The sun kissed the land with its blazing rays in a desert kingdom in northern Africa called Morocco. The strong sunlight cast dramatic shadows on the sandy red walls.

A secular town with a strong cultural identity, Taroudant architectural style, full of history, is an expression of the deep Moroccan South. The Taroudant University is an attempt to reinterpret that heritage through a building that carries a vision for the future. 

To that effect, the design relies on a set of architectural and urban principles brought to life through a conception where the inward and the outward interpenetrate, the scales vary and where the user is one with architecture.

The buildings of Taroudant University are arranged either side of a north to south axis of gardens that splits the site into two halves. Walls of each concrete block are uniformly covered in the orangey red render, which is applied roughly so that it shows a grain. There are eleven blocks in total and classrooms, laboratories and lecture rooms are mainly housed within the four largest buildings, which each wrap around small courtyards.