Crafting Luxury with ‘More-ish’ Qualities …
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Fig. 16 Rear brick-pelt of
the YSL museum. Photo
courtesy: F. Tiaiba, 2017 ©
Without and Sky space (2010) observatory at the National Gallery of Australia, in
Canberra, within the courtyard drum. This is especially the case when gazing at the
ground of the museum then being confronted by the swathes of staggered brickwork
‘as if in a gigantic wind turbine’ (Fig. 17), as mentioned in Benali’s story at the
beginning of this chapter, and then observing the strength of the sky. The archive
is entombed within the interior and the entire collection houses more than a few
thousand items of clothing, drawings and haute couture accessories. These technical
premises ensure that the archive is climatically controlled and has the most advanced
technology in Morocco. Other features include an atrium, a reflective rectangular
pool and sustainable gardens planted with palms, papyrus (Fig. 18) and Barbary
prickly pears (Fig. 19), all well-suited to the desert environment.
Studio KO’s brick-trickery craftwork is all about preserving the cultural heritage
presence of Marrakech’s modernist buildings. For example, the Cinema Palace in
rue Yougoslavie, Gueliz [31], built in 1926 (a replica of Cinema Eden in La Ciota
in France) has a more-ish façade and open-air theatre. Studio KO has materialised
within their design a rotation of the cinema’s brick and rendered façade at 180
degrees and adapted, and camouflaged, it together with large samplers of Berber
carpets built out of brick. Each of the five different types of brick textiles overhang
the concrete structure as if they were permanent brick-pelts hanging vertically over
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Fig. 16 Rear brick-pelt of
the YSL museum. Photo
courtesy: F. Tiaiba, 2017 ©
Without and Sky space (2010) observatory at the National Gallery of Australia, in
Canberra, within the courtyard drum. This is especially the case when gazing at the
ground of the museum then being confronted by the swathes of staggered brickwork
‘as if in a gigantic wind turbine’ (Fig. 17), as mentioned in Benali’s story at the
beginning of this chapter, and then observing the strength of the sky. The archive
is entombed within the interior and the entire collection houses more than a few
thousand items of clothing, drawings and haute couture accessories. These technical
premises ensure that the archive is climatically controlled and has the most advanced
technology in Morocco. Other features include an atrium, a reflective rectangular
pool and sustainable gardens planted with palms, papyrus (Fig. 18) and Barbary
prickly pears (Fig. 19), all well-suited to the desert environment.
Studio KO’s brick-trickery craftwork is all about preserving the cultural heritage
presence of Marrakech’s modernist buildings. For example, the Cinema Palace in
rue Yougoslavie, Gueliz [31], built in 1926 (a replica of Cinema Eden in La Ciota
in France) has a more-ish façade and open-air theatre. Studio KO has materialised
within their design a rotation of the cinema’s brick and rendered façade at 180
degrees and adapted, and camouflaged, it together with large samplers of Berber
carpets built out of brick. Each of the five different types of brick textiles overhang
the concrete structure as if they were permanent brick-pelts hanging vertically over