Jestico + Whiles to design Zanzibar hotel resort.

Architecture and interior design practice Jestico + Whiles has been appointed to design a new hotel resort for RSJ Private Equity, on the island of Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania.

Jestico + Whiles' proposal is both ecologically and socially responsive, offering high-quality accommodation that responds to the local context.

Due to the limited infrastructure on the island and its need for self-sufficiency, Jestico + Whiles has created an ‘off-grid' resort.

The Uzuri Hotel Resort, anticipated to open in early 2016, will be a village resort including 60 individual cabanas and five larger villas, together with restaurants, bars, yoga, meditation spaces and massage cabanas.

The cabanas will make use of shade and sea breeze to help create a natural ventilation system within the hotel interiors. Rain water will be harvested and two wells will be built on site to pump salty water into a desalination plant, supplying clean, fresh water to the whole resort.

Jestico + Whiles' design for the resort will make it the first hospitality scheme of its kind on Zanzibar.


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