Guelmim Technology School by Saad El Kabbaj, Driss Kettani and Mohamed Amine Siana
Slideshow: following our earlier story about a university in the Moroccan desert with a sandy red exterior, here's a school of technology in the nearby town of Guelmim with walls covered in the same grainy render.
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Also designed by architects Saad El Kabbaj, Driss Kettani and Mohamed Amine Siana, the Guelmim Technology School comprises a series of concrete buildings that feature projecting windows, louvres and narrow openings.
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A series of canopies create sheltered walkways and seating areas along the north to south axis that divides the campus into two.
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Most of the classrooms are located in buildings on the western side of the site, while laboratories and workshops occupy a row of blocks on the eastern side.
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You can read about the university building by the same architects in our earlier story.
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Photography is by Fernando Guerra.
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Here's some more information from the architects:
Technology School of Guelmim Morocco
The project of the Technology School of Guelmim is part of the development policy of academic institutions in the southern regions of Morocco.
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The project consists of an amphitheater, classrooms, workshops, laboratories, administration, library, teacher’s offices and office staff housing.
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The starting point was to provide a strong architecture, contemporary but inspired by the context in which it occurs.
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The challenge was to recreate a certain mood, a certain scale with modern tools and architectural vocabulary.
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Thus, the architecture is voluntarily massive, powerful and plays with the contrast between interior and exterior.
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The various buildings are organized along a north-south axis through a partly covered path, and are organized on L-forms or indoor gardens.
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This organization helps readability and clarity of the various entities of the project while maintaining a set of scales adapted to the diversity of the program.
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Similarly, a reflection on the thermal quality results a work orientation, protection of openings and vegetation cover, thus conditioning part of the architecture vocabulary and principles.
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At last, the project Research finally assumes a certain theatricality, a certain gravitas that meets the solemnity inherent to educational institutions.
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Architects: SAAD EL KABBAJ / DRISS KETTANI / MOHAMED AMINE SIANA
Team: YASSINE EL AOUNI / RACHID EL MAATAOUI
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Client: UNIVERSITE IBN ZOHR D’AGADIR
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Engineering: BEPOL SARL
Contractor: ZERKDI & FILS
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Built area: 6883 M²
Design - Construction : 2008-2011
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