#aziza chaouni

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Happy World Architecture Day 2024!

Explore the featured projects and firms highlighted in our selection attached here:

VDMMA - 29 queens

Co-arch - Revitalising Chamber of mines building

Minimat = HW Residence

Aziza chaouni projects = Qarawayine Library

Mariam issoufou architects - Regional Market

Fleury atallah architects = The Palm

Kate Otten architects = Lulu Kati Kati

Linda Mvusi - Apartheid Museum

Sarah Calburn - Paul Smith

Excited to Create More Together!

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Global Holcim Awards Bronze ex aequo for Sustainable oasis upgrade

The sustainable oasis upgrade in M’hammid El Ghizlane, Morocco, was honored with the Global Holcim Award Bronze. The project application was named "Cultural Interlude: A self-sustaining center to preserve tribal cultural heritage" by the architect Aziza Chaouni from Aziza Chaouni Projects, who has offices in Fez, Morocco and in Canada. We are very proud to have contributed to the sustainability of this project by developing the concepts collaboratively in a workshop with the design team.

Press realease text: The oasis in the Drâa Valley in southern Morocco is losing its inhabitants, and along with them its heritage. This project aims to help preserve local life and culture by creating a self-sustaining cultural center in the town. It incorporates traditional construction with appropriate technologies such as solar chimneys and solar-powered geothermal systems along with passive systems like composting toilets and rainwater harvesting for both domestic and irrigation purposes. “The project lies in the Sahara Desert at the fringe of an arid oasis acutely lacking water resources, so it has no choice but to be sustainable,” explains prizewinner Aziza Chaouni. “It needs to generate its own energy, collect its own water, and distribute it in a very efficient manner to make use of every single drop of water.” The Global Holcim Awards jury recognized the laudable intention to address the issue of tribal-community displacement due to the threat of climate change by suggesting a design solution that enables people to remain rooted in their hometown and maintain their traditions. “This project combines many different elements into a whole that serves a bigger purpose,” sums up Marilyne Andersen, Head of the Academic Committee of the Holcim Foundation.

Award ceremony > Project description > Transsolar project description >

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Knowledge is Power. This is from my 100 days project. Please check it out! Www.stephanietartick.com and www.behance.net/stephanietartick

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Per la #giornatamondialedellibro Come non parlare della più antico libreria del mondo La biblioteca di Al Qarawiyyin, un vero e proprio patrimonio culturale mondiale, è non soltanto la più antica biblioteca dell’Africa ma, secondo l’Unesco, anche la più antica istituzione di insegnamento in assoluto. Situata nella città di Fes, in Marocco, custodisce tra le sue mura millenarie manoscritti che risalgono al XII secolo a. C. Fondata nell’859 a. C. da una donna, Fatima El Fihriya figlia di un ricco mercante di nome Muhammad al-Fihri, a testimonianza del ruolo tutt’altro che secondario della donna nella civiltà musulmana, Al Qarawiyyin nasce come una moschea, diventa poi luogo di istruzione religiosa e dibattito politico, fino ad estendere le proprie competenze nel campo dell’istruzione e trasformarsi in una vera e propria università. In passato, è stata un punto di incontro fondamentale di scambio interculturale tra la civiltà araba e quella europea. Un centro culturale di inestimabile valore che visto formarsi tra i suoi manoscritti pilastri della civiltà orientale, filosofi, economi e poeti. Per accedere alla biblioteca di Al Qarawiyyin – che ospita anche una moschea e un’università – si deve oltrepassare un’enorme porta di ferro dotata fin dall’antichità di quattro grossi lucchetti, ognuno dei quali si apre con una chiave differente. I preziosissimi manoscritti contenuti al suo interno erano stati messi a rischio negli ultimi secoli da polvere e umidità: due vere piaghe per testi che vantano centinaia di anni. Aziza Chaouni, però, ha provveduto a dotare la struttura di un nuovo sistema fognario e di un sistema di canali sotterraneo in grado di drenare l’umidità. La biblioteca, inoltre, ha a disposizione anche un laboratorio all’avanguardia in grado di trattare, preservare e digitalizzare gli antichi testi. I manoscritti più vecchi sono custoditi all’interno di una stanza speciale dotata di sensori che assicurano uno stretto controllo sulla temperatura interna; tra questi scritti il più antico è una copia del Corano risalente al nono secolo d.C. scritto su pelle di cammello nell’antica grafia cufica. #Marrakech #marocco #inmaroccoconlaura #raccontidiviaggi https://www.instagram.com/p/COAC1wYA0BG/?igshid=28ja3ta4xrap

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LIBROMANIA LIBRIDINOSA

Marocco La biblioteca universitaria di al-Qarawiyyin, a Fez (una delle più antiche al mondo) fu fondata da una donna, Fatima al-Fihri, nel 859 dopo Cristo. L'architetta Aziza Chaouni ha recentemente restaurato lo spazio aprendolo al pubblico con un mix di vecchio e nuovo: accanto agli antichi mosaici trovano posto pannelli solari ed un caffè.

Fotografia di Izzet Keribar, Getty Images

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Sidi harazem, a thermal bath complex completed by architect jean-françois zevaco in 1960

https://www.designboom.com/architecture/sidi-harazem-bath-complex-renovation-aziza-chaouni-interview-10-14-2018/

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Founded by a Muslim woman, the University of Al Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco, opened its doors in 859. Its library has been restored during the last three years by another woman, Canadian-Moroccan architect Aziza Chaouni. A wing will be open to the general public later this year. The library houses a collection of 4,000 rare books and ancient arabic manuscripts written by renowned scholars of the region. According to the AP, the manuscripts include a 9th century version of the Quran and a manuscript on Islamic jurisprudence written by philosopher Averroes. The University complex was founded as a mosque by Fatima Al-Fihri, who inherited her merchant father’s fortunes after the family moved from Al Qayrawan, or modern day Tunisia. In “The golden age of Islam,” (French, video) a documentary that aired on France 5 Channel, Al-Fihri was described as a young woman fascinated by knowledge and curious about the world. She oversaw the construction of the mosque, and until her later years, attended lectures by reputed scholars who travelled to teach at the mosque school.

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Joudour Sahara Music School has won the 2021 Global Bronze Prize for Sustainable Construction awarded by Holcim Foundation.

The award-winning Moroccan architect, professor, and cultural and environmental activist, Aziza has designed the innovative Joudour Sahara Music School facilities currently under construction. Aziza has engaged international experts to support this project.

M'Hamid Oasis Map

Founded in 2016, Joudour Sahara began activities in the centre of M’hamid El Ghizlane in southeastern Morocco. Jodour Sahara now engages 90 students and more than 100 musicians across the Southern Draa Valley region.

Jodour Sahara Music School Site Plan

Outdoor Amphitheater Rendering

Modern music activities typically reach youth from M’hamid and from Tagounite, while traditional music activities include more than 70 youth from more than eight villages. There are no such activities offered elsewhere in southeastern Morocco, and due to the extraordinary efforts of our team, we are able to realize positive change in M’hamid El Ghizlane and beyond.

“This will be the first construction of its kind in southern Morocco. Playgrounds for children, music classrooms, a studio, outdoor amphitheater, an ecolodge residency, all thermally comfortable anytime throughout the year” shares Aziza, Architect and Joudour Sahara Co-Founder. Constructing Solutions

Aziza Chaouni Projects has designed inspired facility solutions to lead a regional fight against climate change while also promoting the practice and preservation of music.

Depicted here are the renderings for a multi-purpose water reservoir, combining vernacular techniques, innovative architecture, and efficient use of space in the above ground chamber, a cool space to gather and create during the hot summer season.

Construction of the water reservoir is currently underway. Help bring these facilities to thousands of youth across southern Morocco. Support the Award-winning rammed earth complex to house Joudour Sahara cultural and environmental programming.

In just a few clicks you can either donate to this project, with 100% of donations going directly to support the building of these facilities. Follow joudoursahara.org/architecture/ to be a part of this change.

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Brutalism Springs Eternal in Morocco

Brutalism Springs Eternal in Morocco - https://backpackerz.tk/brutalism-springs-eternal-in-morocco/ When Aziza Chaouni was a girl, she spent holidays with her grandmothers at Sidi Harazem, a thermal bath complex built next to an ancient magnesium-rich spring about seven miles east of Fez, Morocco.One grandmother loved the new complex, designed by Jean-François Zevaco and completed in 1960, soon after Moroccan

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U is for University: Fatima Al Fihri The world's oldest continually operating University? Not Cambridge (1209), nor Oxford (1096), nor Bologna (1088) - It's the University of Al Quaraouiyine in Fes, Morocco. It was founded in 859 by Fatima Al Fihri. She not only introduced "higher education" but also the concept that one could earn "degrees" in various fields of studies. In 2016 the Moroccan architect Aziza Chaouni was enlisted to renovate the world's oldest library, part of the University.

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La riapertura della biblioteca più antica del mondo, al-Khizanat Qarawiyyin: fondata nell'859. Quattro secoli prima della Sorbona!

Meglio ancora, è stata fondata da una donna, Fatima Al-Fihri, e oggi restaurata da un'altra donna, Aziza Chaouni...

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Aziza Chaouni, How I Brought a River, and My City, Back to Life, 2014

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Fascinating read.

http://ideas.ted.com/restoring-the-worlds-oldest-library/

"First, some history. The al-Qarawiyyin Library was created by a woman, challenging commonly held assumptions about the contribution of women in Muslim civilization. " Source: IDEAS.TED.COM

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Dünyanın en eski kütüphanesi artık herkese açık!

Fas’ta yer alan ve dünyanın kullanımda olan en eski kütüphanesi geçirdiği restorasyonun ardından artık halka da açıldı!

Fas’ta yer alan ve dünyanın kullanımda olan en eski kütüphanesi geçirdiği restorasyonun ardından artık halka da açıldı! Fas’ın Fes şehrinde yer alan Karaviyyin Üniversitesi (uluslararası adıyla: University of Al Qarawiyyin) 859 yılında Fatima Al-Fihri tarafından kuruldu. Üniversitenin dünyanın halihazırda kullanımda olan en eski kütüphanesi ünvanını da taşıyan kütüphanesi son birkaç yıldır yine…