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Frame Awards 2020: our jury on the winners How Uwe Brückner choreographs space Why the future of co-working is suburban Margrethe Odgaard unpacks cultural colour codes Three proposals for on-the-go hospitality ISSUE 134 MAY — JUN 2020

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OPPOSITE The bungalows that comprise Mozambique’s luxury resort Kisawa Sanctuary will include 3D-printed components made using a sand-andseawater mortar drawn from the surrounding beaches.

Building on site should not always be a deterrent however, especially where there is an opportunity to take advantage of local materials and craft traditions. Kisawa Sanctuary, a luxury resort due to open this year on Benguerra Island, just off the East Coast of Mozambique, has literally appeared out of the ground. The development mixes new technology with more ancient forms of manufacturing. The bungalows that make up the resort contain components that have been 3D-printed using a sand-and-seawater mortar drawn from the surrounding beaches, before being fitted with Mozambican weaving, thatching, carpentry and textiles. ‘We’ve used design as a tool, not as a style, to ensure Kisawa is integrated, culturally and environmentally to Mozambique,’ developer and entrepreneur Nina Flohr tells GQ. A similar symbiosis of old and new was employed in the creation of a series of holiday villas by Belgian practices Polo Architects and Going East on the rugged, windswept terrain of São Vicente, in Cape Verde. The beautiful rocky landscape is thus far little visited by tourists, who could be vital to reenergizing the local economy and its community of artisans.

‘The last thing we wanted to construct here was this alienating type of luxury holiday enclave in a relatively poor country,’ says Polo Architects founder Patrick Lootens. As such, the 12 contemporary villas for Barefoot Luxury are outfitted internally with locally made furniture and decorative items purchased from the markets of the local town, Mindelo. Crucially, each is clad in block work made from local stone that matches the colour and patterns of the surrounding cliffs. The result is a trompe l’oeil effect that sees their angular forms completely absorbed into the landscape.

PAGE 164 In Cape Verde, Belgian practices Polo Architects and Going East clad a series of holiday villas in local stone, making them blend into the surrounding landscape.

PAGE 165 The 12 contemporary villas for Barefoot Luxury are outfitted with locally made furniture and decorative items purchased from local markets.

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