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PROFILE
The congress center will be
enveloped in a robust natural stone
façade, articulated with perforations
that allow light to diffuse inside, while
acting as solar shading. Respecting
site’s history and texture, the congress
center preserves essence of local values
in terms of material use, patterns,
colors and use of space. Project,
basically housing a main conference
hall, emerges from the inside out,
and becomes a sheltered place of
uniting international representations.
Strong in/our relation provided by
transparency, integrated spaces and
through inner gardens and patios.
Reference values of living culture and
vernacular tradition, grants building
ability to make the user think and
feel in local ambiance. The robust
looking structure enveloped by a
natural stone facade articulated with
perforations that allow diffused light
to fill interiors; endless geometric
patterns like mandala unifies the
shell. During different hours of day,
light shifts and plays across interior
spaces and gardens generating a
serene and natural environment, and
imbues a hue while granting natural
climate control system. Indentations
create gardens at upper levels and
form unique modules, so spaces
distinguished from outside. Dynamic
interior flow is initiated with the
landscaped inner patio/atrium on the
ground floor which is visible since
the entrance of the building which is
made through porticos, the middle
one being the sublime port that is also
a reference to striking local doors of
Morocco.
Mandala style geometric patterns will
generate an effect that references the
vernacular architecture of Marrakesh.
Internally, the building will include
a series of spaces on different levels,
internal patios and gardens that will be
a serene and natural environment.
The interplay of the inside and
outside will be a central theme for
the building, communicated through
such integrated gardens, as well as
with the sunlight piercing the façade
throughout the day. At ground level,
the atrium will be visible through
porticos and one central focus door
that will reference the striking local
doors in Morocco, emphasizing
a dynamic interior/exterior flow.
Marrakesh is a major city of
36 August/2016