Projet 06 — Observatory & researchers’ residency
Night Observatory
- Statut
- Étude de concept
- Programme
- Observatory & researchers’ residency
- Lieu
- Atlas Mountains, Morocco
- Surface
- 3,800 m²
- Horizon
- 2032
Night Observatory — étude de concept, axonométrie
L’idée
A quiet tower for looking up — twelve residencies, one instrument, and the darkest sky within a night’s drive of three capitals.
Above 2,400 metres the Atlas offers what cities have abolished: true darkness. The observatory is a single calm shaft holding twelve researchers’ rooms, stacked below one instrument platform open to the sky.
Every window in the building faces the ground; only the top floor faces up. The architecture enforces the discipline the site demands — no stray light, no wasted view.
By day it is a monastery for science. By night the building disappears entirely, which is the point.