LAHBIB EL MOUMNI 2009-2012
PORTFOLIO ARCHITECTURE WORKS
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Lahbib El moumni works
_Housing 32 _The -In-Side architecture school projects
HOUSE +39 Casablanca has been developed massively this past century growing from 200 000 people in 1912 to more than 6 million people in 1913. The most important percentage of this density was concentrated in the slums back in 1942, considering that Casablanca was attracting more people from the suburbs looking for work in Casablanca. Politicians and architects were facing the problem of building shelters for the new comers. In 1956, one of the major operations of housing was designed by ATBAT AFRIQUE, a new generation of modern architects who contributed in making more local concerned housing considering the climate and cultural background of Moroccan habitants than a universal architecture claimed by Le Corbusier. Known as the laboratory of modern architecture, Casablanca has known since then dozens of social housing projects all as the same quality as the first one done in the 50s(Nid d’abeille SÊmiramis). Nowadays, Casablanca is still seeking to remove all the slums, but the result is far away from what the habitants need today letting speculators and promoters gain more profits from this kind of housing by designing the minimum of what a house should be.
Concept
Block unit
Create empty parts from the block offering a mixity of apartment typologies
Circulation
East
Sun light and ventilation access East
Casablanca social housing 1952
Casablanca social housing 2005
garden roof to collect water and serve for urban agriculture
We tried to look at the history of housing for slums in Morocco in order to project problems and issues concerning this type of housing.
Overall view
1st level
Baseground level
North-west facade / South-east facade
House +39 is a combination of what we’ve tried to solve in term of adaptive and flexible spaces, connection with public spaces, the need of sun light and ventilations, and the budget of construction limit concern. Section
Circulation
Public space Apartment
Pedestrian an bike access only
View from the publlic terrace
baseground level view
General view of one block
Contemporary art museum in Casablanca Welcoming the new line of TGV in Casablanca, this project manages the renewing of the est part of the city, occupied mostly by industrial factories. The project is composed from two phases. The first phase is a large scale intervention creating connection between the two sides of the city, which are separated with the train line. The second phase of the project is including new programs and functions in the site. The most important program is the museum, offering to Casablanca it’s first contemporary Art museum. The idea was concentrated on making fluent circulation through all the levels of the museum, which create a cinematographic discovery of the exhibited art in the museum and also keeping the view connection with the site.
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Urban scale intervention Bench
Amovible vegetation support
lighting
new urban furniture that reminds the history of the site Renewing the urban space and developing new pedestrian squares
Weathering steel
Ficus rubiginosa
Aggregate concrete
Jacranda mimosifolia
Arbustes à floraison printanière
Chosen materials
Museum
Longitudinal section / Site
Longitudinal section
Principal facade/south
Transverse section
East facade
Exterior view
Exterior view from the panoramic bridge
Lobby view
Museum platform view
MacroLand Graduation project
Casablanca is a city that was developed based on a radio-concentric plan, during the last decade it was developed in two sides, the downtown and the suburbs. The only connections between both sides were large boulevards.
by two major steps: the first one is urban regeneration; we created a large parts of public spaces in different areas which will create different events along this connection and also we projected a new profile along the boulevard.
Nowadays as the city expands, those connections stayed at the same level of development 50 years ago, even if they are considered today in the heart of the city.
The second step of the project is concentrated on creating an “event” in the city, a new monument of Casablanca that can make the boulevard much more present in the development of the economic capital of Morocco, this architectural mixed program project is called Macro-land.
Our graduation project focuses in one of these boulevards, called “Ouled Ziane” we aim to to regenerate its development
Master plan
Ventilation
Visula connexion with the city
Sun light access to the building
Mix programs of public and private functions
EXHIBITION Free soil for exhibitions
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View from the pedestrian square
Boulevard Mohammed VI
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Megastructure
Vehicle access underground Boulevard Ouled Ziane
Establishing a connection with the site environment
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Emproving the public space access
Capsules composition
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Living room Transparency and ventilation through the building
Create a new skyline in the site
Bathroom Terrace Privé
Public space
Parent room
Kitchen
Public
Room Metalic structure
Stairs Entry
Entry Use of the ground level as a public space
Public and private composition
Housing models on Cantilever
Ventilation access
Public functions
Functions composition
Capsule model
Museum Exhibition space Office Circulation Shopping Housing Public space/cafe/restauration
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a. Principal facade b. The building skeleton c. Patio view from the 20th floor d. different slabs surface for diffrent function allowing view connections e. Overall view
Macroland
Mix programs and functions (office, hotel, service, playground, public spaces, gardens)
Macroland 2.0 “Macroland 2.0” is a “futuristic” development version of a megastructure created in Ouled Ziane in Casablanca. This project is questioning the density in the city, from the ground density to an “air-density” . This new development will creat a “sky-ground” as a starting point for the development in both gravity side and against gravity side. Macroland 2.0 may appear as an image of how Casablanca is over developed recent decades, offering a new platform of density in the city.
Vertical circulation creating public spaces platforms
Clean energy supply
Water storage/recycle used water
Capsule housing
330 housing capsules (studios/appartement).
Vertical connexion with the site.
the free soil on the ground promote a visual connextion within the site, which creates a 5 hecatres public space.
New transport facilities can be developed in the Macroland 2.0
the development of the megastructure is defined in both gravity side and against gravity side.
_Recycling perspiration, Megaliths in the desert
_Urban miccro suture
to generate a new development of the old medina of tetouan
International Competitions
Recycling perspiration - Megaliths in the desert It makes no sense at all to occupy the desert without first considering the problem of water The Idea here is to use at first a small quantity of water, drawn from underground, to irrigate plants then to recover it cycle after cycle, without loss. So we have imagined that a sealed greenhouse. It would do so by condensing moist air exhaled naturally by the breath or perspiration of the plants. Recycling water Fremen, in Dune (a Book by Frank Herbert - 1965) is a group that survives in dune desert by using waterproof clothes which recycle their water produced by their bodies: urine, sweat, exhaled air. Their bodies produced their own drinking water. Our installation does the same thing. Spatial Refrigerator It is an ancient principle, used since a long time to refrigerate water in hot countries. Insoulate a pot of water of its surrounding. The water will exchange their warm with the most cold thing in the universe : the empty dark outer space at -270째C. (by thermal exchanges)
Put a container of water at the bottom of a deep well so that the sun will not touch it , isolate it from its environment and come back a night later, and you will have cold water, or even ice. Why do we need a refrigerator to recycle water ? Plants exhale moist air, If you let this air go out in the atmosphere, you have lost your water, if you refrigerate it, you can Like the Fremen of Dune you have initiated the recycling of the water and you can now live a long recover the water in it by conden- time in the desert sation, and feed it again to the plants.
The spatial refrigerator works by exchanging hot for cold air
Cold permits the condensation of the water in the Hot moist air
This water is recovered and given again to the greenhouse.
The tower houses dwellings and production rooms made of heavy materials. So that it has a good thermal inertia
Inside, the heat, humidity and light, are tropical
Horizontal panels protect from the hot midday sun, it is possible to add solar panels
A membrane seals the green house so the moist air cannot escape
New air from outside is refrigerated by circulating in pipes before entering the greenhouse
Hot air is ejected by the spatial refrigerator
What can grow ? palm trees, bananas, mangos, tea, vegetables...
The greenhouse benefits from the low temperature of the ground.
Each plants is irrigated by its own pipe of condensed water
A deep well holds the initial contribution of water. The well is closed after use
Section and diagram
Ovrerall view
View from Megaliths
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The site is situated in a place between the fifteenth century and the old town of Tetouan. the Medina was made in the shape of the natural topography of the site. With a very steep inclination, + 11%, the principal road is considered very tiring for the population to cross every day. It is also an attractive square market where merchants just stop by the road, and that makes the passage even harder to residents. another major problem in this piece of the Medina is the high flow of rain that flooded this part whenever it’s hard raining. So we aims to solve this problem and also to reshape this street to make it easier to cross, our objective is to make this part a convivial meeting place.
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Generated process
neighborhood pole
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Public space (Garden)
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Market
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Public space (panoramic view on the medina) Urban agriculture
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Master plan Master plan
Use of Local Materials
stones from the region mixed with concrete
Restitution and Preservation of heritage buildings
Public space above the market
stops for rest Panoramic view on the city
neighborhood pole
Generated propo
We tried to make more lighter slopes and we created sort of small public spaces that could be used as a rest stop (every 50 m) in which little activities could be injected like play tables, ...
Rest stop
Protect building's foundations
Urban agriculture
1 KM DISTANCE
Rain water storage diagram
Public rest stops
Green space
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REST STOPS
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Rest stop
Urban agriculture the biggest part of water collected could be used for agriculture.
rain water collector: the principal collctor play the role of a distributor of the water based on needs of the neighbourhood, watering plants, cleaning the streets, ...
Rest stop
Public space
Human interaction diagram
CREATING WATER STOPS AND COLLECTION Creating water collection areas will reduce the flooding and the water collected could be used for watering the plants or cleaning the market at the end of the day.
Water collection stop
PUBLIC SPACES We generated new public spaces and green spaces. As we used also a disaffected natural green zone as a zone for urban agriculture to make social developpemnt (creat new jobs) in this area. Existing market Public square Green spaces (urban agriculture)
_Awards & publications
Interview: How do you define Casablanca ? Made in Casablanca - 2012
1st prize of the international student poster competition at the 4th Holcim Forum in India
Publication: Mohamed V square... A place that speaks ! ArchiAfrika Newsletter - Maghreb in Motion July 2012
Interview: Social housing in Casablanca Documentary by Claude CORBIER French Photographer and filmmaker
Publication: The youngest Architectural guide in Casablanca 3th place at the international competiton Fada Casamemoire Magazine- 2013
Proposal exposed in the Moroccan pavillon at the Biennale di Venezia- 2014
Lahbib El moumni - Portfolio 2014 http://lahbibworks.c.la/ bibelmoumni@gmail.com