Results - Training centre for sustainable development in Marrakech.

International competition
Training centre for sustainable development in Marrakech.

Anna Heringer, Martin Rauch, Nägele Waibel architects and Salima Naji Riad winners.
In March 2010, the Fondation Alliances for sustainable development launched an international competition for the design of a training centre in Marrakech, Morocco. Sixty three teams from seventeen countries replied to the interntional call for candidatures. Six teams were selected to compete.

At a meeting in Marrakech on 16 and 17 July 2010, the jury designated the winning team composed of Anna Heringer (Austria), Martin Rauch (Austria), Nägele Waibel architects (Austria) and Salima Naji (Morocco) that will be commissioned to realise the winning project.

The jury unanimously recognised the architectural quality of this project, as well as its modernity. Integrated into the local context, it proposes an interpretation of the archetypes of the rural ksars and the urban medersas. The jury was seduced by this humanist project that combines technology, culture and the socio-economic reality of the region. This architectural sculpture plays skillfully, both externally and internally, with the overlapping of volumes and light and shade.

The second prize was awarded to Hind Tricha (Morocco) & Tekhné (France); the third prize went to Omar Essakalli Architectes (Morocco) – Bureau East (Morocco-United States).

Under the presidency of Said Mouline, the international jury was composed of Albert Dubler, Omar Farkhani, Nikos Fintikakis, Mrs Dominique Gauzin Muller, Eric Hutter, Alami Larzaq, Robert Lion, Fabrizio Tucci. The competition was organised under the auspices of the International Union of Architects.