Located near the old factories of Casablanca, a disproportionate and abandoned context, this housing project attempts to reinstate a human scale.
In order to respond to the main road that borders the plot, but also to the close environment of the project composed of large urban elements, the building is expressed through a simple and imposing volume.
Yet on a human scale, it is organized like a village and attempts to retranscribe the strong hierarchy of Moroccan thresholds, ranging from the shopping plaza to the private patio. Like the city, the first floor is totally commercial. The rest of the building is articulated around a central exterior alley, inspired by the alleys of the medina. It distributes the housing and common spaces, hides the entrances from prying eyes and provides coolness in summer.
In order to respond to the multiple compositions of Casablanca households, the complex contains a wide variety of housing ranging from one to five bedrooms. The typologies are also designed according to the local lifestyle. The apartments are centered on a logia, replacing the central patio of a Moroccan house, but which can be closed in the cold season; they also include a large Moroccan living room dedicated to guests, away from the bedrooms where privacy is the order of the day.
Monolithic village aims to offer a typically Moroccan living space based on living together but also responding to the imperative need for introversion of the family home.