Colours, Douja Golf Resort

From the air, it resembles a giant artist’s palette: seven dabs of paint presenting seven vibrant colours. From the ground, the seven dabs of paint become seven colourful oases—blossoming like flowers in the North African desert and collectively offering Marrakech resort living at its best. This is Douja Golf Resort in a theme concept called, appropriately, “Colours.”

The colours of Douja’s seven oases are inspired by the colours of seven Moroccan cities—a different city colour tastefully embellishing each oasis. While Marrakech red dominates all seven oases, comprising the exterior walls and other large structural components, the other colours manifest themselves in rooftop gardens, architectural accents, pavers, fountains, plazas, pools and numerous other hardscape and landscape features. Even the architectural lighting picks up the colour theme, adding a vibrant quality after dusk. The total effect is not just enchanting; it also adds character and personality, helping to establish an exclusive colour identity for each neighborhood. Yet even though each oasis is distinct and unique, they are all clearly related to one another, sharing a common vision.

The largest of the oases of the Douja Golf Resort features the complex’s city center and marketplace. A smoothly curving red wall—a stylized reinterpretation of the Marrakech city wall that symbolically brings a piece of the old city into the resort—marks the entrance to the marketplace, providing a strong sense of transition as guests venture within. Like the old souks of Morocco, as visitors penetrate deeper within the marketplace, they find the spaces becoming increasingly more private and less public. At last, the public bustle of the marketplace gives way to the exclusive luxury and serenity of Douja’s hotel, resort and spa complex—separated from the pink/red marketplace by a sparkling blue pool. At the end of the bridge spanning the pool, Douja’s opulent hotel beckons enticingly, set against a verdant green landscape. The hotel’s orientation provides guests with breathtaking views of the Atlas Mountains to the south and, more immediately, the adjacent island-situated spa suites that float in a sparkling blue lagoon behind the hotel.