Africa

Europe 40 Under 40 laureates Öznur Pınar Çer and Danilo Petta of Mask Architects have presented the plans for the world’s first Eco-Tourism-based Baobab Luxury Safari Resort in Africa which produces its own water autonomously by using air to water through technology that is powered by transparent solar device-covered curtain glass.

The aim of the project is not only to create a unique luxury residence, but also to seek innovative, sustainable, and environmental solutions to the problems based on constructive and restorative project generation processes arising from the geological, climatic, and environmental factors in which the project is located.

With this project, our goal is to make the most basic need of water accessible rather than a luxury experience and to prevent hunger, thirst, and the diseases and deaths its causes. 

Designers say; water sources would not be a luxury reserved for the people; water is the source of life for all people.

It is our mission to provide a unique experience to users by blending beautiful, attractive, and smart designs with technology and to respond to the needs of users living in the region.

The water needed in Africa has turned into a luxury. Water should not be a luxury and should be accessible to everyone.

With this project, we wanted to contribute to communities that need water in Africa. This versatile project has been designed to meet the needs of all segments.” 

We envision our concept project to help the local communities in Africa that are remote and secluded from any infrastructure and amenities.

With this project, the architects want to help build infrastructure and community, agriculture, manufacturing, and water sourcing.

The team wants to turn this into an experience where people from all over the world can come on a working holiday, to be able to give back to the community and help the local communities.

The water needed in Africa has turned into a luxury.

Water should not be a luxury and should be accessible to everyone.

The structure contributes to the communities that are in need of water. 

From small settlements to large towns and cities, the architects are able to build eco-settlements of the future to help with the growing issues in Africa with poverty, housing, jobs, agriculture, infrastructure, energy, health, and innovation.

The architects can build up sustainable settlements and help erase all the issues and start building a better future for the locals.  

Integrating tourism into our planning of settlements is important because it allows people to support the local economies and involve the locals in the project.

This will allow building environmental awareness and how to minimize the impact by raising funds and providing direct financial benefits for conservation while consulting stakeholders and the public interest.

Providing financial benefits and power to the local people will bring around a lot of interest and growth.

It will help us support human rights and create democratic movements that are thinking about the future and the sustainability of the future.  

The aim is to build an eco-friendly community using the latest technologies to help with sourcing green energy.

Additionally, Mask Architects have integrated technology that will allow us to source water from the air.

Air to Water technology is integrated into each multi-modular living lodge structure.

Each multi-modular living lodge has its own technology to produce water from humidity and optimized dehumidification techniques to extract and condense moisture in the air to produce healthy, purified drinking.

Self-sustaining multi-modular lodges’ curtain glass is covered by transparent solar panels which can produce electricity by themselves.

While offering a luxury and unique experience to the users, at the same time, the autonomously produced water network will be provided to the people who are struggling with thirst in Africa.

Thanks to the air filters placed inside the wooden-covered aluminum poles that parametrically surround the facade of each module will let air intake enter into these linear channels.

The channels which are integrated into the linear lattice stripes structure extract humidity from the air which is filtered, condensed and then processed through an additional multi-step filtration system in the system room which is located at +1.50 level; producing “purified” great tasting water.

Thanks to letting the local air from channels which are located at the exterior facades of each module produce a water is a water-capturing system that absorbs moisture from the air and converts it into drinking water using condensation and solar energy technology.

Air is pulled by linear channels which are located at the center of aluminum lattice stripes on the façade of lodges.

Each linear strip has its own filter and local air then passes through these filters.

Three-Dimensional Multilayer Vertical Filament Meshes are integrated into the channel at 45 degrees to capture water drops.

Thanks to the slope of the channel, water droplets will pass through certain filtering processes and will be collected in the tank located at the center and foundation of the module.

When the amount of water in the water tank located at the central foundation of each module reaches a certain amount, the water collected from the air will be transmitted to the areas needed in Africa as a network.

Named Baobab Safari Lodges will be enclosed in a self-sufficient community where there will be land to grow fruits, and vegetables, to source water, for farming and animals, and facilities to make and sell food such as cheese, bread, meat, and milk.

The purpose is to build a community that can provide for and feeds the surrounding communities which are starving and in poverty.

During the construction process, the architects will give work to the locals as well in agriculture and manufacturing and build a working community working alongside people who have traveled from around the world. 

The whole eco-lodge concept can be delivered in any remote area, and be the start to building self-sufficient communities.

The structures are designed to be expandable and flexible to any situation and terrain.

The project is affordable, scalable, and adaptable.

Using resources sustainably, the architects aim to reduce the impact of over-consumption and waste.

Maintaining biodiversity within the settlements, binding nature and landscape together with wildlife. 

The Baobab Luxury Safari Resort is a conceptual design project that is environmentally friendly and creates a luxury safari camping experience inspired by Baobab trees. 

Project: BAOBAB Luxury Safari Resort
Architects: Mask Architects S.r.l.s
Lead Architects: Öznur Pınar Çer and Danilo Petta