The MACAAL, promoted by the Fondation Alliances will be a centre dedicated to the dissemination and exhibition of the multiplicity of contemporary artistic expressions in the African continent.

The Museum will be built in Marrakech, near the Al Maaden Sculpture Park and responds to a program with an area of 7,700 m2 that includes exhibition spaces, conference rooms, documentation centre and public areas.

The project developed by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, in collaboration with Omar Alaoui Architectes, is a contemporary interpretation of the traditional Moroccan architecture, generated by the addition of four independent volumes, expressing the contrast between the brightness of the interior spaces and the opacity of the massive outer walls of rammed earth concrete.

The public presentation of the project took place on October 15, 2014 at the Institut du Monde Arab in Paris on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition "Le Maroc Contemporain" collecting the different manifestations of contemporary creation in Morocco.

Text.- Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos.

CREDITS.-

Architects.- Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, S.L.P. and Omar Alaoui Architectes.
Property.- Alliances Développement Inmobilier.
Project architects.- Alfredo Baladrón and Alexandra Sobral.
Collaborators.- Rocío Alonso, Iago Blanco, Arihan Burak, Gianluigi Caló, Alejandro Campos, Enrique Conde, Patricia Grande, Jean-Benoît Houyet, Alejandro Klimowitz, Miguel A. Labrandero, Simone Lorenzon, Víctor Mascato, Ana Pascual, Paolo Russo, Berenice del Valle, Evelina Vasiliauskaite. IDI Ingenieros and Oger International Maroc (structure), R. Úrculo Ingenieros Consultores, S.A. and Oger International Maroc (facilities).
Location.- Marrakech, Marruecos.

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Fuensanta Nieto (Madrid 1957) and Enrique Sobejano (Madrid 1957), are graduated architects by the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM) and Master of Science in Building Design por la Graduate School of Architecture and Planning (GSAPP), Columbia University, New York (USA). Are partners of the office Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, with headquarters in Madrid and Berlín.

Enrique Sobejano is Design Professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin (Germany) and Fuensanta Nieto Fuensanta is an Design Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the Universidad Europea de Madrid. Both have been guest professors and lecturers at various universities and institutions within and outside Spain. From 1986 to 1991 was Director of ARQUITECTURA magazine, of Official College of Architects of Madrid.

Sobejano Nieto's work has been published in numerous magazines and books in Spanish and international, such as Casabella, METALOCUS, The Sketch, Architectural Review, Domus, Architectural Record, Detail, A + U, etc, and has been exhibited, among other places, Venice Biennale (2000, 2002, 2006) and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York (2006). They have received the National Award for Restoration of the Ministry of Culture (2008), the Nike Prize BDA (Bund Deutscher Architekten) (2010) and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2010).

Among his recent works include Madinat al Zahra Museum (Córdoba), Moritzburg (Germany), Colegio de San Gregorio (Valladolid) and the Conference Centres of Mérida and Zaragoza.

NIETO SOBEJANO ARQUITECTOS: http://www.nietosobejano.com

 

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Published on: October 20, 2014
Cite: "MACAAL by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/macaal-nieto-sobejano-arquitectos-institut-du-monde-arabe-paris> ISSN 1139-6415
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