I design buildings for hot climates and write code to automate environmental calculations.
I am a twenty year old third year architecture student based in Marrakech. Most of my work looks at building in extreme desert heat, repairing historic masonry courtyards, and creating software tools that help architects test solar geometry and thermal mass.
Why Climate Dictates Everything
In Morocco the sun does not leave room for mistakes. If you design a building with unshaded glass in the desert, you end up with an unlivable space by eleven in the morning. A lot of modern projects copy European glass facades that rely on heavy air conditioning to stay cool. I think that is the wrong way to build here.
Before air conditioning existed, local builders used thick rammed earth and underground spaces to stay cool. The earth stays around eighteen degrees even when the air outside hits forty four. My goal is to take those basic principles and combine them with modern parametric scripts so we can test overhangs, shade patterns, and air movement before pouring any concrete.
Dig before you build
Excavating into limestone gives you natural thermal cooling. Instead of building upward into hot desert wind, going underground keeps indoor temperatures stable.
Courtyards as natural coolers
Traditional riad courtyards pull cool air down at night and let hot air rise during the day. Adding lightweight moving wood louvers gives old houses modern ventilation without damaging the old brick walls.
Build your own software
Instead of relying only on default architectural software, I write web tools and scripts to test solar angles, radiation, and airflow. The current public toolset is intentionally small and practical: Meridian Web for climate diagram extraction, and Lumen for fast local file search and environmental inquiry. I only publish tools when they are directly useful to a project decision, not as filler.
A web interface for EPW-based study, diagram extraction, and local climate comparison.
A local desktop utility for quick file search and environmental data retrieval.