Project 05 — Stepped courtyard housing
Terrace Commons
- Status
- Concept design
- Program
- Stepped courtyard housing
- Location
- Casablanca, Morocco
- Area
- 31,000 m²
- Target year
- 2029
Terrace Commons — concept design, axonometric study
The idea
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.