Sorento Mahe Seychelles
Built on a steep hillside, the spaces are planned around a sequence of inner courtyard gardens on three levels; a steppingstone pond and a sky-shaft garden at the entrance level; a family room, bedrooms, vertical gardens and planter courtyard at mid-level; and a living room, in & out door dining area, green-roof terrace, swimming pool and gardens on the top level. The rooms also enjoy a variety of outlooks toward the Indian Ocean horizon to the front, garden and hillside woodlands to the sides, and mountains to the rear.
Award: International Property Awards 2020 Best Architecture Single Residence Seychelles
Mahe Seychelles
In collaboration with Winch Design
Architectural Design Collaboration, Technical Execution & Site Supervision of a luxury resort hotel and a new marina.
Awards: Winner of AHEAD MEA Hospitality Experience & Design 2021 Suite Award
Petite Anse Mahe Seychelles
Principle Executive Architects in association with AREA Architects Singapore
Architectural Design collaboration, Technical Execution & Site Supervision of a new five-star resort hotel consisting of 65 standard suites and 26 residential villas
Awards: Hospitality Design magazine Awards 2010
Winner of Resort Award & Luxury/Upscale Guestroom Award
La Misere Mahe Seychelles
Design & supervision of a new private residential villa
Anse Bazarka Mahe Seychelles
Design & supervision of a new one bedroom private residence
Fregate Island Seychelles
Design & supervision of a Health Spa and landscape garden
Awards: Conde Nast Spa Awards 2005
Voted 2nd best Spa in Africa, Middle East & Indian Ocean
La Misere Mahe Seychelles
Design & supervision of a new private residential villa
Award: Luxury Lifestyle Awards 2022
Best Luxury Architecture Residential Development Seychelles
Providence Mahe Seychelles
Design & supervision of a new 20-unit development of serviced apartments. The bedrooms form the solids of the building and the living-dining rooms open up to become semi-outdoor cross-ventilated living spaces forming a balcony onto the communal pool and garden.
Award: International Property Awards 2015 Best Architecture Multiple Residence Seychelles
Mie Japan
In collaboration with Space Menu Lab
The client brief asked for a house without external windows but all rooms to be filled with light throughout the day; a private boundary visually detached but directly linked to the outside world. The spaces are designed around three courtyards where the roof/ceiling acts to reflect, refract, filter and disperse the ever-changing light source throughout the day and the seasons.
Beau Vallon Bay Seychelles
Design & supervision of a new beach cocktail bar
Awards: Gobal Winner 2021 World Luxury Travel Awards
Au Cap Mahe Seychelles
Architectural reconfiguration & Interior Design of an existing private residence
La Misere Mahe Seychelles
Masterplan, Infrastructure design & supervision of a new estate development
Award: International Property Awards 2015 Residential Development Highly Commended
ADD.locus represents Republic of Seychelles’ first time contribution to the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2016 at the Palazzo Michiel overlooking the Grand Canal
La Misere Mahe Seychelles
The villa, in a private residential estate in the hills of Mahe, uses a generous infinity edge swimming pool to connect to the distant ocean and landscape. The villa draws upon the architectural heritage of the island to create a contemporary yet rooted home.
Award: International Property Awards 2015 Best Architecture Single Residence Seychelles
Sans Souci Mahe Seychelles
The house recalls some key elements of the traditional architecture of the islands; steep roofs, louvered shutters, dormer windows and a raised plinth. After years of ageing and developing a patina only possible in the tropics, a building with a unique and archaic presence emerges.
La Digue Island Seychelles
Design & supervision of a new beach-front resort hotel; guest chalets, restaurant, swimming pool & landscaping
Victoria Mahe Seychelles
Design & supervision of nine nos. of one bedroom apartment building
Petite Anse Mahe Seychelles
Design & supervision of a new hotel staff housing complex
Bel Ombre Mahe Seychelles
The daily and seasonal changes mediates the external interior and internal exterior boundaries. The living spaces occupy the horizontal plane made from local hardwood, the surrounding boulders and nature act as the walls and the terracotta tile roof gives shelter from the rain.
Tokyo Japan
In collaboration with Space Menu Lab
Design & supervision of a new four-storey private residence
Fregate Island Seychelles
Design & supervision of Guest Villa Extensions with private swimming pools
Petit Paris Mahe Seychelles
Design & supervision of new two-apartment blocks
Fregate Private Seychelles
Part of the Rock Spa on a remote and exclusive resort, the space highlights the paradox of the desire to exercise indoors in such a pristine environment. Through a frameless glass wall, a Jurassic, picture-perfect, landscape untouched by man is contemplated.
La Misere Mahe Seychelles
Design & supervision of a new private residential villa
Mie Japan
In association with Shimizu Corporation
Design of a new private residence
Praslin Island Seychelles
Design & supervision of a new beach-front resort hotel; pavilion-style guest suites, restaurant, beach-side swimming pool & landscaping
Award: International Hotel Awards 2013-14 Best Seychelles/ Africa / International Small Hotel Award
Botanica Estate Mahe Seychelles
Design, refurbishment & supervision of a traditional building into a club house
Reef Estate Mahe Seychelles
Refurbishment, design & supervision of a private residence including a new swimming pool.
New Port Mahe Seychelles
Design & supervision of the first barrier-free retail shopping centre in Seychelles
The building is experienced as a continuous ramped street-scape of shops, supermarket, daily market, cafe, exhibition space, bar, restaurant and cinema. The concrete ramped structure works as a scale mediator between exterior and interior contexts; framing the mountains, the warehouse buildings, the port, the ocean and at the same time protecting the familiar scale of the shops and food stores.
Providence Seychelles
Design and supervision of a new HQ; offices, showroom, bartender training facility, private cellars & warehouse
Providence Mahe Seychelles
Design & supervision of a new HQ; office & workshops
Providence Mahe Seychelles
Design & supervision of a new HQ; office & warehouse
Round Island Resort
Executive Architects for a private island resort
London UK
Design & refurbishment of a period apartment
La Misere Seychelles
Design & supervision of a new private residence
Bel Ombre Mahe Seychelles
Design & supervision of a private residence
Providence Mahe Seychelles
Interior design & supervision of offices and showroom
Providence Mahe Seychelles
Design & supervision of a new industrial warehouse and office. The building re-interprets the common breeze-block, traditionally used as an economical material for schools and other institutional buildings. The interplay between the solids and the voids results in a dematerialization of the building, lending it a lace-like quality, a reminder of the pattern-play on traditional Seychelles buildings.
Award: AYA2 2000 Focus Country Young Architects award
Providence Mahe Seychelles
Design & supervision of a new HQ building and showrooms
Roche Caiman Mahe Seychelles
Design & supervision of a new HQ building & accommodation
Kyoto Japan
In collaboration with Plankton Design
Design, production, supervision & organizations of new seating furniture for public & private areas of the college
Osona Village Okahandja Namibia Africa
Design of 1-, 2- & 3-bedroom affordable housing units
Kampala Uganda East Africa
In collaboration with j.e Nsubuga & Associates
Lead Design Architect for a new 27-unit 1-3-bedroom apartment complex
La Plaine St Andre Mahe Seychelles
Design & supervision of the distilleries’ gift shop interior, a new cellar & an outdoor rum bar shack
London UK
In collaboration with Studio Lasso London
Category: Show Gardens
Design collaboration & supervision of a landscape show garden
Award: Silver Flora Medal
House LND La Digue
Design & supervision of a new private residential home
Fregate Island Private Seychelles
Design & supervision of a new swimming pool
Gazipasa Turkey
In collaboration with Space Menu Lab
Design proposal for a new sea-side resort hotel
Providence Seychelles
Design & supervision of an Opticians’ practise and shop
Design of a parade float for the Seychelles Carnival
Trois Freres Distilleries, a sponsor of the Seychelles National Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2016, produced a special edition of their Takamaka St. Andre Rum to celebrate the special occasion
Design proposal & testing of a prototype solar-powered exterior light furniture. The structure employs a bamboo weaving technique traditionally used for fish traps
Yamagata Japan
In collaboration with Space Menu Lab
Design proposal for a new art warehouse gallery
Helsinki Finland
In collaboration with Space Menu Lab
Design proposal for the new Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki
Surrey United Kingdom
Locus Design London
Interior Design and Furniture (FF&E) for this light and spacious ‘contemporary’ family home located in the beautiful countryside just outside London.
Wiltshire United Kingdom
Locus Design London
Interior Design and Furniture (FF&E) for this grand ‘classical ’ family home located on a large private estate in the picturesque countryside of Wiltshire
Les Canelles Mahe Seychelles
Design & supervision of a private residence
Eden Island Seychelles
Design & supervision of a new retail shop
Glacis Mahe Seychelles
Design & supervision of a new twenty-one 2/3 bedroom self-servicing chalet-development and an ocean side swimming pool
Victoria Mahe Seychelles
Interior design proposal for a new information centre
