Terrachidia

✨ We are deeply honored to receive the Ammodo Architecture Award 2025 in recognition of our Oasis Campus Project.
This award means a great deal to us. What began in 2012 as a small initiative by a group of young architects searching for knowledge beyond the academic world has grown into a long-term commitment to learning from —and working alongside— the communities of the oases of southern Morocco.
Thanks to this support from Ammodo, in 2026 we will be able to expand the number of scholarships for young professionals joining our workshops, and to strengthen training programs for master builders and craftswomen in both M’Hamid and Inzerki.
Our aim remains the same: to help safeguard traditional building knowledge, support local craftsmanship, and keep alive the cultural heritage that has shaped these landscapes for generations.
Thank you, Ammodo, for believing in the value of this work —and thank you to all the people and communities who make Oasis Campus possible year after year.
https://www.ammodo-architecture.org/projects/terrachidia-oasis-campus

🤍 OASIS CAMPUS M'HAMID 2019
With the new opportunity to return for a new OASIS CAMPUS in 2026 to the ksar of Ouled Youssef, we recall the restoration works of the marabout shrine of Sidi Abdullah Khalifa. One of the most challenging restoration projects we have undertaken during two Oasis Campus in 2019, thanks to the work of: the local master builders Bouchaib Bourhim, Abdelkader Ahssane, Brahim Banhman, Lahsan Kuidr, Hosine Karoumi and Saaid Gahmini, ten young apprentices from Ouled Youssef itself, our regular partner, the maalem (master builder) Abdelkader Mahassine, the 38 participants coming from different backgrounds and from all around the world, the ArCHIAM team and funding from and .

"The simplicity and delicacy of the shrine’s forms reflect the know-how of the masters who built it over a century ago. The mud, wood and lime covering the domes were skillfully molded so as to create one of the oasis’s finest architectures. Its five stepped paraboloids gleam amid the green of the palm groves and constitute a landmark overlooking the countryside by the turreted walls of the two neighboring ksur."

The marabout is one of the oasis’s finest and most remarkable buildings, as well as a site appreciated and venerated by local people. It is the resting place of the holy man after whom it is named: Sidi Abdullah Khalifa, who is still renowned as he must have been in life as a spiritual guide and healer, especially of mental ailments.

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COME WITH US 🚀 l M’hamid Oasis, where we have been working for more than 14 years, is once again launching the 2026’s workshop cycle.

🌴 Next january we will return to the Ksar of Ouled Youssuf, this time to restore the north gate that leads to the orchards and the wonderful marabout that we restored in 2019. In addition, with the help of the women’s craft cooperatives of the oasis, we will learn how to weave with palm leaves.

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NEW WORKSHOPS COMING 2026I
Take a look at the program for the 3 OASIS CAMPUS taking place next 2026, and tell us which one you want to join..or maybe which oneS ;)?

💚 Come join us, immerse yourself in this learning experience through cultural heritage and be part of a real and useful cooperation project 🌍

✨Registrations open, limited spots !
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If you have any doubts or questions, please don’t hesitate to ask at [email protected]

📢 Registrations almost completed for the next Ich & Figuig 2025!!

You’re still on time to join our team!! Write to us and discover the value of oasis and land-based architecture 🌴

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📢 Registratios OPEN for the next Ich & Figuig 2025!!

This is your workshop...
If you want to be part of a cooperation project
If you want to learn - hands on - how to build with earth
If you want to experience an oasis and understand how this territories can exist
If you want to understand Cultural Landscapes
If you like surprising experiences and different ways to discover new places
If ...

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