Local meets contemporary
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Project • By ZArchitecture Studio • Primary Schools
Jacques Majorelle School in Benguerir
The Jacques Majorelle School in Benguerir’s Green City embodies a climate-sensitive approach to educational design, executed through a collaborative partnership between Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and OSUI, the Moroccan branch of the French Secular Mission. With an ambitious one-year timeline from concept to completion, the project responds to a rapidly expanding community while integrating phased flexibility to accommodate future growth.
Design Inspiration and Key Concepts :
Inspired by the traditional Moroccan approach to educational architecture, the design focuses on courtyards as multifunctional spaces for natural ventilation, visual continuity, and communal engagement. These light-filled patios form buffer zones between... More
Project • By Raj Karan Designs • Individual Buildings
Flux Farm
The site is a hide away, embraced by the Aravali Range with its greenery punctuated by quarried Rock, Kota village and the ITC golf course.The client being a golf enthusiast and having farming as a hobby, desired to use the place as a weekend getaway from his city life.
Client’s brief was to create a farmhouse which would merge with its surroundings. Finishes were to have minimum required maintenance as the place would be used only once in a week. The vocabulary of the place was identified to resonate with the client’s personality - a symphony of contemporary and rustic.
The site is of 3 acres, zoning of the which has been done in three parts, Main House, Servant Quarters and the Fields.
1.5 acres allocated to the fields and... More