Architecture

Housing building

The façade is not a skin, it is a thickness.

An unprotected south-facing window makes a room uninhabitable for part of the year. The project adds no sunshade in front of the glass: it pulls the room back. The loggia is deep enough for the sun to stop inside it, never on the glass.

From one floor to the next the loggias shift, and the building stops being a stack and becomes a relief. None looks straight into its neighbour's.

Location: Casablanca
Programme: Collective housing
Material: Deep recessed loggias, offset floor by floor
Status: Competition
Credits: Renderings: Corona.

Housing block from the forecourt, deep offset loggias — **Rendering.** Arrival from the forecourt. The entrance sits in the hollow between the two wings.

Planted courtyard between the two wings of the building — **Rendering.** The planted courtyard. The loggias shift from one floor to the next.