Anbar Project


Location Marrakech, Morocco
Architect/Planner Elie Mouyal
Client Erac Tensift - Ministère de l'habitat
Date 1999
Century 20th
Decade 1990s
Building Types miscellaneous, residential
Building Usage community development, apartment building


View form roof traces courtyard and showing minaret


Aerial view, situating complex in urban context


Aerial view, showing courtyard


Exterior view, showing stone entranceway


Interior view, showing fluid transition spaces

Notes
Social housing with 560 apartments organised around a central urban space with mosque and public garden. Apartments are placed along covered but open alleys typical of traditional medinas. A standard apartment has three rooms, a central area, a kitchen, and a loggia connected to the kitchen. Standard construction techniques with concrete and cement block were used.

(Source: AKTC)