Ricardo Bofill designed Muralla Roja after studying the medinas of North Africa — the ancient residential quarters of cities like Fez and Marrakech, where streets narrow to passages, passages narrow to alleys, and the logic of the plan becomes impossible to hold in the mind at once. The rooftop is where that ambition is most fully legible. Shot from above, three color zones converge in a single frame: the cool white of one terrace level, the coral pink of a connecting passage, and the deep red of the walls beyond — each hue a navigational signal in Bofill's system, each casting its own near-black shadow in the Costa Blanca sun. From here, the labyrinth is not an idea. It is a plan.
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