LM House

LM HOUSE

Elements Lab

LM House
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ARCHITECTS
Elements Lab

MANUFACTURERS
Cassina Usa, Ligne Roset, Minotti, Poliform, Ikea

LEAD ARCHITECT
Mehdi Berrada

PHOTOGRAPHS
Doublespace Photography

YEAR
2017

LOCATION
Casablanca, Morocco

CATEGORY
Houses Interiors

LM House
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Text description provided by architect.

Casablanca, the economic capital of Morocco, is a hyperactive and chaotic city of nearly 5 million inhabitants where cars are steadily replacing trees.

When designing a home for my family, I had in mind the idea of a quiet place away from chaos, a fortress against the constant agitation of everyday life.

LM House
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LM House
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LM House
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Gradually, this idea was nourished by the image of the Riad, this typical Arab-Andalusian house modestly closed off from the public and open in its center on a planted patio.

Source of light and fresh air, the patio is also a peaceful and luminous counterbalance of the narrow streets typical of the ancient Medinas.

Located in the heart of Oasis, a residential neighborhood relatively close to the city center, the land plot that was to receive Villa LM did not allow for the architectural typology of a Riad; comprised notably of a dense, pedestrian urban fabric dating before the advent of the automobile.

LM House
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LM House
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LM House
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It was then necessary to adapt the intimate essence of the Riad to a modern typology inherited from the French protectorate, namely a town house with a garden around the periphery: the exact opposite of the riad. Thus was born this house conceived as a protective bunker in the middle of a shield of greenery.


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