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Karen Stolzenberg,

Madison, WI; BS Architecture

Contrasting Medinas in Casablanca

These drawings relate representations of socially-constructed space in Casablanca, Morocco. This paring seeks to describe the tension between the traditional urban fabric and a subsequent, planned urban scheme.  The left image illustrates a narrow street in the Old Medina while the right image reveals a street in the New Medina that was deliberately designed to imitate the former, while satisfying French “safety” provisions. These neighborhoods are only separated by several physical miles but assume vastly different meanings even as their forms are related.  These drawings were a part of a greater travel fellowship that studied imposed housing types in Casablanca.