ABOUT AWM

Abdelouahed Mountassir, Urbanist Architect, An artist. Before becoming a DPLG architect in 1983, Abdelouahed Mountassir was a painter and participated in numerous exhibitions in Morocco and abroad. His meeting with Ricardo Porro, at the Lille School of Architecture, architect and theorist of architecture and whose voice persisted in reminding us that the architect is a poet of space and that architecture, like all experience creative, requires the adventure of the imagination; will develop his feeling for the social and poetic character of the city. Mountassir seems to owe to this master the conviction that on each architectural act, he must decline a personal bias, which will later give this unitary and united aspect to his achievements.

On his return to Casablanca, he will occupy the functions of director and teacher at the training center for technical executives of the Ministry of the Interior. Three years later, he set up on his own. Through his firm and through the two others of which he was a part, namely Fusion and Confluences, major projects are being shown: Koréa, Nassim, Omar Ibn El Khattab, Grande baie de Casablanca, Vallée du Bouregreg, Al Kora, Bibliothèque Nationale du Kingdom, etc.

Mountassir has won several architectural competitions: the one for the construction of the National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco in 2001, the Mediterranean Pavilion for the 2010 Universal Exhibition, the CNSS for the visual identity of the company in 2000, the global development party for the Bouregreg valley in 2002; of the Régie des Tabacs with Rachid Andaloussi, Mohammed Berrada and Raouf Arabani in 2002; of Bank al Maghrib Tangier in 2005; the Intermodal Tertiary Center (CTI Tanger Med) with Confluences and the Jean Nouvel workshop in 2006; the national architectural competition for the Bab Al Bahr sequence with Confluences in 2007 and the competition for the construction of the premises of the RAM Academy, Casa Aero in 2008.

He participated in the development of the Casablanca Marina master plan with Abdelmoula Imadeddine and the French firms Yves Lion and François Leclerc in 2007, and carried out the Technopolis project in Rabat with the firm Omar Alaoui in 2007. With Abdelmoula Imadeddine, Rachid and Ibrahim-Réda Kerrakchou, Abdelouahed Mountassir creates the “Altlantis” group which is working on the development project of the Rabat “Saphira” corniche (2008). In 2008, Mountassir was elected architect of the year at the Congress of the Order of Architects in Marrakech on June 28, 2008. Currently, Mountassir has several projects on his table, notably the Bab Al Bahr project in Rabat, which he is carrying out. in collaboration with the English firm Norman Foster. He is also working on the development of the "Urba Pôle Gare d'Oujda" project. He has just won the competition for the Central Headquarters of the Party of Istiqlal and the second prize for the competition launched by Al Omrane Casablanca relating to the "Promotion of urban and architectural quality in social housing ”(2010).