(22 Feb 2025)
MOROCCO ARCHITECTURE
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Ouirgane, Morocco – 25 January 2025
1. Two earthenware houses on a complex built for earthquake victims under the supervision of architect, Khalil Morad El Ghilali
2. Wide of Khalil checking the house’s entrance
3. Pan of doorways to rooms inside the house
4. Tilt up of wooden roof above the door
5. Various of the 50 centimetre thick textured earthen walls
6. Pan of the open roof surrounded by cane
7. Close of the cane surround on the roof
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Khalil Morad El Ghilali, architect:
"Whether it is an architecture of earth or stone, it is for me a way of reconnecting with our ancestral traditions in particular, and then our construction culture which ultimately makes our identity, and which is increasingly denigrated or rejected by the different actors, whether they are professionals or social actors."
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Casablanca, Morocco – 21 February 2024
9. Wide of new modern buildings
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Imi N’Tala, Morocco – 4 September 2024
10. Various of the collapsed mountain’ stones on homes from the earthquake in Imi N’Tala (73 km from Marrakech)
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Tinmel, Morocco – 5 September 2024
11. Various of collapsed traditional houses in Tinmel 76 km from Marrakech
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Rabat, Morocco – 11 February 2025
12. Various of Chakib Benabdellah, President of the National Council of the Order of Architects of Morocco, in his office
13. SOUNDBITE (French) Chakib Benabdellah, President, National Council of the Order of Architects:
"The earth construction technique began to disappear to make way for new materials. The great number pushed towards new materials. But today, there is a return to the past, because we have a great concern for saving energy and for the comfort of living and inevitably, we reconsider, we take up the characteristics of local materials which are earth or stone in certain regions and we inevitably come back to it, and it is not only in Morocco, it is a little everywhere. These materials today, of course, are also evolving."
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Rabat, Morocco – 18 February 2024
14. Various of Hassan Tower rabat built in 1196 by Sultan Yacoub El Mansour, a ruler of the Almohad dynasty
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Ait Benhaddou Village, Morocco – 12 June 2022
15. Various of Ait Benhaddou Ksar built by the Almoravid in the 11th century in Ait Benhaddou Village, 30 kilometres from Ouarzazate
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Ouarzazate, Morocco – 12 June 2022
16. Talmesla Kasbah 8 kilometres from Ouarzazate built in the 19th century
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Ouirgane, Morocco – 25 January 2025
17. SOUNDBITE (French) Khalil Morad El Ghilali, architect:
"We do not actually need to look far for materials that harmonize perfectly with the landscape in terms of their colour, structure, resistance, and ability to adapt to the climate, depending on the context in which they are used. We find that rammed earth (pisé, technique for construction using compacted natural raw materials such as earth) is more suitable for plains, where it is abundantly available, while rocks or stone are more suitable for mountainous areas due to their accessibility and availability in those regions."
18. Pan from both houses to the building materials used
19. Mid of the brick powder
20. Various of cane
21. Pan of partially completed earthen house next to different types of building materials
22. Wide of building materials
23. Close of soil mixed with small stones
24. Tilt down of the house wall
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