SAMA Architects Inc.

What SAMA Architects Inc. does

SAMA Architects Inc. (legal name: SAMA ARCHITECTES) is a privately held architecture, urban planning, and design studio founded in 2015 and headquartered in Rabat, Morocco. The firm delivers end-to-end architectural services across three integrated lines: Architecture & Design (residential, civic, healthcare, educational, hospitality, retail, office, and mixed-use buildings), Concepts & Ideas (conceptual development and design ideation), and Research and Creativity (research-driven design with cultural sensitivity). It also offers urban planning services including housing estates and mixed-use developments. The studio is led by founder Samir Khaldoun alongside co-founder Malika Nassif.

The firm's underlying technology is conventional architectural and urban-planning design practice, with no proprietary software, AI/ML capability, patents, or platform offering evidenced. It has no app, no API, no integrations, and no listed technology stack beyond standard design tools. Its brand reputation is built on five documented architectural competition wins between 2015 and 2017 across courthouse, university, health, and recreational facility categories.

SAMA's business model is project-based, one-time-fee design services secured primarily through architectural competitions and direct commissions. Its customer base is concentrated in the Moroccan public sector, with at least nine named government and quasi-government clients including the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Higher Education, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Habous & Islamic Affairs, ONDA, OFPPT, and multiple provincial authorities. A secondary private residential segment exists but is not quantified. Pricing is quote-based and project-specific, dependent on scope, complexity, and surface area, and is not publicly disclosed. The go-to-market motion is direct enterprise engagement from a single Rabat studio, marketed via a portfolio website and social media channels.

Name

SAMA Architects Inc.

Legal name

SAMA ARCHITECTES

Website

https://samaarchitectes.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Short description

SAMA Architects Inc. is a privately held architecture, urban planning, and design studio founded in 2015 in Rabat, Morocco, serving Moroccan government ministries, provincial authorities, and private clients with civic, institutional, residential, healthcare, and educational projects.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Design Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (54131), Interior Design Services (541410)

akta.pro primary industry

Architectural Design Services (BPAHAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Interior Design Services (BPAHAKAB)

Keywords

• Architectural design services
• Urban planning services
• Interior design studio
• Civic building design
• Residential architecture

Headquarters

HQ city

Rabat

HQ country

Morocco

HQ region

Africa

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Architectural Design Services: Project-based architectural design services for civic, residential, healthcare, educational, and commercial buildings. Revenue is generated through design fees for commissioned projects ranging from courthouses, universities, health centers, to residential villas.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

SAMA Architects is a Rabat-based architecture, urban planning, and interior design studio that delivers full-lifecycle design services spanning concept development, research, and execution across residential, civic, healthcare, judicial, and educational building types. The studio structures its offer around three practice pillars — Architecture & Design, Concepts & Ideas, and Research and Creativity — and secures much of its work through architectural competitions commissioned by Moroccan public institutions. Its output includes private villas, court houses, health centers, headquarters, and territorial master plans.

Product overview

SAMA ARCHITECTES is an architecture, urban planning, and design studio offering three integrated service lines: Architecture & Design Services (covering residential, civic, healthcare, educational, hospitality, retail, and office projects), Concepts & Ideas (conceptual development and design ideation), and Research and Creativity (research-driven innovation with cultural sensitivity). The studio specializes in distinctive architectural solutions through competition-winning projects including courthouses, universities, health centers, residential villas, and urban planning developments across Morocco.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Architecture & Design Full-lifecycle architectural design services covering concept, development, and execution for residential villas, civic buildings, courts, health centers, and other building typologies, delivered to Moroccan public institutions and private clients.
• Concepts & Ideas Concept-stage design service delivering the early architectural narrative, parti, and idea development for projects before they move into detailed design, used by clients commissioning new buildings and competition entries.
• Research and Creativity Research-led creative design exploration service that combines cultural, contextual, and typological research with design experimentation to inform architectural and urban proposals.
• Urban Planning Urban planning services covering territorial and site-scale planning for public and private clients, including territorial collectivities headquarters and broader master planning briefs in Morocco.

Named customers9 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Benoy: International architecture studio focused on commercial, retail, hospitality, and mixed-use development. Comparable to SAMA in delivering mixed-use urban and commercial projects alongside civic work for developers and institutions.
• Gensler: Large global design and architecture firm delivering office, civic, healthcare, education, and mixed-use projects. Comparable to SAMA in the institutional and commercial project categories it serves, but operates at vastly larger scale and across multiple regions.
• Foster + Partners: Global architecture practice covering civic, cultural, commercial and institutional projects at scale. Comparable to SAMA in that both deliver architecture and urban planning services for high-profile public and institutional clients, but Foster operates across many geographies and at a far larger project scale.
• Zaha Hadid Architects: Internationally renowned architecture studio recognized for distinctive, competition-winning institutional and cultural buildings. Comparable to SAMA in producing visually distinctive civic and cultural works via design competition, though at a global scale and brand tier well above SAMA.
• Snøhetta: Architecture and design practice working across cultural, civic, education, and urban-planning projects, with strong competition-winning credentials. Comparable to SAMA in the mix of civic, cultural, and education project types it delivers for public-sector clients.
• HOK: Global architecture firm with significant civic, healthcare, education, and government-sector practices. Comparable to SAMA in serving public-sector institutional clients across justice, health, and education, but at enterprise scale.
• Grimshaw: Architecture practice with a strong transport, civic, and education portfolio including airports and public infrastructure. Directly comparable to SAMA's work on the Rabat-Sale Airport control tower and government civic projects, though at much broader international scale.
• RMJM: International architecture practice with a long heritage in civic, education, healthcare, and transport projects and a deep Middle East / North Africa presence. Comparable to SAMA in target project types (courthouses, universities, civic buildings) and in operating across MENA.

Regional players

• Killa Design: Dubai-based architecture studio recognized for distinctive cultural, civic, and commercial buildings across the MENA region. Comparable to SAMA as a design-led MENA studio winning institutional and commercial commissions, though focused on the Gulf rather than North Africa.
• Dabbagh Architects: Saudi Arabian architecture practice delivering cultural, civic, education, and residential projects. Comparable to SAMA in operating as a regional architecture studio serving government and institutional clients across multiple building typologies in MENA.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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