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Dar El Mouhit
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About · دار المحيط

The house
of the sea

A riad in the medina of Salé,
just a breath away from the Atlantic.

The project

A house given
back to the medina

Dar El Mouhit grows out of the restoration of an old riad in the medina of Salé. A courtyard house, with low thresholds and lime-washed walls, that we are returning to its first purpose: to welcome.

The work moves at the pace of the crafts — zellige laid by hand, tadelakt smoothed with stone, carved cedar, ironwork taken up workshop by workshop. Nothing is veneered: we repair, we extend, we keep faith with the original gesture.

Opening planned for 2027. Until then, the house remakes itself patiently, faithful to what it has always been.

Ruelle de la médina de Salé © Medina Factory
دار المحيط

A courtyard house in old Salé, restored craft by craft.

The vision

Anchored
in the medina

Why Salé? Because here the medina has stayed alive.

Its crafts — weaving, leatherwork, pottery — existed before tourism and carry on without it. It is a medina that works, and that lets itself be watched living. We did not want to build beside it, but inside it.

A riad anchored in its medina,
not an uprooted hotel.

Dar El Mouhit is not meant to be an enclave. We want a house that opens onto its alley, that buys from its neighbours, that speaks the language of the quarter. And — a rare trait for a Moroccan riad — a house turned toward the Atlantic: the open sea is in the air, in the morning light, in the very name of the place.

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