Room 00 — Gallery of Origins
The museum of software craftsmanship · Azrou, Morocco
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The museum begins
This museum has no walls — only craft.
No photographs — the real thing. The live builds hang on the wall, each running exactly as it runs on the internet; the nearest one first.
Warming up
Pick any door — the wall answers live
A live build — real HTML, real server, real hand. The frame forgets nothing you do.
Every door above stays open: the builds keep running after the exhibition ends, which is the only honest way to end.
Every museum has a founding story. This one is four steps, and they all lead to the same place: an idea, made real.
It started with a question: what can software actually do?
The question became craft — Java, web systems, and the patience to make them correct.
Craft became commissions: live products, client sites, a university platform.
And now the work is one thing — turning an idea into something real, end to end.
Open to work
Concept → architecture → development → experience → deployment. One person carrying the whole build — so nothing gets lost in translation.
Founded in Azrou
Kiln · 2020 — present
“The water is quiet, but it is the reason the courtyard is alive.”
The grammar of the workshop
Architecture
Every tile is cut to a plan before it is glazed. Every feature is designed as a system before a line is written.
Components
One star, eight points, a thousand compositions. One primitive, reused with discipline, becomes a whole building.
Systems
The master repeats a pattern until it stops being decoration and becomes structure. Rendered once, reused everywhere.
Consistency
A pattern that breaks on one side ruins the wall. State, roles and interfaces must answer the same way every time.
Information
The star governs the tile, the tile governs the wall. Typography and data follow the same rule: one voice leads.
Correctness
A tile off by a millimetre breaks the whole motif. A nullable field, a wrong status, a race — the motif breaks too.
Craft
Zellige cannot be rushed; neither can good software. The kiln fires at its own temperature. The types compile when they are right.
Four disciplines, practised like crafts — because systems are only as strong as the hands that cut them.
The load-bearing walls. Spring Boot systems with real teeth — authentication, authorization, business rules and state machines that never guess.
The structure that holds the whole building up.
The rooms visitors walk through. TypeScript-strict, server-first frontends — fast by default, accessible always, and only beautiful at the end.
The rooms the visitors walk through.
The locks on every door. Linux, deployment, rate limits, headers, hardening — the invisible discipline that keeps what is built from falling.
The locks, the keys, the night guard.
The glazed walls. Three.js scenes, GSAP choreography, scroll that reads like a tour — every frame earns its place or leaves the room.
The glaze that catches the light.
The Loom — 01 · Material
Close to the wool. Fibre by fibre, thread by thread — this is where a build begins: the careful, dull, necessary work before the pattern can hold.
Six accessions, curated — real builds only. The flagship hangs first, the web builds fill the arcade.
A complete enterprise web application for university–company partnership: a Spring Boot backend with role-based access control, state machines for every workflow, and three different organisations under one roof.
A palace hotel in the Atlas, digitised: an ambient WebGL room the visitor can orbit, a gallery that walks like a corridor, and an image budget held tight enough for valley bandwidth.
An equipment rental platform that started as a hobby and became a live product — renting, payments and accounts, shipped for real and open to the public.
The shelves — live client builds
The deep exhibit: WISLA — enterprise web application, backend engineering. The lights go down; the details come out.
The deep exhibit
WISLA is a full software system, architected and shipped end to end. The backend is Spring Boot with Spring Security at the gate: companies, faculties and students each hold a role, and every screen asks who is looking before it renders. Academic email verification opens the door; explicit state machines drive internships, applications and partnership agreements from draft to done; JPA over MySQL keeps the whole archive consistent. A CV snapshot freezes each application in time, so what the faculty reviewed is exactly what the company receives. Verified with a grade of 19/20.
Field notes — three problems, three decisions
Companies, faculties and students share one platform, but nothing about their day looks the same.
Role-based access control with per-role views — authorization is resolved against the authenticated principal on every request.
Internships, applications and partnership agreements pass through approval chains; a record must never be in two places.
Explicit state machines for every flow — status is a resolved fact, not a guess, and transitions are the only way to move.
Only real academic addresses should pass through the gate of the university system.
Academic email verification before the first login, enforced server-side at registration.
One platform, three keys to the door
Publishes internships and offers, reviews applications, manages partnerships.
Validates students, supervises internships, approves the chain of agreements.
Owns a dashboard, applies to offers, follows every application to its state.
One Spring Boot spine. Three role-shaped dashboards. Every request answers to Spring Security before it answers to the data.
Grade
19/20
Organisations
3 roles
Backend
Spring Boot
Store
MySQL · JPA
Frames from the field
Room 06 — Threshold
Let's turn it into something real.
The visitors' book
Open to work — Azrou, MoroccoOr find the keeper directly
hello@akramrihani.comFrom one idea to one shipped thing — concept, architecture, code, experience, deployment. The whole building, under one roof.
The exhibition has ended — the door stays open.
Akram Rihani — built in Azrou · 2026
