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These A-frame eco-hotel cabins are tucked away in the vineyards of Italy

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Nestled away in the center of Piedmont, Italy, surrounded by vineyards and woodlands is LILELO (Little Leisure Lodges). It includes a group of four adorable wooden cabins. The autonomous cabins are designed by the Paris-based architecture studio Atelier LAVIT. The cabins are inspired by traditional haystacks, creating a triangular silhouette, which is supported by a trunk-like base.

Designer: Atelier LAVIT

The cabins have been elevated off the ground, ensuring they don’t touch it, in an attempt to adopt a sustainable approach. This approach lays an emphasis on energy efficiency and eco-compatibility materiality. The elevated cabins ensure that there is minimal impact on the ground, while also beautifully complementing the sloping topography. The eco-cabins artfully merge with their surrounding, creating the impression that is it at one with nature around it.

The cabins are an attempt on the part of Atelier LAVIT to create a collaboration between architecture and nature. The three cabins function as private suites, while the fourth structure serves more as a common space. It includes a large terrace, a generous kitchen with a massive table. This common structure is a gathering area for guests to sit and chill together, interact and engage with one another, and build conscious connections. Guests of the other three suites can partake in social interactions here.

The three suites feature an open-plan layout, accompanied by a cozy breakfast nook, and stunning views of the surroundings. The beautiful location makes for a great panoramic view from within the rooms. There is an adjacent deck that leads to the sleeping section, and a bathroom that is subtly tucked away at the back of the suite. What’s interesting about the suite is that there is only one door, which leads to the washroom, while the rest of the space is left internationally door-less, creating an open and free-flowing space that holds an air of continuity and consistency. However, the studio managed to gracefully pull this off, without compromising privacy in the least. The suites still hold a distinguished air of privacy and seclusion.  “The lodges weren’t designed as closed volumes from which the openings were subtracted but as a space created by three inclined surfaces, following the Japanese logic of working on layers,” said the studio. The stunning cabins camouflage with nature, creating a peaceful and ethereal space.

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This eco-tourism safari resort in Africa pulls water out of the air using transparent solar devices

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MASK architects designed the world’s first eco-tourism resort that produces its own water from the air. It has been amped with an innovative technology that quite literally pulls moisture from the air, using transparent solar device-covered curtain glass. The safari resort is designed to be a luxurious getaway, but also more than that – it aims to tackle one of the major issues we face today, which is the lack of clean water.

Designer: MASK Architects

Although water should be a necessity, it has now become a luxury, which is quite honestly pretty sad. And this is where the eco-resort swoops in and hopes to provide water to the African communities and villages that face a lack of it. The resort consists of multiple lodges. Each lodge is equipped with solar device-covered curtain glass and amped with technology and dehumidification techniques that produce clean and purified drinking water.

Air filters have been positioned inside wood-covered aluminum poles which are placed around the lodges. These channel air into the fixture, and the air is filtered, condensed, and processed via a multi-step filtration system in the system room. The water is collected in the central tanks, and once it has been collected to a certain level, it is delivered to regions in Africa that suffer from water shortages.

“The idea of creating these luxury eco safari lodges is to be able to bring more people to have interest in wildlife and to experience living in areas secluded and remote with the wildlife,” said MASK architects.

The BAOBAB Safari Lodges are also designed to be self-sustaining. It includes plots to grow fruits and vegetables, as well as produce and sell meat, bread, milk, and cheese. Besides being self-sustaining and sustainable, the lodges have also been luxuriously designed. The huts include a living room, bedroom, working area, a private pool, and a plunge deck amped with an outdoor shower. The huts have been elevated 3.5 meters above the ground, to provide stunning views of the surroundings, and to also provide protection to the wildlife in the area. The lodge is meant to educate the guests on nature and wildlife, and to deepen their understanding of it. The raised huts allow the guests to view the wildlife from above!

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