TEMPORARY URBANISMEvery year for the past twenty years, thousands of delegates from 195 countries have met for the United Nations conference on climate change in order to address questions concerning the future of the planet. This year, the office OUALALOU+CHOI was chosen to design the exhibition spaces for the COP22 which will take place from the 7-18 of November in Marrakech. This project, which addresses questions of architecture?s role in creating temporary urbanism, continues the office?s research, evident in such projects as the Pavilion of Morocco at the world exposition EXPO 2015 in Milan and the installation of a temporary tensile structure on the plaza of the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris in 2014.
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Architects: OUALALOU+CHOI

Location: Marrakesh, Morocco

Area: 93000.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Luc Boegly, Courtesy of OUALALOU+CHOI, Hakim Benchekroun

Landscape : OUALALOU+CHO

Scenography: OUALALOU+CHO, Stéphane Malka

Team: GL events, Capital events, Agence Publics, Leni, Manzeh Diafa Contractors: IASO (canopy) / ITC (plenary gate) / GL Events (temporary structures) France Agencement (restaurants) / Eve (landscaping)

Client: Comité de pilotage de la COP 22

Budget: 43 M ?

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