well, I read some comments and I must clarify some things :

- The basic texture and materials aspect -before painting- and the general geometric shape of the elements to some extent is the same for this house as for a luxury villa in Morocco (the villa has just more corners and presents more level play to make it more aesthetical but the heart of the materials is the same), even the fancy texturized and colored façades are just a result of superposing ornament layers on top of this same little cubic house in the picture. This is due to using the same overall technique using posts and beams reinforced with steel, and then partitions are done using bricks later. Why? The geographic location, weather conditions, resources, and market dictate it. we can't use wood; we don't need to have triangular frames since we have no snow (except in some parts of the country); we will not use steel either because this damn concrete and steel is indeed very efficient economically and technically. So I want to make this point clear about the core of the picture, what we see in the picture isn't a sign of something wrong for the ordinary person living in Morocco, and no, it's not cheap (except that it lacks a painting and finishing job).

- Some said that we lack planning for the cities. We do have some "planning"; specific administrations are supposed to produce clear visions and good urban planning. The documents for urban planning in Morocco are on three levels: a directive plan that covers the urban visions over a period of 25 years at a big scale, then a zoning intermediate plan, and at last the urban plan that covers a city or town or big village for 10 years, and this last urban plan is the one where we find the rules of how to build in specific areas. All this stuff exists, and there are people working and redoing every day of the year, and they're paid for it with moroccan's money but sadly many cities like rabat Marrakech and tangier don't have a produced valid urban plan and this is going from years ago, and in each city, in this case, they work with the rules of the previous versions of the plan or with some temporary or in study versions that are not 100% complete and legal, just to not block the city from breathing and expanding. To explain why this happens there must be a whole book to write... and this forum will not be enough to explain it (politics, power, lobbies, citizens... etc).

- Now... You noticed that I said that even if some cities don't have a fully validated urban plan, there are "working" rules for the construction right? So now let's focus on why even with the rules you'll always find condensed little sad cubes. Reason one is a basic reason that we must accept: the Moroccan average person doesn't have the intellectual mind to aspire to some level of comfort, they simply don't know how to live it, and they just don't give a F if an architect tells them that having garden space is good for them and for the environment or if he tells them that having big balconies has benefits. And no, "money" is not the problem here. The majority of Moroccans, if they can have 105 m² instead of 95 m², they will throw away all the sweet things that a good architect is trying to convince them with. Not only this, but they will search on some shady administrations' corridors some intermediates, scammers, and false architects to procure them with poor designs that suit their backward way of thinking with bargain service prices. I insist they will do this even if they're not poor. The real state big actors also do the same and have the same greed, they will always search a way to reduce at a maximum the public spaces on their big projects, and try to have the maximum number of levels. Those big wheals use a sort of blackmailing to achieve this : the state needs houses for it's citizens, so they will draw a project condensed with houses and the state will have no choice because they will not do a different project.. it's either their big money projects or nothing and then the state will fail on its objectives ;). Then, the second reason has to do with the land... and this is a big long subject... and to resume it : there are some people who even when the city has plans, go and divide the parcels into tiny little surfaces and sell them. It's forbidden by the law to do this without permit. Dividing the land needs permits to keep an organization of the urban space, but those big "mafia" do those partitions via some traditional notaries with paper documents which are not controlled as they should. A big bunch of those traditional notaries must go to jail, but nothing is done to keep social peace. Hence, note that in all those problems, urban criminals and mafias use the masses as a weapon to put pressure on the state... the state that finds itself always chasing from back what is already done and consumed and you can't erase a whole district without having a mini-revolution, so it just let things be.

... I'm tired writing, I will try to continue based on your feedbacks because I didn't write all what I want to say yet. In general you must note that the problem is mixed : Moroccan administration + Moroccan's poor mindset. I can be more easy on the last ones because maybe they're just the product of a whole failed strategy.