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PROJECTS

Garonga Tented Camp

Project details: Full camp design of Tensile Fabric luxury tented lodge, Makalali Game Reserve. 
Location:
 Limpopo | South Africa
Project Type: Hospitality
Date:
 2020

Franschhoek House

Project details: 1000m2 Luxury home in Fransche Hoek Estate, contemporary rural aesthetic based on the traditional werf style farmhouse
Location:
 Franschhoek | South Africa
Project Type: Residential 
Date: 2018

Nayamatusi

Project details: Unusual double-storey thatch design solution set amongst mahogany trees in Mana Pools.
Location: Mana Pools | Zimbabwe
Project Type: Hospitality
Date: 2017

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Zambezi House

Project details: Zambezi House – Restaurant on the Zambezi, Victoria Falls, originally designed as traditional build courtyard building around a cluster of trees, but then converted to a containerised solution, not often one negotiates hipp0 footprints at a site meeting!
Location: Victoria Falls | Zimbabwe
Project type: 
Hospitality venue
Date: 2017

Lemala Nanyuki

Project details: Full camp design of Tensile Fabric luxury tented lodge, including 13 sleeper units, lounge, dining, kitchen, spa, & swimming pool
Location: 
Serengeti, Tanzania
Project
 Type: Lodge
Date: 2017 

Benguerra

Project details: Design of a sail structure over converted from a traditional dhow beach bar
Location: Benguerra Island | Mozambique
Project type: Hospitality
Date:
 2019

Earl Street Hout Bay

Project details: 4 House subdivision development in Hout Bay
Location: Hout Bay
Project type: 
Residential Development
Date: 
2017

Thorn Tree River Lodge

Project details: Tented and lightweight building solution
Location: Livingstone, Zambia
Project Partners: Fox Brown
Project Type: Luxury Lodge
Date: 2017

Feldhausen Villas

Project details: Subdivision of 900m2 erf into 3 luxury semi-detached houses
Location: Newlands | Cape Town
Project type: Residential complex
Date: 2016

Somalisa &
Somalisa Acacia

Project Details: Co-designed and supplied a tensile fabric luxury ‘tented’ lodge in Hwange National Park.
Location: 
 Hwange National Park  | Zimbabwe
Project type: Lodge
Date: 2016

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Kelderhof Estate
& Lifestyle Centre

Lifestyle Centre (2015): Functions, activities, restaurant, bar braai area, swimming pool.
Guard House + Estate Entrance (2008): Gabion Walled Structures in grey blue stone with cantilvered concrete roofs.
Multiple House Designs (2008 – 2021): 60+ homes

Hout Bay Module

Project details: A compact 2nd dwelling unit built with lightweight building technologies, including plastic bottle walling.  The slope of the site invited an efficient split level solution that created a 1½ volume living area with a room adjacent to a full bedroom and bathroom beneath a mezzanine utility space.
Location: Cape Town Year: 2013


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Mombo Lodge | Botswana

Project details: 
Mombo Concept Pitch – competition entry for the redevelopment of Mombo Luxury Lodge, Okavango Delta.
Location: Botswana
Date: 2015

 


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Rwanda Bisate

Project details:
Competition entry for new Bisate Luxury Lodge, Rwanda
Location: Rwanda
Date: 2015

 


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