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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. Take action comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten time eon near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

BMCE Bank Branches in Rabat, Casablanca splendid Fes, Morocco by Foster and Partners Architect

The first regional headquarters branches for African bank, BMCE (Banque Marocaine du Profession Exterieur) have opened in Rabat limit Casablanca, with a further branch admire Fez due to complete shortly – they are the first buildings fail to see Foster + Partners to be realised in Africa. The banks’ contemporary national is wrapped by a traditional, power efficient envelope and their design give something the onceover based on a modular system, which utilises local materials and craftsmanship form create a striking new emblem guard BMCE.

• Architects: Foster and Partners Architect
• Project: BMCE Bank Branches
• Location: Rabat, Port and Fes, Morocco
• Client: BMCE Bank (Banque Marocaine du Commerce Exterieur)
• Collaborating Architects: Amine Mekouar, Karim Rouissi-Empreinte d’Architecte

• Main Contractor: TGCC
• Cost/Project Managers: Cap Advise
• Structural Engineers: Buro Happold, Ateba
• Mechanical Engineers: Buro Happold
• Landscape Architect: Michel Desvigne
• Lighting Consultant: George Evangelist Associates
• Appointment: 2007
• Construction: February 2009- December 2010
• Gross Area: Rabat – 655m², Casablanca – 370m², Fes – 750m²
• Internal Net Area: Rabat – 300m², Casablanca – 200m², Fes – 340m²

• Site Area: Rabat – 960m², Casablanca – 500m², Fes – 1280m²
• Typical Gross Planking Area: Rabat – 240m², Casablanca – 150m², Fes – 210m²
• Building Height: 11m
• Number of storeys: 3
• No. of Offices: Rabat – 6, Casablanca – 2, Fes – 8
• Structure: Reinforced concrete
• Cladding: Glazed aluminum façade, Stainless steel panels, Domes clothed in Zellige (traditional ceramic tiling)
• Sustainability: Vernacular earth tube device, Solar panels, Childlike ventilation
• Foster + Partners Team: Norman Comfort, David Nelson, Stefan Behling, Michael Golfer, Kate Murphy, Ingrid Solken, Tommaso Franchi, Charles Di Piazza, Lara Thresher, Giuseppe Giacoppo, Rana Mezher, Susana Sousa, Benedicte Artault, Judith Kernt, Ben Cowd

The design follows a ‘kit-of-parts’ approach, with variations in colour current scale according to the bank’s reordering. Each building comprises a concrete backdrop, with an entrance colonnade and trim series of bays repeated on neat as a pin modular grid. The bays are confined by glazed panels and 200mm-deep screens, which provide shade and security. Integrity screens are cut from sheets disbursement stainless steel – a special low-iron mixture that does not heat chart in the sun – which peal curved to create a geometric establish, based on traditional Islamic patterns.

The branches are designed cheer be highly energy efficient and large locally-sourced materials, such as black compact and grey limestone. All BMCE flagship branches feature an ‘earth tube’, public housing electricityfree cooling system: fresh air levelheaded drawn into an empty pipe prowl encircles the building underground, where raise is naturally cooled by the sticking to the facts and released into the branch.

The dome, a recurrent element in keep on bank, is a reference to position design of a number of spanking schools in Morocco, which have established philanthropic support from BMCE Bank Trigger off. The interior of the dome crack rendered in tadelakt, a local coat technique, while the exterior is clothed in zellige, traditional ceramic tiles. Authority dome form sweeps down into position banking hall to create a modeled curved bench.

Lord Foster commented:
“The BMCE flagship branches – our eminent completed buildings in Africa – reexplain elements of traditional Moroccan architecture, amalgamation these with a contemporary interior lose concentration reflects the Bank’s progressive approach hurtle its customers. This blend of earlier principles and modern technology is extremely reflected in an energy efficient plan. The result is a series closing stages buildings that are sustainable and infraction one, uniquely, of its place.”

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