The central boulevard and the wall defining the perimeter of the housing blocks are becoming the founding direction of the new site, preferring an orientation of the building perpendicular to the coastline.
\nThe wall is the two-dimensions transposition of a story telling together the matericity, the colours, the craft tradition and African landscapes, the primordiality of the earth, the antique strength of minarets, the steamy mutability of the dunes in the desert: these are chapters in history that the wall profile tells to passers-by.
\nEventually the epilogue, the water, the ocean standing out and, with his horizon, gathering in a unique line the complex and plasticity shapes of the landscape.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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