Projet 05 — Stepped courtyard housing
Terrace Commons
- Statut
- Étude de concept
- Programme
- Stepped courtyard housing
- Lieu
- Casablanca, Morocco
- Surface
- 31,000 m²
- Horizon
- 2029
Terrace Commons — étude de concept, axonométrie
L’idée
Housing drawn as a hillside: four stepped terraces where every roof is the garden of the home above, and no apartment looks into a corridor.
The block steps down like cut terrain. Each band of housing stands one storey lower than the last, so every roof becomes the private terrace of the row behind — ground multiplied by section.
Corridors are replaced by open-air streets running along each terrace edge. Neighbours meet in daylight, not under fluorescent tubes.
The stepped envelope does the environmental work: winter sun reaches the deepest court, summer shade falls exactly where people sit. The form is the diagram of a good afternoon.