Building by the sea: a constraint that drives every choice

In Agadir, a villa exposed to the ocean lives in a permanently salt-laden environment. That constraint does not show in the photographs, but it explains a good part of the technical choices: powder-coated aluminium is preferred because it does not rust, unlike steel, and because a marine-grade coating stands up to sea spray over time. That is precisely why aluminium dominates residential construction along the whole Moroccan Atlantic coast.

Roller shutters across the full width of the bays

The facade is characterised by its large white roller shutters, closed when the photograph was taken, which occupy the full width of the openings. Their tone is deliberately identical to that of the render: with the shutter closed, the facade returns to a smooth, almost monolithic surface.

By the sea, choosing the cyclone-rated version is not excessive caution. Its reinforced guides and stiffened slats stop the curtain from leaving its guide under gusts — a common failure on standard shutters installed on the seafront, and expensive to put right once the box is closed up.

Balustrades that do not cut the view

Both terrace levels are protected by glass balustrades, fitted with a capped profile at the slab edge. This is the quickest variant to install: the profile is screwed onto the finished slab, then a cap covers the fixing. It needs no cast-in recess beforehand, unlike the recessed version.

The visual result is much the same: from the terrace as from inside, the eye passes over the rail and goes straight to the landscape.

The panoramic frame, the centrepiece of the living room

The interior view shows the strongest element of the project: a very wide horizontal fixed light, with an extremely slim black frame, which frames the hills and the vegetation like a painting. Set among the pale timber of the room, it acts exactly as a composed opening.

This type of fixed light asks for little — no hardware, no leaf seals — but everything comes down to the slenderness of the outer frame and to controlling the weight of the glazing. Too thick a profile and the effect is lost; badly packed glazing and the frame will move over time.

The extras not to forget when pricing

On this type of villa, three items come back systematically during the works: shutter motorisation, the internal staircase balustrade, and the covering over the upper terrace. Anticipating them at quotation stage avoids rework and keeps the finishes consistent from one package to the next. The Oscar Aluminium technical team supports fabricators through this full pricing stage.