses and offices.
What about Africa architecture and
design inspires you?
African design inspires us with the
necessity of a deep lecture of the context,
in the way that African design and
architecture have always been a mirror
and an efficient response to a social and
cultural identity, climate specificity, use of
local resources, etc. We need to understand
this way of practicing and use it in a
modern and prospective way.
Where do you see African
architecture going in the next decade?
What do you have in store for the
In a context of globalization and loss
of principles, African architecture can
next twelve months?
inspire worldwide, a new way of thinking
We are working on the Casablanca French
and making architecture, innovative and
Lycée Lyautey extension with French
respectful at the same time. Respectful of
partners ANMA, on some mixed-use
projects in a new urban area in Casablanca, culture, nature and humanity.
Casablanca Grand Stadium
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