SOUKAINA
FILALI
ARCHITECTS

Research

Dwelling before form.

Before drawing a rule, you must have seen it hold among the people who live there.

Diploma · École Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris

Social housing in Morocco

Fieldwork carried out by living with the residents of villages in the High Atlas, of shantytowns and social housing in Casablanca, and of informal housing. Ways of living are recorded, separating what is chosen from what is imposed. From this fieldwork came an architectural code specific to this culture.

Awarded best diploma.

Book in progress

La Fabrique de l'Invisible

An architectural code drawn from the way people live in Morocco. It began with the diploma fieldwork and has since been tested against real projects. Now being written, it will be published as a book.