Settat's City of Arts

Name(s): 
Rania Katai
University: 
National School of Architecture
Name(s) of instructor(s): 
Abdellah Serhane
Country: 
Morocco
Brief About The Project: 

Morocco is distinguished by its cultural diversity which confers to it a singular identity. Thus, Our choice was focused on the spatial theme related to culture: ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE. The region of Chaouia with Settat as its capital, presents a perfect field of experimentation to promote its neglected RURAL CULTURE by injecting A CITY OF ARTS open on its environment, as a place of residence and artistic creation sweeping a wide cultural spectrum: craft, theater, visual arts, linked to symbolic referents on different registers such as Halqa, Fantasia, Moussem(specific to Moroccan culture)

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