This project, led by Créative Architecture, involves building 10 holiday villas of 100 to 150m² and a guest house with communal areas, 2 apartments upstairs and 4 suites of ± 60m² as part of a tourism development.
The Client’s brief was to create a complex that would be self-sufficient in terms of energy. The buildings are designed to the most stringent Belgian insulation standards to achieve practically passive values. His idea is to transfer the insulation concepts used in our part of the world and put them to work in totally different climates. What successfully protects us from the cold in our northern climes can be just as effective against the hot Moroccan sun.
This project is currently being developed in close collaboration with XELLA, a firm that will provide its top performing units (40cm thick); the company ACCUBEL, which will supply the heating systems, and ENERSOL, a company that handles everything related to photovoltaic production and the battery storage of the electricity generated.
It makes sense to combine the energy performance know-how of northern countries with the extraordinary solar energy resources of the South to create a unique ZERO ENERGY district.
The concept has been designed to achieve BREEAM international certification.
This project is of great interest to the Moroccan authorities, who wish to present it as part of the forthcoming COP22 conference, due to be held in Marrakech in November 2016.
Créative Architecture is a team of 15 architects with over 20 years’ experience in the business. The firm handles projects of all types and sizes, ranging from large-scale real estate developments to private houses, government buildings, schools, nurseries, nursing homes and serviced residences etc. throughout Wallonia.
The firm is starting to work outside Belgium. A project of 350 housing units at Pierrepont in France and a HEQ housing project in Morocco are in the pipeline.
Having developed other skills, it now offers additional services such as:
- feasibility studies including risk calculation
- large-scale eco-district urban development studies and planning
- interior architecture studies, such as custom furniture design or establishing colour schemes
In-house research units also work on various thematic issues such as perceptions of movements in space, new ways of living, innovative reuse of materials (circular economy), etc.
The team members are versatile, flexible, reactive and accessible. They have three watchwords: passion, competence and creativity.
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