We are talking about three buildings of key branches of the Moroccan Foreign Trade Bank (Banque Marocaine du Commerce Exterieur - BMCE) in the capital of the country Rabat and in the largest cities - Casablanca and Fez (the latter is still being completed). These three buildings differ slightly in area, but not in height (3 floors - 11 m) and architectural design: they are “wrapped” in a “traditional energy efficient shell”, to create which the skills of local craftsmen and local materials were used. It consists of glazing, protected from the outside from the sun and intruders by lattice steel screens 20 cm thick in the spirit of Arabian architecture.
The building itself is a reinforced concrete frame with a "portico" along the main facade, organized according to a modular principle: the number of cells differs from city to city. All buildings have domes tiled with Moroccan zilligi tiles, but there is some variety: in Casablanca, the façade is tinted yellow.
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