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Meknès
Ten visions of the imperial city
Between monumental gates, golden ramparts and silent perspectives, Meknès is reimagined as an imperial city shaped by light.
Geometric ornament covers every surface of the gate while green doors hold the centre and ochre ramparts extend on either side. Meknès built to declare — the entrance as a statement of power that time has not diminished.
Arcades run along the imperial courtyard toward a monumental door, a minaret rising above the far wall. The scale is sovereign — a space that once held ceremony and now holds only light.
Ochre arches repeat in perspective, each framing a green door beyond. A raking light cuts across the sequence at an angle — the arcade as a problem in repetition and variation, solved in stone.
Ochre walls converge on a green door while a traditional lantern hangs in the narrow overhead gap. The passage conceals rather than reveals — the medina at its most private, most itself.
Zellige panels and sculpted motifs layer the surface of the ceremonial door, the overhead light flattening the relief into graphic pattern. Craft at this density becomes indistinguishable from language.
A reflecting pool doubles the symmetrical arcades while a green door anchors the far end. The imperial patio is a closed world — water and stone holding the heat out, silence in.
The ochre rampart stretches in a long perspective beneath a saturated blue sky, green doors set into the wall at regular intervals. Meknès measured in walls — a city that enclosed itself as an act of definition.
A central pool anchors the garden's axis while cypresses and olive trees flank the path to a monumental door. The garden submits to geometry — every tree positioned in relation to the architecture, not despite it.
An architectural shadow bisects the large green door, cutting its surface into light and dark. The geometric frame around it holds the composition — portal as the city's most repeated unit, here seen at rest.
Light stone, bordeaux detailing and green doors compose a palatial façade whose pool holds the whole in inverted reflection. Contemporary palatial architecture resolving itself in the still water — Meknès doubled.
