Oualalou + Choi

Co-Habitation

Co-Habitation
© Luc Boegly

CO-HABITATION

OUALALOU+CHOI

ARCHITECTS
OUALALOU+CHOI

OFFICE
Kilo Architectures

PROGRAM
5 Houses and a Collective Farm

CLIENT
Private

PHOTOGRAPHS
Luc Boegly

AREA
200.0 m2

YEAR
2011

LOCATION
Morocco

CATEGORY
Houses

Co-Habitation
© Luc Boegly

Text description provided by architect.

This project, consisting of five experimental houses within a communal farm, proposes alternative modes of domesticity and co-habitation, both within the home and between homes.

Co-Habitation
© Luc Boegly
Co-Habitation
© Luc Boegly

A line is not inherently a domestic form; it does not shelter or enclose. However, when faced with the challenge of placing two houses on the site in such as way as to maximize privacy while democratizing access to the view, our strategy was to place two linear houses along a single line.

The two houses are sited along the same line and each house disappears from the visual sight line of the other.

Co-Habitation
© Luc Boegly
Co-Habitation
© Luc Boegly

Thus, we created a sense of privacy not through enclosure but through a lack of visual proximity.

Each house is one room wide and sixty meters long. The two extreme ends of the line (160 meters apart) house the private spaces for reflection, an architectural studio for one house and a yoga studio for the other.

Co-Habitation
© Luc Boegly
Co-Habitation
© Luc Boegly

Then, as one moves towards the middle, the spaces become increasingly more public and social, with the center held by the guest quarters of the two houses (thus allowing one family to ‘colonize’ the guest quarters of the other house if needed).

In each house, all the spaces benefit from a double orientation to the two different orchards and interior and exterior spaces flow into each other.

Co-Habitation
© Luc Boegly


Co-Habitation
© Luc Boegly
Co-Habitation
© Luc Boegly
Co-Habitation
© Luc Boegly


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Axonometry 01
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Plan 01
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Plan 02
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Plan 03
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Oualalou + Choi
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Oualalou + Choi
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