Morocco designer fights petrify with tradition
A design taken inside a museum in a encampment of Amtoudi nearby a city of Tiznit shows a granary of a fortified encampment rehabilitated by a Moroccan designer committed to traditions and a environment.
Salima Naji revives ancestral techniques and uses them to revive common granaries, rehabilitate fortified villages or build a museum to urge traditions and a environment. PHOTO: AFP
TIZNIT, MOROCCO: An astonishing breeze of cold atmosphere greets visitors to a new repository centre in Tiznit in a plateau of southern Morocco, even though air-conditioning notwithstanding impassioned feverishness outward a walls.
That is interjection to a ancestral building methods used by Salima Naji, a French-educated Moroccan designer who specialises in construction that blends in with a sourroundings and internal traditions.
Rather than concrete, she used adobe and mudbrick, and built in high atmosphere vents for circulation.
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“First we demeanour during what’s accessible on a scene, rather than move things in from elsewhere,” pronounced a designer who has a second grade in anthropology and who has easy several chronological buildings.
The priority is always two-fold: to strengthen internal traditions and a environment.
Naji pronounced she was confused as to because “at a certain time people stopped building with internal materials” and how they had “turned their behind on this heritage”.
Adobe, rock, limestone, palm tree timber – this is a birthright that she refuses to abandon.
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Naji, 47, daughter of a Moroccan father and French mother, started operative with normal construction methods and materials for private clients.
Then she realised that “it’s all really good building for a abounding though a landscape is in a routine of descending apart,” she said.
She started to revive aged ksours, or fortified villages, former mosques and encampment granaries during a oasis allotment of Amtoudi.
In Tiznit, a city about 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Agadir where she lives in a tiny normal house, she has stayed constant to tradition with a new museum, a repository centre and a encampment hall.
A design taken inside a museum in a encampment of Amtoudi nearby a city of Tiznit shows a perspective of a fortified encampment rehabilitated by a Moroccan designer committed to traditions and a environment. PHOTO: AFP
Despite her hatred to a material, she had to use some petrify to honour Morocco’s civic formula for open buildings.
“I don’t know how we can credit this element that has no value, not historical, not in terms of meridian control, not aesthetically, and a expensive!” she said.
“It’s cold in winter, prohibited in summer.”
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The essential thing for Naji is that “in Morocco, traditions are alive, negligence down of course, though not passed like elsewhere”.
She worked on a Amtoudi granaries with internal artisans, nonetheless it was a plea to convince a youngest among them to learn aged methods.
Apart from being an designer and anthropologist, she has also had to offer as an disciple for a use of internal materials and ancestral techniques.
She was warned that her constructions would not reason adult to a rains.
But she insists that sound construction and good upkeep yield a longer-term foil to a elements than concrete, as proven by a ancient ramparts of a Moroccan collateral Rabat where she was born.
Her debate is to find “alternatives to an all-concrete approach of life” and she stays optimistic.
“I’ve seen people who wish change in this country, who wish something beautiful, intelligent, something that turns to a destiny though forgetful a past,” she said.
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