XXV OASIS CAMPUS RESTORATION AND DOCUMENTATION OF ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE M’HAMID – MOROCCO/

The OASIS CAMPUS workshop is part of the project of NGO Terrachidia. An aim to achieve the development of small communities by the enhancement of their cultural and architectural heritage.

Within this general goal, Terrachidia‘s main project is the work we carry out in the M’hamid Oasis, in the south of Morocco.
There, we restore and reconstruct singular buildings that shape public spaces or are important due to their high architectural and social value. In this way, all the local community is benefited from each project.

Terrachidia is formed by architects specialized in different fields such as Heritage, Landscape, Earthen Construction or International Cooperation.

We try to work with local associations, but in small villages where these do not exist or are not consolidated, we communicate directly with those people who are most relevant for the community. Thus, they are the ones who decide who to hire, who are the best masters and workers fitted for the task. We’ll work alongside them and they’ll be the masters.

Each workshop is composed of 20 participants from different origins and professions. You can be one of them!

All mornings are dedicated to construction work.
Afternoons are spent in different ways such as documentation and analysis of architectural sites, theoretical sessions related to the fields of study:  earthen architecture and its different construction techniques; landscape and resilience or international cooperation and basic habitability.

There will also be a workshop session with local crafts-women of the oasis. Whom we’ve been supporting for several years in the pursuit of developing their own crafts cooperative of women, where they make pieces of embroidered fabrics as well as baskets and utensils woven with palm.

PRICE: 590€
It includes workshop training with Architects specialized in Heritage, Landscape and Cooperation as well as with local construction masters.
Accomodation in bivouac and all meals are also included.

SCHEDULE:
7th > Arrival in the oasis and welcome at the bivouac
8th -14th > Workshop program
*Night of the 14th is included to be able to travel on the 15th early morning.

CLOSEST AIRPORTS:
Marrakech – Ouarzazate – Zagora