RACUS University Campus

Project Location
Project Location
Casablanca, Morocco
Project Type
Project Type
Campus
Customer
Customer
RACUS University Campus
Project Date
Project Date
2017
Total Area
Total Area
120,000 sqm
Project Category
Project Category
Architectural & Interior Design

Casablanca Racus University Campus which will take place in Morocco, Casablanca is positioned according to the climatic conditions of the Mediterranean. The new campus is designed as a complex that consists of a main building, four faculties, dormitory buildings, indoor sports hall, car park and a multi-purpose use square. The relationship between faculty buildings and a main building has been provided with wide corridors and vertical grooves. Free-floating light in the main building is highlighted by dynamic fiction of floors and sculptural staircase. The interaction of the stairs that is a collection point in the vertical plane in the middle of the main building is designed to facilitate circulation. Social spaces which will increase communication and sharing, collaboration spaces and resting zones are planned where floor space of horizontal collecting areas.

The most important principles of design are connection between horizontal programmes and vertical spacing and the creation of a design principle by overlapping elements. One of the main aim of the design is to create work spaces that operating in a very bright and open systems. On campus is kept at the forefront the use of daylight and ventilation, the distribution of lighting and ventilation resources to the main building and faculties is designed with both strong elements on the facade and the cavity created. With the geometry of facade, the lighting and ventilation levels of classes are distributed equally. Thanks to floor crossing over each other and grooves that on the facade, natural lighting and ventilation in floor gardens has been getting into interior spaces.

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