The new Universite Mohammed VI Polytechnique campus in Ben Guerir, Morocco, is a project by Ricardo Bofill, developed.

Ricardo Bofill translated these spatial margins into a very dense masterplan,a dense web of buildings developed on lines parallel to this axis, predominantly in a pedestrian zone, alternating with green areas intended for specific recreational purposes. The university classrooms and institutes are housed in individual blocks with courtyards along Avenue Mohammed VI.

Toward the middle of the campus are two large gardens, in which sports facilities have been built on one side and a green area on the other, intended to encourage interaction between students and teachers, which may in the future be used for vegetable gardens and livestock raising.In terms of formal imagery, Ricardo Bofill drew his inspiration from Morocco’s architectural traditions, visible in all the country’s major cities. 

From the colour red, inspired by traditional local raw earth constructions and the desert sand, to the rhythm of the windows on the walls, interpreted on the basis of Bofill’s architectural idiom to offer shelter against the intense sunlight and promote natural ventilation of the courtyards and interiors. The design of the grid of windows on the internal and external walls of the campus reveals repetition of square and rectangular shapes in the sunshades, windows and big windows and openings in the walls around the perimeter: a postmodern interpretation of a key decorative and screening element of traditional Moroccan architecture.