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In the technopole of Foum El Oued, the 26-hectare university campus will account for nearly 20% of the entire area, which means that it will become the structuring element of the quality of the urban fabric. Beyond its scale, it is by its strategic positioning between marshes, wadis and dunes that the site will define the identity of the entire place. Rather than imitating the "constituted city" in this site with a powerful natural heritage, we wanted it to be precisely the scale of the landscape that structures the territory. Here, in order to fit in with the university's scientific and technical project, we have organized the project in an agrarian framework that will weave together all the elements, full and empty, built and landscaped.
This grid of fields that organizes the project defines the relationship of the buildings to each other and to the landscape. Here there are no lanes, blocks, plots, front and back, facades and courtyards. All of the built and landscaped elements are installed in the heart of the grid, set back from the alignment, so that the two roads that cross the campus from North to South and from East to West are integrated in a fluid manner without being a break.
Agrarian framework: This new "urban structure" crosses the roadway and allows the three parts of the site to be woven together. On the west side we decided not to build in this first phase of the university's life, to allow the most compact organization possible and to offer even more land possibilities to the experimental part, which becomes an urban landscape for the whole project.
Useful landscape: The entire campus territory is organized as a landscape of usefulness and amenities, a "test" and experimental garden. In reality, this profoundly Moroccan notion goes from the traditional irrigation gardens (Menara, Agdal) to the urban acclimatization parks of Le Forrestier at the beginning of the 20th century, which have forged the landscapes of our cities. It is on this notion that we build the scale of the campus of Foum El Oued.
Inhabited landscape: This organization will allow us to "inhabit the landscape" progressively and not to suffer from the successive stages of the university's growth, which will necessarily take place organically and over a long period of time. As the construction progresses, the buildings will replace the "fields" while respecting the grid of their implantation, which will allow to always keep the trace of them.