Incubator Accelerator Campus, Ben Guerir

Main plaza of the Incubator Accelerator Campus — perforated lace-like canopies overhead, the Morocco Innovation for Incubation and Acceleration signage on a glazed pavilion facade, people walking across the paved plaza at dusk

A new campus for the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Ben Guerir, Morocco — a research and incubation environment for UM6P's innovation programs, organized around a masterplan of minimal pavilions and lace-like canopied gardens designed as a total symbiosis between architecture, landscape, and community life.

A new campus in Ben Guerir is designed as a landmark project that fuses local cultures, nature, innovation, and education into a cohesive and inspiring whole. Designed around the concept of total symbiosis, the campus masterplan integrates buildings and landscapes into a seamless, mutually reinforcing environment where learning, research, and community life thrive.

Architecture and Masterplan

The architecture is composed of elegant, minimal pavilions that are arranged to frame and embrace a series of lush, naturally shaded gardens, creating a public realm that is at once contemplative and vibrant. The pavilions are organized along pedestrian walkways and courtyards sheltered beneath a system of lace-like perforated canopies, which filter the Moroccan sun and cast shifting patterns across the pavilion facades and garden floors below.

Gardens

The gardens serve as a central green heart to the campus and provide a vital social and ecological counterbalance to the built environment. More than just passive green space, they act as a dynamic extension of campus life — supporting informal gatherings, immersive learning experiences, and moments of rest and reflection. This shared amenity becomes a public living room for students, faculty, and the surrounding community: an urban landscape where nature and human activity converge.

Program

The campus is conceived as the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University’s incubator and accelerator for research, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Its interior program distributes open-plan laboratories, workspaces, and collaborative environments across pavilion volumes linked by interior atria and circulation bridges that overlook living walls and double-height lab floors. The architecture mediates between a research institution’s need for concentration and a campus’s need for exchange — interior spaces that are both disciplined and porous, opening continuously onto the gardens that hold the plan together.

Angled aerial view of the campus — perforated lace canopies hovering over courtyards and gardens, surrounding streets and residential blocks visible at the edges — Angled aerial — lace canopies over the courtyards, the campus embedded in the surrounding fabric of Ben Guerir.

Top-down aerial view of the campus — perforated lace canopies arrayed across a rectilinear plan, gardens threaded between pavilions, surrounding streets and residential blocks visible at the edges — Top-down aerial — perforated canopies and interstitial gardens arrayed across the campus plan.

Amphitheater plaza with curved stepped seating, a patterned pavilion facade beyond, densely planted gardens at the foreground edge, and the perforated canopy structures rising at right — The amphitheater plaza — curved stepped seating set between patterned pavilion facades and planted gardens.

Public walkway beneath the perforated canopies at sunset, flanking patterned pavilion facades, pedestrians crossing the plaza in warm evening light — A walkway beneath the canopies at sunset — the perforated geometry casting its pattern across the pavilion facades.

Dusk view of the canopy structures rising above a palm-lined garden path, people walking toward the lit pavilions beyond the perforated forms — The canopies at dusk — lace-like forms rising above palm-lined garden paths.

Street-level view of the campus pavilions with perforated diamond-patterned facade screens, the lace canopies overhead, cars and pedestrians at the edge of the campus boundary — The street edge — perforated diamond-patterned screens beneath the lace canopies.

Garden walkway in daylight — palm trees and dense planting flanking a pedestrian path beneath the white perforated canopies, pavilions rising beyond — A garden walkway in daylight — dense planting and palms beneath the perforated canopies.

Pavilion entry portal with full-height glazing framed by diamond-patterned screen panels, the perforated canopy visible above, people walking toward the entrance — A pavilion entry — full-height glazing framed by diamond-patterned screen panels.

Interior atrium with a full-height living wall, suspended sculptural elements overhead, a large screen projecting imagery, and seating groups at ground level — An interior atrium — living wall, suspended sculptural elements, and a gathering space at the base.

Interior balcony overlooking a double-height lab space — glass balustrade, full-height living wall along one side, open-plan workstations with orange task chairs visible below — A balcony overlooking the open labs — living wall at right, workstations on the floor below.

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