Safari Magazine In English
11.01.2019by admin
CALL TO ACTION: Come join Safari, Eleven's latest design and architecture competition and get in with a chance of winning a real life wildlife adventure! Andrea founded Eleven Magazine in 2015 and currently works as its Editor in Chief and Creative Director. (English weather permitting) riding around on his motorcycle avoiding woodland. SAFARI is doing its bit to restore the equilibrium, because in the talent-driven society of today; knowledge is power. SAFARI is not a magazine. It is a concept, the.
Welcome to our 8th international ideas and design competition. For this challenge, we invited the creative comunity to take an architectural safari into one of the wildest, most exciting and beautiful unique corners of Southern Africa: UNESCO’s Matobo National Park in Zimbabwe. In Swahili, the word ‘safari’ means journey, and this is exactly where we went through our competition: a journey into the romance and adventure of the wild, into the customs, local rituals and the beating heart of Africa through your senses. The outcome of this journey? A new super sensory safari lodge concept the likes of which the world has never seen before, nestled in the heart of Matobo’s granite rock formations and mysterious ancient rock paintings.
This competition was run in partnership with award winning safari company. Their world famous lodges are located in some the most fascinating, wild and remote landscapes found in Southern Africa, from Zimbabwe to Botswana and Zambia. The winning team won a week long super sensory safari compliments of and got to experience the adventure of exploring the exhilarating Zimbabwean landscape with some of the worlds best guides. Matobo National Park is a small biosphere pocket south of Zimbabwe’s second largest city Bulawayo. It’s famous for its undulating hills riddled with monolithic granite boulders which hold within them fascinating and mysterious caves filled with ancient Bushmen rock paintings. The park is also a sanctuary for the endangered Black and White Rhino population and is, therefore, a key hub in the conservation efforts of this rare animal. Aside from the rhinos, the park is home to a whole variety of African wildlife.
All in all, made Matobo a magical safari location to dive deep into the natural and cultural wonders Zimbabwe has to offer. The aim of this competition was to imagine a new safari lodge for Matobo: one which blended traditional wildlife adventure activities with new ones linked with culture, tradition and conservation, and one which allows the visitor to experience its unique context fully. We were looking for a super sensory safari lodge, the first one in the world, which uses design as a pivotal part of the experience. How can architecture become a mechanism for experiencing the adventure, magic and romance of a safari in Matobo?
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The creative comunity has responded. * This competition was also run to raise awareness of, a charity which our safari partners run in parallel to their ventures in support of local culture, education and conservation. SOJOURN Erik Knauss & Jacob Southard (USA) The jury winner and the people’s choice of this challenge takes us on a super sensory journey through four sites, each designed to correspond and reflect their changing surrounds. The project respects and integrates itself beautifully into its natural surroundings and takes inspiration from natural forms and structures found locally.
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The design focuses on creating different experiences, views and activities for the user and utilises its surrounding with low lying buildings and natural looking woven observation towers. The design even incorporates a conservation memorial creating awareness for local conservation issues. The project is very well thought out and would be a fantastic place to experience the beauty of Matobo National Park. Regenerative Huts Abhishek Desai (India) This project focuses on the two main aspects of Matobo National Parks, the endangered Rhinos and the granite rocks. Its aim is to create an intimate observatory lodge where guests can secretly interact with the rhinos, while respecting their natural surroundings. The project cleverly dissolves into the park’s rock formations while the traditional beautiful circular structures of the lodges allow for uninterrupted views of the park and its wildlife. Spongebob the movie game pc. The design’s main aim is to allow users to interact with the environment while having as little impact on it as possible.