Buildings in Use

This building was built by Moulay Ismail as a grain store to feed his 12 000 horses. The granaries have massive walls and tiny windows, effectively creating cool storage conditions. On entering the building there is a remarkable, and welcome, change in temperature compared to the heat outside, while the small windows, mixed with display lighting, create an inviting and intriguing fall of light. As an effective and well designed building, the

grain store fits its purpose. The grain store and ajacent stables are now a tourist attraction and in recent years have also become a film location, most notably for The Last Temptation of Christ.

It was the coolness of the building, the huge arch openings and the shades of light and shadow, that I found fasinating and wanted to capture as an image. Wanting to show the vastness of the place, I used the arches and large doorways to create a sense of repitition - as if looking into a mirror and seeing an infinite number of images.