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AÏT BEKKA:
Around the oasis

Entrance to a house in Ait Boukka, Morocco
There is a striking simplicity to the architecture of Aît Boukka, no decorations, no deviations, few colours — everything is oriented around one storey houses without windows. If you're lucky you get invited into a house to look around.
Houses here start on the ground, they are made from the same material as the soil, and there is only a thin line marking the change from nature to man made dwellings.

Downtown Ait Bekka

A mosque is given colour, which together with its height, is the only thing that clearly differs it from the modesty of the rest of Aït Bekka.

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