Tinghir Miner’s Township, Morocco, Africa
Year 1987 latitude: 31° 29' longitude: -5° 31' Period Initiator(s) Société Méttallurgique d'Imiter Planning organization Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Taibi Jaafri Design organization Inhabitants Target population Town website Town related links http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=1017 Literature type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
Build to house the mine industry's workers in a corporation with Société Méttallurgique d'IImiter (SMI). Tinghir was already an existing village situated 32 km from the mine itself and the complex has functioned as a catalyst for the surrounding area. The program includes: 220 miners-flats, 20 bachelors-flats, 41 middle management houses, and 13 executive villas. A Mosque, baths, public facilities, sports, and pools are also part of the complex. The architecture is cubic, simple and uses the aesthetics of the indigenous earth architecture. This sort of complex with high standard and hygienic conditions is quite new in the Moroccan urban planning. source:
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