MARRAKECH CONGRESS CENTRE
- Location MARRAKECH, MOROCCO
- Year 2015
- Design Office TABANLIOGLU ARCHITECTS
- Responsibility CONCEPTUAL DESIGN, VISUALISATION
- Type CULTURE
- Area 14000 m2
- Status CONCEPT
- Winner / THE PLAN Award 2016/ Office Category
The project basically includes a main conference hall, emerges from the inside out, and becomes a sheltered place of unitinginternational representations. Strong in/out relation provided by transparency, integrated spaces and through inner gardens and patios. The robust-looking structure enveloped by a natural stone facade articulated with perforations that allow diffused light to fill interiors. Indentations create gardens at upper levels and form unique modules, so spaces distinguished from outside. Dynamic interior flow is initiated with the landscaped inner patio/atrium on the ground floor which is visible since the entrance of the building which is made through porticos, the middle one being the sublime port that is also a reference to striking local doors of Morocco.