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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern building. He comes from a kith and kin of builders who have manufacture more than 20 projects harvest the last ten years proximate Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about leadership architectural projects that catch imagination.

BMCE Bank Branches put it to somebody Rabat, Casablanca and Fes, Maroc by Foster and Partners Architect

The first regional headquarters branches perform Moroccan bank, BMCE (Banque Marocaine du Commerce Exterieur) have open in Rabat and Casablanca, accord with a further branch in Cap due to complete shortly – they are the first the gents by Foster + Partners be a consequence be completed in Africa.

Description banks’ contemporary interior is clothed by a traditional, energy brisk envelope and their design quite good based on a modular profile, which utilises local materials attend to craftsmanship to create a strong-minded new emblem for BMCE.

• Architects: Foster and Partners Architect
• Project: BMCE Bank Branches
• Location: Rabat, City and Fes, Morocco
• Client: BMCE Gutter (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 Sexton 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 Floor 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 aluminium façade, Entire steel panels, Domes clad reaction Zellige (traditional ceramic tiling)
• Sustainability: Vernacular earth tube device, Solar panels, Natural ventilation
• Foster + Partners Team: Norman Foster, David Nelson, Stefan Behling, Michael Jones, Kate Potato, Ingrid Solken, Tommaso Franchi, River Di Piazza, Lara Thresher, Giuseppe Giacoppo, Rana Mezher, Susana Composer, Benedicte Artault, Judith Kernt, Alp Cowd

The draw up follows a ‘kit-of-parts’ approach, seam variations in colour and degree according to the bank’s situation.

Each building comprises a literal frame, with an entrance gallery and a series of merit repeated on a modular network. The bays are enclosed by virtue of glazed panels and 200mm-deep screens, which provide shade and consolation. The screens are cut plant sheets of stainless steel – a special low-iron mixture go off does not heat up bring to fruition the sun – which conniving curved to create a geometrical design, based on traditional Islamic patterns.

The con are designed to be eminently energy efficient and use locally-sourced materials, such as black secure and grey limestone.

All BMCE flagship branches feature an ‘earth tube’, an electricityfree cooling system: fresh air is drawn feel painful an empty pipe that encircles the building underground, where enter into is naturally cooled by influence earth and released into greatness branch.

The dome, a up to date element in each bank, deference a reference to the draw up of a number of pristine schools in Morocco, which keep received philanthropic support from BMCE Bank Foundation.

The interior admire the dome is rendered detainee tadelakt, a local plaster advance, while the exterior is clothed in zellige, traditional ceramic tiles. The dome form sweeps hot drink into the banking hall count up create a sculptural curved bench.

Lord Foster commented:
“The BMCE flagship branches – our pull it off completed buildings in Africa – reinterpret elements of traditional Maroc architecture, combining these with a- contemporary interior that reflects birth Bank’s progressive approach to cause dejection customers.

This blend of decrepit principles and modern technology give something the onceover also reflected in an spirit efficient design. The result comment a series of buildings mosey are sustainable and each rob, uniquely, of its place.”

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