REINVENT THE MEDINA OF FES
2008 - ongoing -Morocco
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Butterfly Works will be collaborating with Bureau EAST to create plans about the future role of the crafts culture in the Medina of Fes, Morocco.
Original concept: Bureau E.A.S.T and Butterfly Works
Last July Butterfly Works was in Morocco to join Bureau EAST, an international team composed by Aziza Chaouni and Takako Taji. Together they received the prestigious Global Holcim Awards Gold 2009.
The project which aims to reinvent the Medina of Fez, was selected from over 5000 plans worldwide. The core of this concept is to reintegrate the main river as the central lifeline of the medina and the city’s urban infrastructure. The medina of the Moroccan imperial city of Fez is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. However, its continuing decline threatens this prestigious title. Remediating the medina’s historic lifeline, the heavily polluted and barely visible river Fez, will return to this ancient ailing heart its dynamic soul.
“When a project isn’t focused on the needs of the people, then what?” --- Aziza ChaouniBrowse through quotes
