Consisting of Pastry shop and café in ground floor and Gastronomic restaurant in first floor. The design is inspired by the packaging ribbons of cake boxes; the architect created a double skin facade of an intense white, light and see-through; thus, providing to glazed interior spaces a protection from direct sun rays. The horizontal blades which envelop the 3 main facades rotate at 90 degrees depending on intimacy and sun orientation. During the night, a dynamic lighting composed of about a hundred of Led ribbons animate the facade with color changing scenarios.
Lotfi Sidirahal is graduated from Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture (Paris, France), where he later taught as an assistant professor. He is also an Urban Planner graduated from the Urban Geography Laboratory of Paris X University. He was a Partner at the design agency "Nebka" in Paris, specialized in luxury retail design with clients such as Kenzo, Armani, Clarins, Guerlain, etc… Lotfi Sidirahal is founder of “Pod Architecture” a design studio based in Paris, Casablanca, and Dubai, that he still manages today. His pioneering projects have earned him several exhibitions in various museums and contemporary art centers as Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, the Vitra Design Museum in Berlin, Kunsthaus Graz in Austria, Fundacion Canal in Madrid, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in Boston, Hangaram Design Museum in Seoul, etc… He was awarded amongst the 40 best Architects by the “Borromini Awards" in Rome in 2001, and published in a specially issued book entitled "New generation of International Architecture", by Skira Editions. Lotfi Sidirahal does not consider architecture as limited to the building concept, but rather the art of creating space regardless of their physical or virtual nature, and whatever its scale.
GAPI is a luxury catering company based in Casablanca. Since its creation in 1997, GAPI is continuously innovating in the world of Catering and gastronomy. Rewarded for its mastery of decoration in the Events Exhibition in 2011, GAPI inaugurates today its "Villa" designed by Lotfi Sidirahal to present its gourmet and original creations.